Mike Glennon, Joint Managing Director of Irish Timber processing firm, Glennon Brothers, was speaker at Wood NI’s Timber Seminar at the Ulster Hall in Belfast today (Wed 12th Oct), organised in conjunction with PLACE (the Architecture and Built Environment Centre for Northern Ireland).

The Seminar, entitled ‘Timber Construction and Design in Northern Ireland: Using Sustainable and Renewable Materials’, saw Mike Glennon speak about the importance of using home-grown timber, the wider Irish Sawmilling Sector and Glennon Brothers’ own application of home-grown timber.

Rock, the UK market leader for over 40 years in mastic asphalt and building waterproof technologies is continuing to redefine its relationship with the market. Rock have expanded their supply and contractual services from traditional roofing products to the provision of high tech “Green Roofs” and even “Green Wall” systems.  Rock was in fact responsible for the construction of the largest Green Roof in the capital at Canon Street.

 Young people working towards a career in gas engineering will be able to gain valuable hands-on training thanks to a new contract between Kier North Tyneside and leading training provider JTL to tackle youth unemployment in the region. The contract will see all JTL gas trainees carry out their appliances assessments at Kier’s brand new gas assessment centre in Killingworth, which provides state-of-the-art gas training facilities to the whole of the north-east.

A vibrant new urban quarter on the site of the old steel works at Ebbw Vale has achieved an exemplary rating under BRE’s masterplanning tool for creating sustainable communities Greenprint It is the first UK project to do so.

The regeneration project in Blaenau Gwent, in the South Wales Valleys began in 2005. It will provide a revitalised community which will act as a flagship project for delivering the Welsh Government’s sustainable development agenda.