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Designing for Wellbeing: Mental Health Awareness Week 2026
This Mental Health Awareness Week, we’re exploring the correlations between conscious, thoughtful design and improved mental and physical health. We’ve shared some of the core ways architects can improve their projects to better support wellbeing and highlighted a few Bimstore manufacturers who promote holistic design across the lifecycle of a project.
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Introducing Vue: Bimstore’s New Custom Configurator
Bimstore’s expert Technical Team have developed a sophisticated new custom configurator, Vue, which seamlessly combines entire product ranges. This tool benefits both manufacturers and specifiers by making even the most complex product ranges easy to display and configure online.
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Were You a Part of the UK BIM Crew?
This April marks Bimstore’s 15th year. It’s a moment to look back beyond the platform itself, to the circumstances and industry shift that led to its creation. Alongside the conception of Bimstore came the UK BIM Crew, a collective who shared emerging ideas and challenged conventional thinking, united by a shared interest in a more efficient way of working. Were you a part of the UK BIM Crew during the early years of BIM?
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BIMCRUNCH Spring '26 is here: read our new edition today!
This Spring Edition of BIMCRUNCH celebrates a new way of thinking across the built environment, reflecting trends in material innovation, building safety compliance, and low-carbon heating systems. This edition features insights from leading UK and Australian manufacturers, alongside feature articles on digital workflows and smart modelling. We also close the first quarter with the exciting news that Bimstore's parent company has been recertified as a B Corp organisation.
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The Carbon Footprint of a Luminaire: Are we Fixating on the Wrong Bit?
The commercial lighting industry talks a lot about sustainability. And that’s a good thing. The problem is, however, where we are spending our effort. Mount Lighting share the truth about the carbon footprint of Luminaire in their recent blog post.
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Get into the Chelsea Flower Show Spirit with FireSilx
Every May, Chelsea sets the tone for how we think about greenery in designed spaces. FireSilx and Bimstore make it easier to carry that thinking into your next project.
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Ideal Heating Case Study: Hawthorne Primary School
Hawthorn Primary School is a co-educational primary academy located in Cantley, Doncaster, providing education for children from early years through Year 6. The site comprises multiple buildings of differing ages and construction types, which together accommodate classrooms, shared learning spaces and support facilities.
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Siderise Case Study: G-Gate Building, Olympia Exhibition Centre
The £1.3 billion transformation of Olympia Exhibition Centre is one of London’s most exciting redevelopments, blending its iconic 140-year-old Victorian halls with modern design to create a dynamic, multi-purpose destination.
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Recticel Insulation opens new Industrial-Scale Recycled Polyol Plant, closing the loop on PIR circularity
Recticel Insulation proudly announces the opening of its new industrial-scale recycled polyol plant in Wevelgem (Belgium), a major milestone in the company’s long-term sustainability strategy and a decisive step toward circularity in the insulation sector.
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Albion Valves (UK) Limited launches EasyFlow and EasyFlow Pro
Albion Valves (UK) Limited launches EasyFlow and EasyFlow Pro: a combination valve assembly for modern multi-occupancy buildings
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Siderise Case Study: 989 6th Avenue Manhattan
Siderise CW-FS120 Firestop was specified to provide floor-to-floor compartmentation on this building located in midtown New York, between the Empire State Building and Bryant Park. Read more about the ongoing project here.
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Hedgehog Awareness Week 2026: Download Timloc’s Hedgehog Highway from Bimstore
May 3rd–9th marks Hedgehog Awareness Week, an initiative established by The British Hedgehog Preservation Society.For one manufacturer on Bimstore, the Hedgehog Pledge is already ingrained in the brand's culture. Timloc Building Products, though best known for manufacturing and supplying sustainable building alternatives, offers one product that stands out from the rest: The Hedgehog Highway.
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Glidevale Protect supports roofing refurbishment and installation at Bristol development
Building products manufacturer Glidevale Protect has supplied a range of roofing and ventilation solutions as part of the refurbishment of a mixed-use residential scheme in Bristol where it also successfully trialled a new initiative.