Sustainable Building

Social Housing Tenants Warm to Kemper System Roofing Solution

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Social Housing Tenants Warm to Kemper System Roofing Solution

Kemper System’s Stratex warm roof system has been used to upgrade the roofs of five social housing apartment blocks as part of an investment programme supporting a £20 million stock transfer from Gloucester City Council to housing association Gloucester City Homes. Combining Kemper System’s Kempertherm PIR insulation board and the company’s Kemperol V210 cold-applied liquid waterproofing membrane, the warm roof upgrades form part of a £29 million 30-year plan, which also includes construction of 100…

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Austin-Smith:Lord Achieves BREEAM Outstanding in Education

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Austin-Smith:Lord Achieves BREEAM Outstanding in Education

Pupils have started to occupy a new £30 million BREEAM excellent secondary school in Carmarthenshire designed by Austin-Smith Lord. The Bro Dinefwr school at Ffaifachn near Llandeilo will cater for 1,200 pupils in the area, including a 200-pupil sixth form and a 30-place specialist provision for children with additional learning needs. It was delivered in partnership with the Welsh Government through its 21st Century Schools programme. Meanwhile, a new low carbon teaching building designed by…

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First Phase of £44 Million School Campus is Handed Over – A New Special Needs School for London

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First Phase of £44 Million School Campus is Handed Over – A New Special Needs School for London

The Portakabin Group has handed over the first phase of a £44 million school campus for the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, which will be the UK’s largest free school campus. Constructed using a Yorkon off-site solution, the new special educational needs (SEN) school for Riverside Bridge has doubled its capacity in time for the start of the 2016/17 academic year, providing much needed additional places at an earlier stage. The SEN scheme is…

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