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Cardiff City Council is the latest customer to use Forticrete's innovative Caplock extra secure copings, the latest phase of repairs to council-owned residential areas in Pentwyn. The Caplock system locks together the coping and the top course of brickwork forming a virtually immovable mass. This prevents destruction by vandals and combats the effects of freeze-thaw on mortar. For the Cardiff scheme, a double cant design was chosen. Laurie Morris, project manager, said: 'We intend to use Caplock again in future phases of this contract and also in other contracts, as it will ultimately give our customers a reduction in lifetime maintenance costs. Here in Cardiff, the client has already been impressed by the look of the new walls, and also reassured by their solidity.'

In order to meet local planning requirements and blend in with the prevailing character Forticrete's Anstone and cast stone products have been employed at a housing development in Crich, Derbyshire. The detached houses are primarily built of Anstone Olde Heather Black walling stones with a pitched finish. The pitched finish is rough with a distinctive raised centre, typical of traditional quarry-dressed stone.

In order to meet local planning requirements and blend in with the prevailing character Forticrete's Anstone and cast stone products have been employed at a housing development in Crich, Derbyshire. The detached houses are primarily built of Anstone Olde Heather Black walling stones with a pitched finish. The pitched finish is rough with a distinctive raised centre, typical of traditional quarry-dressed stone.