APPOINTMENTS & NEWS 11 Passing on the BAL and ARDEX baton


Aſt er more than 20 years with ARDEX and over 10 years with BAL, Peter Bell, managing director, is passing on the baton to his deputy, David Hackett. Peter has enjoyed a stellar career with the ARDEX Group underpinned by his leadership of ARDEX and BAL, two highly successful, market-leading UK businesses. Testament to his commitment and legacy, Peter also holds a group steering position as an ARDEX Global Management Committee member as well as roles on various group boards, including India, Ireland, and the Middle East. He will retain these roles until the end of 2023. As commented by Peter Bell: “David’s promotion to UK managing director is a great example of how the ARDEX group opens development pathways for its key people. It also demonstrates how we promote from within, and how we encourage people to take on international assignments to open up career progression opportunities. As part of passing the baton to David, we expect our UK businesses to continue to thrive under his leadership. His commitment to our people, our customers and our strategic vision make him a great choice to lead our talented team into the future. I am confi dent that ARDEX & BAL will continue to succeed and achieve new milestones under his leadership.” David said: “I am excited and honoured to be stepping into the role of Managing Director and look forward to building on Peter’s impressive legacy.”


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Maud Milton and her talented team of artists, known as Artyface Community Art, work out of studios at Trinity Buoys Wharf in East London. They have become well known across the capital and beyond for helping community groups assemble totally unique mosaics. In particular, Artyface Community Art has been instrumental in fashioning striking interpretations of the ubiquitous London Underground roundel, using hundreds of handmade tiles which carry individual words relating to the locality. Maud and her colleagues have worked closely with school pupils and local residents to design tiles for mosaics for new buildings and walls in the public realm: all mounted on Marmox Multiboards in metal frames. Aside from railway and underground station signs, Maud utilizes Marmox Multiboards for any project which is going to be set in a metal frame, including house names or numbers. A spokesperson for Marmox, Grant Terry, Marketing Manager, added: “We have been delighted to provide Maud and her team with quantities of our Multiboard to help facilitate these very important local projects, involving many different members of the community.”


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FIREFLY™


Phoenix picked to protect pharma giant’s new Macclesfi eld plant


A Manchester based passive fi re protection specialist has utilised products from the range of TBA FIREFLY™ – including the versatile Phoenix Smoke & Flame barriers – to achieve the compartmentation of concealed spaces within the new Macclesfi eld manufacturing facility of a world-leading pharmaceutical giant. Firetech UK Ltd is a key sub-contractor to DES for the construction of the extensive new laboratories and production plant for AstraZeneca, part of the FTSE 100 company’s continuing investment at its East Cheshire site for the distribution of drugs to markets around the world. The Contracts Manager for Firetech UK on the Macclesfi eld Project, Josh Dodds comments: “We have been using FIREFLY™


products for the past fi ve


years, including here on this very large new plant. Early on in the contract we installed a large quantity of TITAN Lite™


installing a series of smoke and fl ame barriers in the ceiling voids over the laboratories, we proposed the Phoenix product as being the most cost-effective solution.”


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Since 2018 it has been a requirement under British Standards BS5385-Part 1 that all wet areas – domestic and commercial – should be protected with an adequate tanking membrane prior to tiling. A tanking system (waterproof coating) – such as BAL Waterproof 1C – should be installed onto backgrounds before tiling commences. This is because tiles, adhesives and grouts themselves are not inherently waterproof and will allow water to pass through – potentially causing water damage, damp and foul odours to occur on the background or substrate. BAL Waterproof 1C is a ready-mixed waterproof coating that can be applied easily with a brush or trowel in only one coat.


Crack-bridging up to 3 mm, it is a fast-track solution, with tiling possible in 2 hours. Priming isn’t needed on most substrates – including plasterboard. Where priming is needed – use BAL Primer 1C, quick drying one-coat primer. Easy to apply straight out of the bucket, it provides coverage of up to 6 m2


shower, bathroom or wetroom. It also includes Fibre Strand Technology for improved strength.


01782 591100 www.bal-adhesives.com SBH09_Bal_Interiors - Bathrooms_DPR.indd 1 WWW.BUILDINGCONSTRUCTIONDESIGN.CO.UK 13/09/2023 13:31 – perfect for any domestic 18/08/2023 11:08 120:60 fi re barriers in the ‘Amenities Area’ of the building and then when we were tasked with


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