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Barnack new homes development helps Vistry Group onto shortlist for national Brick Awards

|Date: 12 Oct 2021

Barnack new homes development helps Vistry Group onto shortlist for national Brick Awards

The distinctive brickwork at a new housing development in Barnack has helped put Vistry Group in the runn ...

The distinctive brickwork at a new housing development in Barnack has helped put Vistry Group in the running for a national industry award. The company, which comprises Linden Homes, Bovis Homes and ...

12 Oct 2021
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Keystone | Brick slip feature lintels make an entrance at luxury development

|Date: 10 Aug 2021

Keystone | Brick slip feature lintels make an entrance at luxury development

Keystone explains how it helped deliver the architectural vision at a new development in Buckinghamshire. ...

Keystone explains how it helped deliver the architectural vision at a new development in Buckinghamshire. Located in Beaconsfield, Wellington Court is an exclusive development of one, two and three be ...

10 Aug 2021
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Expert Update | Investing in plant

|Date: 03 Aug 2021

Expert Update | Investing in plant

Will Stanwix from the Hemp Block Company puts forward the case for hemp as a material for building houses ...

Will Stanwix from the Hemp Block Company puts forward the case for hemp as a material for building houses. Many ‘green’ potential housebuyers may be unaware that buildings are responsible for around ...

03 Aug 2021
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Q&A | Michelmersh

|Date: 29 Jul 2021

Q&A | Michelmersh

PHPD catches up with Michelmersh’s Marketing Director, Sarah Le Gresley to discuss the group’s renewed of ...

PHPD catches up with Michelmersh’s Marketing Director, Sarah Le Gresley to discuss the group’s renewed offering to UK developers, having just acquired Belgian brickmaker Floren. Can you tell us about ...

29 Jul 2021
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Product Spotlight: Bricks & Blocks | The alternative option

|Date: 23 Jul 2021

Product Spotlight: Bricks & Blocks | The alternative option

PHPD takes a glance at some of the interesting bricks and blocks available on the market today. In the la ...

PHPD takes a glance at some of the interesting bricks and blocks available on the market today. In the last issue of PHPD, we gave the final word to the Brick Development Association – a familiar name ...

23 Jul 2021
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Domus Ventilation launches non-combustible Solis Air Brick

|Date: 16 Jul 2021

Domus Ventilation launches non-combustible Solis Air Brick

Domus Ventilation, part of the Polypipe group, has launched the new Solis Air Brick range of low resistan ...

Domus Ventilation, part of the Polypipe group, has launched the new Solis Air Brick range of low resistance, non-combustible metal air bricks that are fully compliant with the revised Building Regulat ...

16 Jul 2021
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Brick Development Association | Concrete and clay

|Date: 09 Jul 2021

Brick Development Association | Concrete and clay

Sean Wilkins, Technical Manager with the Brick Development Association, weighs in on the debate between c ...

Sean Wilkins, Technical Manager with the Brick Development Association, weighs in on the debate between concrete and clay building blocks. The UK has a long history of using bricks and mortar in housi ...

09 Jul 2021
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Imperial Bricks’ factories meet highest international standards

|Date: 06 Jul 2021

Imperial Bricks’ factories meet highest international standards

Imperial Bricks now requires all of its manufacturing partners meet and evidence at least four key intern ...

Imperial Bricks now requires all of its manufacturing partners meet and evidence at least four key internationally recognised standards for product quality, sustainability and ethical supply. In fact, ...

06 Jul 2021
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Kenoteq | Keeping your cool

|Date: 02 Jul 2021

Kenoteq | Keeping your cool

Is the need to house the population of the present in suitable homes in direct conflict with the need to ...

Is the need to house the population of the present in suitable homes in direct conflict with the need to reduce our carbon footprint and provide that same population with a better future? Professor G ...

02 Jul 2021
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Two million revolutionary bricks go into annual production following funding award

|Date: 16 Jun 2021

Two million revolutionary bricks go into annual production following funding award

Kenoteq, a clean-tech spin-out from Heriot-Watt University, has been awarded £1 million in funding by Zer ...

Kenoteq, a clean-tech spin-out from Heriot-Watt University, has been awarded £1 million in funding by Zero Waste Scotland to commercialise production of its revolutionary brick made of recycled constr ...

16 Jun 2021
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