Search Results: 'Kingspan'

Futurebuild in the frame
18 December, 2006
Timber engineered building system manufacturer Kingspan Century is planning a major presence at Futurebuild 2007 at Earls Court in February.

Eco-home showcases timber frame construction
02 December, 2006
Timber frame designer and manufacturer Prestoplan has helped create a prototype eco-home to showcase modern methods of construction.

Construction starts on first 60K house
14 November, 2006
Kingspan Century is starting work on the first SIXTYK Consortium site to be developed as part of the government's Design for Manufacture competition.

Raising the game
28 October, 2006
Delegates at the TTF conference heard that the timber industry must be more proactive and innovative if it is to beat off the competition

Timber frame peceptions changing, says Kingspan Century
23 October, 2006
Perceptions of timber frame's capabilities are changing rapidly, according to Kingspan Century.

SIPs used in UK's largest off-site project
16 October, 2006
The UK's largest development to be built using off-site construction techniques is under way in Manchester.

TTF conference line-up finalised
29 September, 2006
The final line-up of speakers for this year's Timber Trade Federation (TTF) conference has been announced.

Kingspan confident of timber frame growth
12 September, 2006
Kingspan Group plc has posted a 33.7% growth in first half pre-tax profits to €83.4m.

Kingspan Century supplies green project
04 September, 2006
Kingspan Century's TEK structural insulated panel building system has been used in a green housing project in Norfolk which achieved an EcoHomes rating of “good”.

Taking more stick to brick
19 August, 2006
The timber frame sector continues to grow and diversify

Full house
19 August, 2006
Engineered timber specialist Palgrave Brown has widened its offering to include the Kingspan TEK building system

SIXTYK Consortium scores a hat-trick
07 August, 2006
The SIXTYK Consortium and its house system supplier Kingspan TEK have scored a hat-trick in the government’s Design for Manufacture competition.

Kingspan Century expands in UK
27 July, 2006

Kingspan acquisition imminent
24 July, 2006
Kingspan is preparing to announce an acquisition in the timber construction sector as part of a concerted effort to consolidate the market.

Enterprise Ireland launches UK promotion
10 July, 2006
Irish development agency Enterprise Ireland says it can save the UK construction industry millions of pounds a year by greater use of Irish suppliers.

TEK homes built in a day
07 July, 2006
The Kingspan-Century TEK building system has been used to construct homes in a single day at a development in the Orkney Islands.

Panel building system cuts fuel bills by 80%
10 June, 2006
A three year energy efficiency analysis carried out by Clays of Addingham has revealed that the heating bills of homes constructed using Kingspan Century’s TEK Building System are around 80% less than homes constructed using traditional building methods.

Eco-friendly in Dublin
09 June, 2006
All the timber components for the roof, wall and floor of an eco-friendly private home in Dublin were supplied by Finnforest.

Firm foundations to build on
27 May, 2006
Timber got some great publicity last week smack bang in the middle of London.

Timber house attracts VIPs
27 May, 2006
Community and local government secretary Ruth Kelly and deputy prime minister John Prescott were among the visitors to the SixtyK timber panel house in central London.