Monthly update of News and Events from The Building Centre http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk en-gb Tues, 3 March 2009 10:04:59 GMT Copyright: (C) The Building Centre http://www.specifinder.com/images/feed_logo.gif http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk If you are interested in engineering, March is a good month for you at The Building Centre, featuring the Engineering Value Exhibition curated by Price & Myers in the main galleryand with the Engineering Club meeting on 5 March to discuss Solar Updraft Tower technology. The Building Centre is also offering a variety of different sales and marketing courses, with the spring programme beginning on 24 March 09 with Construction Industry Sales Skills. For further information read on or visit: www.buildingcentre.co.uk http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk Tues, 3 March 2009 10:58 GMT General http://www.anp.se/upload/The_Building_Centre/buildingcentre.jpg http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk 12 February – 1 April 2009, Main Gallery This exhibition, curated by Price & Myers partner Tim Lucas, will feature drawings, models and images that explain the creative value of engineering: in particular, how a structure can look exciting without being complicated to make and build, and can therefore be surprisingly economic. http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/events/event_diary_details.asp?id=434 Tues, 3 March 2009 10:57 GMT Exhibition Wednesday 22 April, 6.30 pm Speakers: Nic Crawley, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and Charles Thomson, Rivington Street Studios Nic Crawley of AHMM will present on Westminster Academy and 160 Tooley Street in London, while Charles Thomson will focus on York St John University - all buildings which show exemplary uses of concrete. http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/events/event_diary_details.asp?id=417 Tues, 3 March 2009 10:53 GMT Event 3 March 2009 – 28 March 2009 A New London Architecture exhibition at The Building Centre Westminster is renowned for its outstanding heritage with the largest number of listed buildings and conservation areas of any London borough. Its townscape is a record of London’s growth and history, but it is also a living community that embraces change and innovation. Contemporary Westminster celebrates the new architecture of the city and marks the conclusion of the City Council’s Design Year. The fifty projects that have been selected give a snapshot of architectural design in the first decade of the new Millennium, ranging from single houses to major commercial developments, from cafes to new schools. The schemes embrace the modern world in both their architecture and expression, demonstrating Westminster’s continuing aim to achieve the highest standard and quality of architecture. http://www.newlondonarchitecture.org/ Tues, 3 March 2009 10:45 GMT Exhibition Thursday 5 March, 6.30pm Solar Updraft Tower Technology Speaker: Rudolf Bergermann A solar updraft tower power plant - sometimes called a ‘solar chimney’ - is a large-scale renewable energy generation source for clean, green electricity. Examples of these are being planned in the USA and for sites around the world. Rudolf Bergermann, who currently researches intensively in the field of solar energy with his firm Schlaich Bergermann Solar, will discuss the technology and economical benefits of a whole range of solar power plant technologies with particular emphasis on the solar updraft tower. http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/events/event_diary_details.asp?id=436 Tues, 3 March 2009 10:37 GMT Event The Spring 2009 series of training seminars at The Building Centre will begin on 24th March. The courses are designed specifically for building products manufacturers and suppliers but will also be relevant to construction professionals needing to be briefed on the drivers, influences and structure of the industry and changing specification procedures. The leader and main speaker for the courses will be Chris Ashworth of Competitive Advantage, an acknowledged expert on sales and marketing and the specification procedure. The one day CPD certified courses are Construction Industry Sales Skills followed by Construction Industry Overview, Key Account Management , Marketing in the Construction Industry, Effective Specification Selling and Marketing Building Products into a Sustainable Market. For more information on the content of the courses and to book a place visit: www.buildingcentre.co.uk/research/training.asp or telephone Neil Martin on 020 7692 6205 http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/research/training.asp Tues, 3 March 2009 10:31 GMT Advertisement Call For Entries The Mail on Sunday British Homes Awards 2009 in partnership with Communities and Local Government call for design submissions for a Lifetime Home and entries in 12 Categories Following the successful legacies of The Barratt Green House and the Avanti House with Crest Nicholson, the 2009 British Homes Awards Design Competition now addresses one of the biggest challenges of 21st century- the challenge of an ageing population and invites architects working with interior designers to submit their own vision of a Lifetime Home, working to the design brief which can be downloaded from www.britishhomesawards.com/design brief.asp and www.architecture.com/competitions. http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/news/news_details.asp?article=57 Tues, 3 March 2009 10:11 GMT Event The economic environment has altered substantially over the past 18 months and although economic slowdowns are a cyclical phenomena, the sharp rate of this decline has been unprecedented. Crisis in the financial markets has led to a slowing of economic activity and a sharp fall in credit availability. Recovery is dependent upon an upturn in credit markets in the private economy and government keeping to its many pronouncements of spending. To purchase the full forecast please contact forecasts@constructionproducts.org.uk or phone 020 7323 3770 http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/ForecastsSynopsis_Winter_08_09.pdf Tues, 3 March 2009 10:26 GMT Advertisement The Building Centre in collaboration with BDS Marketing Research provides detailed planning reports for various sectors within the GB construction industry. The reports are available on annual subscription. The Housebuilders planning report provides numbers of planning consents summarised for each housebuilder. http://www.buildingcentre/research/planning.asp Tues, 3 March 2009 10:15 GMT Advertisement Housing Associations’ activity is holding up in the current economic climate compared with the private speculative housing sector. Housing Associations are responsible for the vast majority of new build social housing and increasingly for the maintenance of social housing stock. These two lists identify over 1100 key decision makers, with over 560 named contacts responsible for new build and over 570 named contacts responsible for maintenance. http://http://www.anp.se/editor3.asp Tues, 3 March 2009 10:14 GMT Advertisement Spanlite has developed an entirely new way to back-light permanently installed glass or Decoran recycled glass walls without the need to get access behind to service the lamps. This system can be seen in a new display in the Building Centre from March 09 and is open for architects and designers to view. The SpanLite ‘cassette’ lighting system uses a 12mm thick PolyLite edge lighting panel set 25mm behind the feature wall, with light from LEDs shone into the top and bottom edges which producesan even panel of illumination suitable for back lighting. http://www.specifinder.com/company_news_detail.asp?entryID=22073 Tues, 3 March 2009 10:13 GMT Advertisement UK Trade & Investment held a day long training session at The Building Centre in February for over 20 commercial officers based in various British Embassies, High Commissions and Consulates and UKTI staff, to brief them on the latest developments in the UK construction industry. The course was led by Chris Ashworth who also presents the series of sales & marketing training courses organised at the Centre during Spring and Autumn. The day culminated in a well attended evening networking event hosted by Terry Hill, Chairman of the UK Trade & Investment Construction Sector Advisory Group and Chairman of Arup, to which UK exporters were invited, including professionals and manufacturers to meet the commercial officers to discuss potential opportunities. For further information go to www.uktradeinvest.gov.uk https://www.uktradeinvest.gov.uk/ Tues, 3 March 2009 10:12 GMT Advertisement Looking for product information? Interested in keeping up-to-date with the latest products in the marketplace? Look no further than specifinder.com . Some of the new companies featured this month include…………. JUNG U.K, Little Chart Laths, Roof-Pro, Farrat Isolevel, PLM Illumination, Stretch Ceilings, Quad-Lock, Kelly Brothers, Shopkit Group, Kingspan Hot Water Systems, Novin Ltd, Werzalit http://www.specifinder.com/ Tues, 3 March 2009 10:11 GMT Advertisement