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Hacel Lighting

Hacel Lighting, a leading UK manufacturer of retail, commercial and architectural lighting, will open their second showroom at Rexel Senate Brentwood on 28 March. The showroom will feature a large selection of Hacel's substantial range giving an indication of the design flair and manufacturing excellence which combine to produce high quality lighting products.

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Wrightstyle

Wrightstyle, a leading steel glazing system company, has launched its own range of fully-certified fire resistant glass. Adding flexibility and aesthetics to the safety characteristics, it covers applications from 30 minutes integrity to 120 minutes integrity and insulation--which can also incorporate solar control or low-E glass. This significant development means that there is now a specialist glass supplier that understands both the glass element as well as the appropriate framing system.

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Corus

The new Quadrants at Manchester United have been clad using Colorcoat HPS See Seer*HPS. 200[R] pre-finished steel. Corus Panels and Profiles supplied the cladding The plastic or glass sheath that is fused to and surrounds the core of an optical fiber. The cladding's mirror-like coating keeps the light waves reflected inside the core. The cladding is covered with a protective outer jacket. See fiber optics glossary.  system, a continuation of the Colorcoat[R] product already used on the famous Old Trafford Old Trafford commonly refers to two sporting arenas:
  • Old Trafford (football ground), home of Manchester United F.C.
  • Old Trafford (cricket ground), home of Lancashire County Cricket Club.
 stadium. The new extensions have increased capacity from 65 000 to up to 76 000 seats. Architectural practice, the Miller Partnership, specified Colorcoat HPS200[R] to ensure a robust and aesthetically superior finish.

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Reed Harris

Reed Harris is pleased to announce a new partnership with Italian porcelain porcelain [Ital. porcellana], white, hard, permanent, nonporous pottery having translucence which is resonant when struck. Porcelain was first made by the Chinese to withstand the great heat generated in certain parts of their kilns.  manufacturer Graniti Fiandre. Graniti Fiandre has an unrivalled global reputation for precise design and outstanding technical characteristics which mirrors the Reed Harris ideals of providing high quality products and services in conjunction with exceptional technical support. For further information please contact architectural@reed-harris.co.uk or visit our website at www.reedharris.co.uk

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Jones of Oswestry

For its Superlintel range of steel lintels, Jones of Oswestry has launched a brand new design and specifying disk, with powerful database and web link facilities. The CD Rom CD ROM Compact Disk Read Only Memory  will assimilate load span data and select the appropriate lintel code, providing extracts from load span tables and an image of the chosen section. It also has the facility to drag-and-drop lintel sections into AutoCAD design programmes. For further information tel: 01691 659646; fax: 01691 652918.

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Schock

Cantilevered structural elements Structural elements are used in structural analysis to simplify the structure which is to be analysed.

Structural elements can be linear, surfaces or volumes.

Linear elements:
  • Rod - axial loads
  • Beam - axial and bending loads
 such as balconies can create thermal bridges A thermal bridge is created when materials that are poor insulators come in contact, allowing heat to flow through the path created.

Insulation around a bridge is of little help in preventing heat loss or gain due to thermal bridging; the bridging has to be eliminated,
 when they penetrate the building envelope A building envelope is the separation between the interior and the exterior environments of a building. It serves as the outer shell to protect the indoor environment as well as to facilitate its climate control. . Schock's lsokorb modules provide structural strength while preventing heat loss through thermal bridging. For more information see www.schoeck.com

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Stadia & Arena

Stadia & Arena 2007 will now take place on 5 and 6 June at the new Wembley National Stadium. Despite disappointment at postponement, Project Director Alan Levett remains remarkably upbeat. 'If anything people wanting to take part in the Exhibition and the Conference seem keener than ever. I am absolutely delighted at the loyalty that has been shown, and the fact that we are actually looking for Looking for

In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with.
 extra exhibition space is proof of the continuing interest.' To register for the conference go to: www.sam.uk.com

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Alcoa

One of the best known alumininum roof products on the market is Reynolux[R] Roof from Alcoa Architectural Products in Merxheim, France. Reynolux[R] Roof is a coil-coated aluminium sheet manufactured through coil coating. The process allows for the application of one or more layers of paint, in uniform quality without colour deviation. This provides the company's partners with the option of several paint systems, opening up the potential for creative applications. Coatings include polyester, polyamide polyamide

material used in the creation of nonabsorbable, synthetic, nylon sutures.
, PVDF PVDF polyvinylidene difluoride  and DURAGLOSS[R].

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