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Home improvement updates that provide a return on investment

In the UK, first time buyers typically save for eight years for a deposit to buy a home. While most buyers choose a home that accommodates their current lifestyle, considering its potential resale value is also important. However, with complete home renovation being a costly project, which home improvements will provide a significant return on investment?

Leading bathroom brand VitrA introduces the Voyage collection, a collaboration with the award-winning multi-disciplinary artist and designer Arik Levy.

Inspired by his time living and working in Japan, Arik Levy worked closely with VitrA’s in-house design team to create a bathroom collection that allows both mind and body to relax.

The roofs at King George Hospital had become in urgent need of repair and posed a risk for leaks. Serving over 750,000 patients as part of the Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust, it was critical for this to be addressed.

• The showcase for social, digital & connected, green & sustainable living has commenced in Central Europe
• Panasonic’s global Smart Cities portfolio extended with this European Lighthouse project
• In place to continue surpassing competition regarding market growth in the “Residential Energy Saving Equipment”

Valley Vets, based in Gwaelod y Garth in South Wales is a state-of-the-art, hightech facility providing animal care with ten consulting rooms and six operating theatres, plus hydrotherapy, physiotherapy and two x-ray suites.

APT Skidata, one of the world’s leading parking solutions providers, has completed the first phase of a five-year project within Paradise, a major redevelopment of Birmingham’s civic centre being led by development managers, Argent.

• Designed for small hotels, supermarkets, restaurants etc, for central heating projects
• Large, easy to use touch screen display
• Built in MODBUS IP for remote access for off-site management

The current UK government advice is for everyone in the UK to practice social distancing – limiting face-to-face contact with people who are not in your household and maintaining a two-metre distance between one another.

Leading bathroom brand VitrA introduces the Voyage collection, a collaboration with the award-winning multi-disciplinary artist and designer Arik Levy.

One of England’s most iconic venues is undergoing a huge £25m rebuild with help from Polypipe Building Services.

• Specially designed for new homes and low energy houses
• R32 refrigerant reaching A+++ energy class (35ºC)
• More capacity in heating & cooling even during adverse ambient temperatures
• Compact design for space-saving possibilities

The Bicester Courtyard Centre, located a few miles North of Oxford, is a Grade 2 listed building which required a new platform lift to allow access to the upper level.

Their existing platform lift had been in place for over 20 years, but hadn’t been working for a number of years. Ability Lifts first removed, and disposed of this lift before replacing it with their Optimum 400 external platform lift.

Sliding and folding door hardware manufacturer, P C Henderson, has recently donated materials to help with the rebuild of a primary school in Nepal after it was left devastated by an earthquake in 2015.

When approached to work on a large residential new-build housing project in Walthamstow, leading waterproofing and roofing expert, Langley Waterproofing Systems Ltd was on-hand to provide the ideal solution with Approved Contractor, T & T Roofing Limited.

With Construction companies back to work and social distancing measures in place, JSP have developed the new Helmet Mounted Cough Guard, an easy to fit screen which provides an extra layer of secondary protection against droplets and aerosols.

Polypipe Building Services, the UK’s leading developer of water management solutions for the commercial sector, will help to complete one of the largest construction projects ever commissioned by a UK university.