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February greetings!

Here at Construction Specialties we haven’t been letting the wintry weather get the better of us and have been ploughing ahead (pun intended!) helping architects, contractors and owners protect their building interiors from snow, slips and all manner of bumps, scrapes and bacteria.


So without further ado, here are some building protection tips and inspiration to see you through to March (and hopefully spring)...

Our latest advice:

Keeping a busy hotel looking smart and welcoming is no easy task.  Daily wear and tear from guests and staff can quickly take their toll, leaving even the newest or most recently renovated hotel looking scruffy and poorly maintained.

Here are seven of our customer favourites that have proved particularly popular for keeping hotel interiors looking smarter longer, as well as helping to reduce long-term building maintenance costs.

If you’re designing a new car park or refurbishing an existing car park, finding ways to reduce long-term costs, as well as maintain a clean and welcoming car park environment, can be a challenge.

Here are four ways you can meet that challenge by reducing maintenance costs and keeping your car park looking good for years to come.

Interior finishes have a huge impact on the building and maintenance costs of a hospital as well as the health and safety of all building users.

At C/S we’ve been helping hospitals cut costs and improve safety for over 30 years with our range of tried and tested building protection products, including wall protection, door protection, hygienic coatings, entrance flooring and hygienic expansion joint covers.  

So if budgets are tight and improving infection control is a priority, here are five ways to help cut the costs and improve the safety of your hospital.

What’s the first thing that catches a visitors’ eye when they arrive at your building? It is of course your entrance.

Is it dirty or spotless? Are the aesthetics clean or cluttered? Is your entrance matting doing it’s job or is there a trail of grime to your reception desk?

The second blog post in our series of Approved Document M Compliance. As described in our previous blog post Approved Document M - Entering a Building, Approved Document M draws on BS8300:2010 for guidance on the reasonable provisions which should be made for people to access and use a building.

The main objective of Approved Document M is to enable all people to travel around a building safely and without risk of personal injury. It draws on BS8300:2010 for guidance on the reasonable provisions which should be made for people to access and use a building.

Stopping water ingress at the expansion joint is crucial, especially in situations like football stadiums where there are often conference suites and corporate entertaining rooms immediately below areas exposed to the elements.

The updated version of the British Standard BS8300:2009+A1:2010: Design of buildings and their approaches to meet the needs of disabled people – Code of Practice states:

"the ingress of soil and surface moisture to buildings...should be reduced to the lowest practicable levels, e.g. through the use of appropriate entrance flooring systems (BS 7953)"

Making hospitals safer by halting the spread of infectious diseases such as MRSA is a top priority for health care providers.

Here at C/S we're well known for our Acrovyn hygienic wall protection, but our discrete range of hygienic floor joint covers for hospitals can be harder to spot.