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appointments & news; cultural buildings project report
Jackoboard awarded BBA Certificate for total system
Jackoboard products and systems. British owned TileBacker Limited is the sole distributor of German manufactured Jackoboard products in the UK and Eire. The Jackoboard BBA Certificate covers the full
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range of Jackoboard XPS (Extruded Polystyrene) cored products including construction boards, shower bases, and sealing systems – a rarity in this type of product. In addition, Jackoboard’s Certificate covers usage of the construction boards to achieve high thermal insulation values – again almost unique for this type of product. The British Board of Agrement, based at the
Building Research Establishment, is a non-profit distributing organisation which has developed rigorous inspection and certification services to provide reassurance to the construction industry
that manufacturers’ products are ‘fit for purpose’. Only products that have passed a series of comprehensive assessments – including laboratory tests, on-site evaluations, quality management checks and production line inspection – are awarded an Agrement Certificate. With XPS products a particular area of concern
is that gases used in manufacture are legally compliant with environmental legislation related to ozone layer depletion. This is currently a major issue with recent tests showing that boards
New coating helps prevent static build up
the metal tanks. Delvemade has created a conductive coating that could effectively protect the tank and help dissipate the static build up. The new product called Delcote ASC, has been shown in tests to help prevent the build-up of static. The meter shows electrical flow across Delcote ASC coating.
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Engineers from a leading water company occasionally felt an electric shock when undertaking maintenance work on sewerage tanks. This highlighted a significant potential risk as the tanks contents are vented to release flammable gases. A build up of static was occurring when operators wearing rubber boots walked across the roofs of
ileBacker Limited is delighted to announce the award of a BBA (British Board of Agrement) Certificate for
manufactured in China are being produced incorporating banned and toxic substances. For architects, specifiers, building control,
construction companies and government departments the BBA Certificate is a mark of quality, safety, reliability and ‘peace-of-mind’ and, crucially, that the product is all a manufacturer claims it to be. Colin Higham, Managing Director of
TileBacker said “We are delighted to be awarded a BBA Certificate after only three years activity in the UK marketplace. Jackoboard’s reputation for very high quality in both materials and processes is well-established throughout Europe and our BBA Certificate now confirms this position in the UK. The inclusion of thermal values in the Certificate opens up further exciting opportunities for Jackoboard in the insulation fields.”
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www.tile-backer.co.uk Wraptite-SA protects historic church
Wraptite-SA airtight membrane from A. Proctor Group has demonstrated its outstanding flexibility to offer high performance protection, in the restoration of a historic church building, damaged by the earth- quake, which hit Japan in 2011. The arched windows
presented a challenge when specifying a suitable water resistant membrane, which was flexible, yet resilient to resist punctures and tears, and provide high perform- ance protection for the building. Mr Kusumoto selected Wraptite-SA, which was perfectly suited to work around the window arches, achieving full water protec- tion. Wraptite-SA, is a self-adhering, airtight, yet vapor permeable barrier, which is fully water resistant and was applied externally to the walls, and the windows.
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www.proctorgroup.com/air-barriers Dramatic Water Savings by Ambassador Theatre Group
Six famous London Theatres have now installed Falcon Waterless Urinals from Relcross in their gents’ toilets. The Savoy Theatre, The Harold Pinter Theatre, The Playhouse Theatre, The Duke of York’s, The Fortune and The Trafalgar Studios are now enjoying water savings of up to 150,000 litres of water per year, per urinal – a massive saving in water charges. They are soon to be joined by The Apollo Victoria. The Falcon Flax urinals are designed to optionally carry advertisements across the top of the urinal. This maximises the commercial opportunity presented by a captive audience while removing a hygiene problem of wall mounted advertisements. The urinal mounted ads are easily cleaned with the urinals and offer no nooks or crannies to harbour bacteria. Venues such as theatres, sports stadia and conference centres are enthusiastic users of waterless urinals as so much water is currently wasted by automatically flushing urinals all day, every day but with actual usage concentrated into short, busy periods followed by further inactivity. The Ambassador Theatre Group joins the Dolphin Stadium in Miami, the Nou Camp in Barcelona, the Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough and many others who have installed Falcon Waterless Urinals.
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