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Ecobuild 2012

Ecobuild, the biggest event in the world for sustainable design, construction and the built environment is back on Tuesday 20 – Thursday 22 March at London’s ExCeL exhibition and conference centre.

The Building Centre is proud to be supporting Ecobuild again ...

The Building Centre 80th Anniversary Celebrations

Save the date!

Come and join us to celebrate 80 years of innovation, information and debate at The Building Centre. Our birthday celebrations on the 3 May 2012 will bring together built environment professionals from throughout the country for live music, seminars, ...

The Building Centre wins environmental awards

Our refurbishment project has been recognised at the Environmental Excellence in Camden Organisations (EECO) Awards 2011, when The Building Centre won the ‘Greatest Improvement in Environmental Performance’ category and achieved Highly Commended in the ‘Leadership in the ...

Wienerberger now at The Building Centre

New London showroom for world’s biggest brick manufacturer.

Architects, specifiers and contractors are being invited to explore Wienerberger’s new London showroom at The Building Centre in Store Street. Home to some of the construction industry’s biggest names, ...

Media Partnership with sustain'' Magazine

The Building Centre is pleased to announce it has entered into a Media Partnership with sustain' Magazine. Both parties see the move as a natural match as both share a commitment to providing impartial, need-to-know information for professionals working in the built ...

SBID announces the inaugural International Design Awards

SBID is the official British partner of Maison & Objet and launches the competition to both SBID and non-SBID interior design professionals from around the world. The competition will measure six categories of interior design excellence:

Robin Gibb CBE, singer & ...

BDA Publishes Sustainability Leaflet

As was one of the first UK industrial sectors to publish its sustainability policy, the brick industry established key performance indicators as early as 2002 to assess its progress in matching the targets and aspirations defined in its own sustainability strategy.

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Sustainable World at Ecobuild Networking Reception

Monday 28 February 20111, 18.30 to 20.30
The Building Centre, Store Street, London

This year UK Trade & Investment is launching a flagship events programme at Ecobuild entitled Sustainable World 2011. This programme will bring together international decision ...

Ecobuild 2011

Ecobuild, the biggest event in the world for sustainable design, construction and the built environment is back on Tuesday 01 – Thursday 03 March at its new home at London’s ExCeL exhibition and conference centre.

Plans are well underway for an even bigger event in ...

Surface Design Show

Surface Design Show focuses exclusively on surfaces for building design. The event is where architects, interior designers and building specifiers go to find materials to compliment their designs from hundreds of innovative interior and exterior surface products.
The ...

BAU Munich

BAU 2011, the World's Leading Trade Fair for Architecture, Materials, Systems, takes place from 17 to 22 January 2011 at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre. Over 1,900 exhibitors from more than 40 countries are expected to take part, and more than 210,000 visitors from around ...

Retirement and Promotion

The Building Centre would like to announce that John Gibson has retired from his role as Commercial Director and would like to thank him for all his dedicated hard work within the industry.

John Bonning, former Head of Commercial and Client Services has been ...

The Building Centre Bookshop

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) are delighted to announce that, as from 4th January 2011, The Building Centre Bookshop will be managed by RIBA Enterprises.

The Building Centre Bookshop will benefit from the knowledge and experience that RIBA ...

The Engineering Club

The Building Centre has been hosting The Engineering Club for over 5 years on behalf of a number of local engineering practices. The Engineering Club provides an opportunity for engineers to get together with friends ...

Book launch and Bird Boxes

A new book 'Sustainable Concrete Architecture' by David Bennett was launched at The Building Centre on 29 September. It provides designers with a tool to help calculate the total embodied CO2 in their building designs. Highly illustrated and detailed in scope, 'Sustainable ...

New Offices at The Building Centre

The Building Centre would like to thank the following companies who supplied green materials and technology for new sustainable offices, for which we have been awarded a BREEAM Excellent rating. The offices house UK Green Building Council and the Construction Products ...

UK-GBC launches STEP Programme

UK-GBC’s major new initiative, the Sustainability Training & Education Programme (STEP), will expand knowledge right across the construction and property sector, ‘from mailroom to boardroom’.

The first two STEP courses launch this year.

• An ...

Construction Products Association Launches Loft Conversion Project Guide

A new Loft Conversion Project Guide is now available as a download from the Construction Products Association, which brings together in one volume all the building regulations and other regulatory requirements for loft conversions.

Aimed at builders, building ...

Britain’s best selling quality daily newspaper

The British Homes Awards provide the catalyst for innovation in the way we design and construct our homes, creating exemplars of best practice.
With the support of The Daily Telegraph-with a daily readership of approaching 2 million (of which 86% are ABC1)- ...

Construction Youth Trust moves in to The Building Centre

The Building Centre is pleased to welcome The Construction youth Trust as its newest tenant.

The Construction Youth Trust supports young people whose journey to work can be challenging due to barriers relating to their financial circumstances, lack of awareness ...