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An insulated roof and wall system that comes complete with guarantees for specifiers and building owners has been launched by Arval from Arcelor Construction UK. The Fidelite twin-skin roof and wall system provides a single source of supply for a non-fragile roof or wall assembly with a range of guaranteed U-values for compliance with building regulations. Fidelite comprises a profiled outer sheet and accessories.

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An insulated roof and wall system that comes complete with guarantees for specifiers and building owners has been launched by Arval from Arcelor Construction UK. The Fidelite twin-skin roof and wall system provides a single source of supply for a non-fragile roof or wall assembly with a range of guaranteed U-values for compliance with building regulations. Fidelite comprises a profiled outer sheet and accessories.

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News update: Telling Architectural have entered into a collaborative agreement with Alsecco/Caparol for the development of the Airstone range of coloured glass and natural stone rainscreen systems. Laminated to a lightweight concrete panel created by an aerated clay process, Airstone is available in sizes up to three metres in length and 1.2 metres in width with seamless corner units. The weight if the systems at 50-60 kgs/m2 allows the panels to be installed as a rainscreen or within a curtain wall supported by a lightweight aluminium substructure.

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James & Taylor has created a 'moving' appearance for the facade on the Highcross shopping and leisure development in Leicester. In a statement sent to Building Products the company explained that the facade, composed of two layers of expanded alumium veil (EAV), generates a pronounced moire effect on the £30 million development's six storey car park. This, its says, provides an eye-catching mobile effect for shoppers and passsing motorists. The project represents the company's largest EAV order to date. Highcross is the second major car park project for James & Taylor using EAV.

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Architects and designers using Trespa Meteon panels can now get a helping hand in creating more imaginative facades thanks to Trespa International's new Colour concept. The Trespa Colour concept is based on the launch of a coordinated range of colours, including new and existing ones.

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After an international colour workshop involving architects from the UK, France and Germany, Marley Eternit has launched a Natura range of fibre cement decorative cladding panels. In contrast with the Natura Plus range which features the same colour throughout, the new Natura range includes nine colours that are available as a varnish on a lightweight Anthacite (dark grey) core and a further five varnish colours on a natural grey core. UK architects Cany Ash and Robert Sakula from Ash Sakula Architects in London met with Konrad Wohlhage from Leon Wohlhage Wernik Architekten in Berlin and David Trottin from Peripheriques Architectes in Paris for the workshop. Together they analysed Marley Eternit's cladding colour range and those available from sister companies in Europe. The architects expressed a preference for shades of the more natural colours even when a range contained bold primary colours. They suggested strengthening the natural identity of the fibre cement substrate by using colour varnishes on the base material. This recommendation was taken on board and the result is the Natura colours range.

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After an international colour workshop involving architects from the UK, France and Germany, Marley Eternit has launched a Natura range of fibre cement decorative cladding panels. In contrast with the Natura Plus range which features the same colour throughout, the new Natura range includes nine colours that are available as a varnish on a lightweight Anthacite (dark grey) core and a further five varnish colours on a natural grey core. UK architects Cany Ash and Robert Sakula from Ash Sakula Architects in London met with Konrad Wohlhage from Leon Wohlhage Wernik Architekten in Berlin and David Trottin from Peripheriques Architectes in Paris for the workshop. Together they analysed Marley Eternit's cladding colour range and those available from sister companies in Europe. The architects expressed a preference for shades of the more natural colours even when a range contained bold primary colours. They suggested strengthening the natural identity of the fibre cement substrate by using colour varnishes on the base material. This recommendation was taken on board and the result is the Natura colours range.

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Leeds students have had their chances of living in style vastly improved by Senior Aluminium Systems (SAS). The company teamed up with fabricators Skipton Glass to install high performance curtain wall in the new Carr Mill Complex on Meanwood Road, Leeds. Carr Mill has been purposely built to provide contemporary accommodation to students.

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A&M Engineering's sales, service and repair workshop in St Clears, Carmarthenshire has had corrugated sheet supplied by Cembrit Blunn. The engineering company selected slate blue Cemsix corrugated sheet for the roof and terracotta Cemsix for the walls of the 100 x 65ft workshop as a means of matching the corporate colours without being outlandish. What was originally a square box was re-designed by Mark Atherton of A&M Engineering and is now a spacious building with a lean-to style office and trade counter mezzanine. A&M Engineering have planned for the future by designing the rear wall so that it can be removed for future extensions.

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The new MX curtain walling system from Technal has been specified by Cartwright Pickard Architects for a landmark 16 storey tower in Sheffield. The £850,000 contract has been awarded to fabricator and installer Dortech, in partnership with Technal. The I Quarter is a £12 million mixed use riverside scheme, which includes a fully glazed residential tower overlooking the river Don.

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