The hole truth

Article Abstract:

A five year study of curtain walling by Taywood Engineering shows that nearly 70% of curtain walling installed in new buildings fails to keep out water. Some 101 randomly chosen curtain wall installations were subjected to a series of tests, including a simple water test designed to represent falling rain. The results showed that panellised curtain walling gave better results than stick-type curtain walling.

Research, Evaluation, Engineering services, Engineering firms, Curtain walls, Taywood Engineering Ltd.

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Start with a clean slate: recent slate failures have implications for the whole sector - doubts about quality are affecting the material's reputation

Article Abstract:

Slate is a long established building material but a series of slate failures has led to an investigation into the quality of slates imported from Spain by the Building Research Establishment, which showed that imported products could not withstand British windloadings. Ffestiniog Welsh Slate Products Group sales manager Michael Halle, believes that the whole industry will be damaged if any slate fails.

Quality management, Building materials

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Foreign roof tiles take a slating

Article Abstract:

Foreign slate is increasingly penetrating the UK market, but a recent decision by the Department of National Heritage, promoting the use of UK slate over foreign imports. It decided that Welsh slate should be used for re-roofing Plymouth's Royal William Dockyard instead of Brazilian slate, which had been preferred by Plymouth Development Corporation, the developer.

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