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The total volume of construction output in the year to the second quarter of 2002 rose by seven per cent compared to the previous twelve months. Overall new work rose over the same period, despite a decrease in the private industrial sector.

Technal has expanded its FXi suite of commercial aluminium windows with the addition of a 65mm module designed to give specifiers more choice and flexibility to meet the requirements of Part L

Reflectiv is launching a range of coloured films for windows. These films are transparent, which allows them to create a tinted atmosphere without masking the view

Union has introduced three distinct levels of lever handle furniture, each offering specific features and benefits to provide flexibility for a wide range of commercial developments

PROFILE 22 has devised a clever solution to the frustrations of fitting fixed angle bay windows.

Briwax Professional is a woodgrain and colour touch-up and repair system for the furniture, kitchen and window manufacturing industries

Demista heated mirror pads for bathroom mirrors and Cosyfloor underfloor comfort heating

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Paul Bateman has joined GBW as Technical Sales Manager specifically for the Discovery range of composite doors

HW Plastics has appointed Brian Wallace as the new Head of Marketing for its building products division

Patiomaster (Midlands) has strengthened its team with the promotion and appointment of three members to its Kidderminster-based team

Mick Maddison has joined Leeds fastener company SFS intec, to head its UK customer services operation

Rehau has made two new appointments at its Manchester Sales Office

A number of managers at Kestrel Building Products have recently been awarded NVQ certificates

Steel Window Service & Supplies has been awarded the lnvestors in People accreditation

Rehau fabricator Solar Windows, based in Caerphilly, South Wales, is investing in an new scheme to provide on-site health and safety training to all its shop floor employees.

CGI International's new guidance paper 'An overview of Fire Rated Glasses' can be used as a training aid to help architects and specifiers through the maze of different fire glasses in the market place

In its continuing push to promote health & safety in the woodworking industry, the British Woodworking Federation (BWF) has published two more Machinery Safety Cards

Bowater Windows Public Sector lnstallation Division won an award from the British Safety Council. Only companies with below average accident rates are eligible

Smaller firms are being given the chance to show their commitment to safety with the launch of a new category in the construction industry's Working Well Together (WWT) awards

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) recently launched the Small Firms Assistance Scheme (SFAS), a pilot grant scheme designed to help small firms improve their health and safety performance

Hurst Plastics, the UK manufacturer of PVCu door panels, has made big cuts in the amount of PVC that goes to waste disposal by installing a machine to recycle all white PVC waste from their manufacturing process

WRAP - the Waste and Resources Action Programme has announced a capital grant competition .

Vetrotech Saint-Gobain, supplier of fire resisting glasses, has completed a prestigious contract in Holland for the Dutch Ministry of Justice

Annandale Design, manufacturer and installer of architectural metalwork, has completed the first part of a contract worth over £200,000 with one of the UK's leading department stores

When Coxhoe Primary School, needed to replace the arched windows of the period building, Spectus fabricator Slimline Windows provided a solution that merged seamlessly with the Victorian architecture

William Stewart fabricated and installed four adjoining high gabled Quantal conservatory roofs in a restaurant at the Northam Farm Holiday Park in Burnham On Sea

Fabricators Alurite Ltd recently installed curtain walling and windows from Senior Aluminium into an office village based in Cardiff Gate.

SBT Architects have recently completed a new office development on the single remaining site at Chineham Court, Basingstoke.

The Boardwalk is a prestigious residential development set in the heart of London's Docklands.

Kestrel's PVC-ue roofline products feature on a new block of luxury apartments built by Robertson Residential in Newton Mearns, Glasgow.

Pilkington Architectural won a £600,000+ contract to provide two huge glass façades for the project representing 1000m2 of Pilkington Planar Tension Structure

Phil Mundell, sales and marketing director for Sentinel Doors, discusses the practical application of Part M and its implications for the expanding role of the door manufacturer in helping to assess the needs of the disabled