Insights
An industry journal, not a company blog.
Technical writing on how interiors and building-envelope packages are specified, sequenced and evidenced — published only when it is useful to the people who have to build them.
- Articles
- 4
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- Sourced or withheld
- Subjects
- Fire · Facades · Interiors
- Language
- British English
Current writing
Specification guidance
Specifying fire stopping so the evidence survives handover
Compartmentation is invisible once a building is complete. What remains is the record — and on most projects the record is assembled after the fact, when it can no longer be verified.
18 June 2026 · 7 min read
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2 May 2026
Technical explainer
Why facade problems usually begin in the framing
By the time a joint line looks wrong from the pavement, the cause is usually three layers back and several months earlier.
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03
24 March 2026
Expert commentary
Getting value from the contractor's design portion
A contractor's design portion works when it hands a specialist a decision they are better placed to make. It fails when it hands them a gap.
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04
10 February 2026
Skills research
Apprentice pay in the specialist trades: a research programme
The specialist trades cannot recruit their way out of a skills shortage without understanding what they are offering. This is the research programme we intend to run.
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