Colorcoat® was on song when it helped create a spectacular new home for The Bluebirds, Cardiff City Football Club. Cardiff City Stadium, which opened in 2009, was part of an ambitious leisure and sport development which not only included the club’s new home ground but also a retail park, athletics stadium, residential housing and a [...]

An eco-friendly housing project has been recognised at the Sustainable Housing Awards 2011. Northampton’s Brookside Meadows development has won the Sustainable Smaller Housing Project of the Year, recognised for achieving the top-rated Level Five in the Code for Sustainable Homes. Image source Level Five in the Code for Sustainable Homes The King’s Heath project comprises [...]

Global steel producer Tata Steel is supporting a prestigious new award that is set to become the engineering industry’s own answer to the Nobel Prize. Called The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, it will be launched by Prime Minister David Cameron today (Friday 18 November) and will become the richest award of its kind in [...]

Planning permission has been given for a controversial office block that will be shrouded in LED exterior cladding, reports the Construction Enquirer. Local councillors have finally agreed that construction on the 50,000 sq ft Octopus building can go ahead, following initial concerns that the LED cladding might distract drivers, owing to its proximity to the [...]

A leisure park designed with the theme of water and wind – where you can actually find out what it’s really like to fly – was always going to require a finishing touch that was out of the ordinary. And with the vibrant colours of Colorcoat HPS200 Ultra® pre-finished steel cladding the walls of the [...]

You’d have no reservations staying at this luxurious hotel just off the M8 in Glasgow. Dakota Eurocentral Hotel looks like a giant ‘black box’ and this striking exterior is thanks to Colorcoat Prisma® pre-finished steel. Clad in the deep black shade of Kronos, the result is a building which has such a dramatic and dominating [...]

A futuristic building planned for a Victorian conservation area in Oxford has finally been given the green light, three years after permission was sought, The Oxford Mail reports. An extension to the Middle East Centre at St Anthony’s College – created by Zaha Hadid, one of the world’s most famous architects – will shortly go [...]

Buildings account for around 40% of all CO2 emissions and any carbon reduction strategy has to address this in order to deliver real change. Legislation is driving the low and zero carbon agenda across all sectors and there is a legally binding target for 15% of UK energy to come from renewables by 2020. Wales [...]

The Mini may be small but it’s had a big impact on drivers all over the UK who have fallen in love with its retro styling and fun, fashionable appeal. This contemporary image also applies to its dealerships, and what better option for the new-look Sytner Mini showroom in Leicester than the luxurious finish provided [...]

Are there any precautions I should be undertaking when steel cladding sheets are delivered and used on site? Answer: Sheets should be handled and stored with care to ensure once erected as roof and wall cladding, the sheets will have a life of many years. Failure to observe simple but essential precautions when storing and [...]