END OF YEAR REVIEW


New guide from GEZE


The UK manufacturer of door and window control technology, GEZE UK, has updated its product guide and price list to help architects, architectural ironmongers and specifiers choose the most effective product for their needs. The illustrated technical guide provides essential information about GEZE’s extensive range of door closers, window control systems, sliding door fittings, RWA smoke and heat extraction systems, as well as its latest innovations. The new version of the product guide is designed to replace the contents of GEZE UK’s existing binder, and is available electronically or as hard copy. The guide includes technical drawings, application descriptions and finishes, so that specifiers have all of the options at their fingertips. Commenting on the new guide, Andy Howland, GEZE UK’s sales director, said: "This comprehensive guide and price list presents all the information a specifier could need.” For more information call 01453 443015 or email info.uk@geze.com.


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elcome to our End of Year Review - a round-up of some of our favourite products and developments


throughout the past year. It has certainly been a difficult year for the industry once again but that hasn't stopped suppliers from innovating and launching some truly fantastic items. So if


Style and sustainability


Metal Technology has completed work on residential units at a regenerated brownfield site overlooking the Limehouse Cut canal at Bow Common Lane, Poplar in East London. Built by Higgins Construction plc for Higgins Homes plc and Swan Housing Association Ltd, the £15m Aqua Vista scheme comprises 105 private and 52 affordable units together with 868m sq of commercial floorspace. The scheme also includes a basement car park, canalside walkway, landscaped communal area and private gardens. Metal Technology’s System 17 High Rise Curtain Walling offers the designer a range of profiles that provide structural integrity, weather performance and thermal enhancement. A quality-engineered glazing solution, System 17 complies with the Lifetime Homes and Code for Sustainable Homes Level 3 specifications required on the Aqua Vista scheme by architects chapman tolcher carey jones. Complementing System 17 at Aqua Vista, Metal Technology’s System 5-20 thermally broken tilt/ turn window and tilt/ slide


you're looking for the perfect product for your project, here are just a few ideas to give you a flavour of what the industry has produced in one of the toughest years we have ever faced. We wish all our suppliers the best of luck for 2013 and hope that they continue to supply the industry with more great products like these. ■


doors offer the specifier the advantages of high- performance polyamide thermal break technology in meeting and, in many cases exceeding, the latest building regulation thermal requirements. For more information visit www.metaltechnology.com


Not just for yachts


Sometimes a product does more than what it says on the tin and ‘Yacht Varnish’, a new marine quality exterior varnish from Everbuild Building Products Ltd does just that! Yacht Varnish is a high quality, durable varnish which provides long lasting protection on smooth planed hard and soft woods. The product itself has a durable alkyd based formula which resists cracking, blistering and peeling by flexing with the movement in wood. Yacht Varnish is a traditional name


COSYFLOOR AND DEMISTA AID REDESIGN


Exceptional luxury in design and comfort is interior designer, Anouska Hempel’s signature, and these qualities are clearly reflected in the newly refurbished bathrooms at Blakes Hotel in South Kensington, London. Demista™


low energy


heated mirror pads were fitted discreetly behind the bathroom mirrors, and were an integral part of the lavish refurbishment. In


addition, R & D Marketing’s Cosyfloor™ underfloor heating was installed to provide gentle warmth for bare feet in the bathrooms. Founded in 1990, Demista™


is


recognised as a major supplier of specialised products to improve and facilitate daily routines and lifestyle. For more information call 01932 866600, or email rd@demista.co.uk


for this type of product but don’t be fooled, this exceptional product also has a multitude of other uses. Yacht Varnish provides the ultimate protection against UV rays, salt water and other extreme weather conditions on any wood surfaces that are regularly exposed to the elements. Yacht Varnish joins Wood Stain and Clear Varnish as another new addition to the popular Everbuild Wood Care range, available in a gloss finish in 750ml and 2.5ltr sized attractive printed tins. For further information please telephone 0113 240 3456, email sales@everbuild.co.uk or visit www.everbuild.co.uk


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