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SE Controls gains LABC approval for new smoke ventilation solution
An advanced smoke & heat exhaust ventilation (SHEV) system developed by smoke and natural ventilation specialist SE Controls has received full Registered Detail Certification from the LABC (Local Authority Building Control) following a detailed and extensive performance evaluation process. The new SHEVTEC® Extended Travel Distance System was developed by SE Controls to provide an off the shelf solution for developers to deliver extended travel distances with a single escape staircase while avoiding the expense of costly CFD modelling. Due to the safety critical nature of its application, the new system took more than two years to develop fully with SE Controls’ designers and engineers making extensive use of advanced computational fluid dynamics techniques to model a... MORE >
Report of the Week
New module philips lexel led dlm 2000 lm available
Eindhoven, the Netherlands – Philips announces a new lumen package for the Lexel LED DLM, extending the output from 1100 lm to 2000 lm, delivering improved possibilities in creating a wide variety of atmospheres with thousands of shades of white light and colors from a single source. The new lumen package follows the same model as existing Philips Lexel LED DLM products. This model ensures a fixed form factor, LED module and dedicated LED driver. In combination with a heatsink,... MORE >
Ruth's Blog
Underground movement in Naples
I was sent a press release showing this new metro station in Naples, at Università, with designs by Karim Rashid, using Corian. 
My last experience of the Naples metro was of people walking across the tracks to get from one platform to the other, because they couldn’t be bothered to use the long way round. I wonder how much things have changed? Perhaps Naples is the only city where the students show the greatest discipline.
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There's a very perceptive cartoon from that well-known architectural cartoonist Louis Hellman which says much about new housing, in particular, and it's design. why not view the latest digital issue online?
Featured Article Of The Month
This is the case with the refurbishment of 33 Bowling Green Lane, by Ben Adams Architects. If you looked at it quickly you would see... Read more
