Getting ‘Closer to Home’ with surface material innovation

The Surface Design Show will showcase the best in innovative surface design, manufacturing and development at London’s Business Design Centre in February, putting the focus on the on-trend topic ‘Close to Home’ Now in its 15th year, the Surface Design [...]

New Government reveals housing plans in Queen's Speech

The new UK Government has touched on its housing plans as part of the Queen's Speech, aiming to help home-buyers and renters, devolve power and funding to communities and improve building safety. The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government [...]

Grand central viewing station

As part of creating a bespoke structure in the centre of a major New York development to offer unique public space, Heatherwick Studio utilised a revolutionary technique to create a copper finish in steel that wouldn’t degrade over time, as [...]

PM Boris Johnson announces hospitals to receive £850m for new builds and upgrades

Boris Johnson has announced the 20 hospitals that will benefit from £850m to upgrade "outdated facilities and equipment," as well as confirming the £1bn "boost" to NHS capital spending that will "allow existing upgrade programmes to proceed, and tackle the [...]

Robert Jenrick named housing secretary in cabinet reshuffle

Robert Jenrick has replaced James Brokenshire as the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government in Boris Johnson’s new cabinet. Jenrick has been the MP for Newark since 2014, and was made Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury on [...]

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