Please see Home Designer & Architect’s March 2022 issue. Showcasing the most exciting Products, Services and Innovations in the Building and Design Industry.

Domus Ventilation has released three RIBA accredited Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses on residential ventilation.

RINNAI ANNOUNCES NEW “H3” PRODUCT ROADMAP IN DRIVE TO NET ZERO

Rinnai is expanding its product range in accordance with increased demand for decarbonizing technology. Rinnai’s new “H3” range of products includes a wide selection of commercial heat pumps as well as hydrogen blends- ready and hybrid hot water heating systems.

With new Building Regulations on ventilationand energy efficiencycoming into force later this year, to help achieve zero carbon by 2050, Gilberts Blackpool is ahead of the game in advice and support. As the UK’s leading independent air movement specialist with more than half a century delivering natural and mechanical ventilation for commercial and public environments, the company has published “Sustainable Building Design & the Zero Carbon Evolution”.

Now more than ever the bathroom is a place of sanctuary, relaxation and comfort. What are they key trends that help create such a space? Ben Bryden, Sales and Marketing Director of RAK Ceramics, looks at the materials, colours and finishes that are coming through to will help architects and installers create bathrooms that meet up to their customers’ high expectations.

The materials chosen for the walls and floors in the kitchens and bathrooms have a huge role to play, stylistically and practically. These are surfaces that are highly visible and in the open-plan setting, always on show as well as so often in use.

THE home staging industry has been booming in recent years, with high competition for buyer attention and prices expected to continue rising.

Client: Mark McCall

Style: Automated self-build

Location: County Down, Northern Ireland Build time: 13 months

Mark and Helen McCall have always been advocates for smart home living. Running the website ‘Automated Home’ for 25 years, the couple constructed their first self-build in 1999, building on their love and knowledge of home technology as the sector grew.

Gardens are an extension of your home. Come rain or shine, you should be able to enjoy your outside space all year round. Wrap up warm, get the kettle on, and spend time outside with your nearest and dearest. Here are six things you can do to utilise your garden all year round...

“We started manufacturing stainless steel towel rails, quite simply because my wife asked me why half the chrome accessories within her bathroom had rusted within a year and yet the others hadn’t, I said because the others are not chrome, they are made from stainless steel, she noted if that had happened to her it had happened to others and ladder rails where in their infancy from that the Sussex Range was born”

The architecture and built environment sector is one of the fastest evolving industries in the UK. Not only are technical innovations being implemented rapidly, but there are more regulations than ever to consider, not to mention forthcoming sustainability and fire safety goals.