Until the beginning of the 20th century, stone was the preferred building material in France, giving the French an architectural heritage the whole world comes to admire and now the object of intense restoration. Until recently forgotten by architects and engineers for building works, stone is now back in force! Its environmental qualities are increasingly […]
This year, a customer looking for a Natural Slate roof in Australia was asking me: "how to be unique ? …" I said Multicolor ? He replied that the Multicolor was very popular and many houses had Chinese slates on their roofs… I said Black ? He replied that it was very nice but some houses in Melbourne had […]
In Northwest of Spain, in Galicia you will find some black… GOLD ! That is the way we call it in this rocky region. It is probably the smalest part of Spain so well known all over the world. From Asia up to Europe or the Americas, Spanish Slate is traveling the world. It gives […]
A roofer’s work ranges from re-slating a roof, to restoring lead sheets on an old building. What does a roofer do ? You would mainly work on either flat or pitched (sloped) roofs using the following methods: sloped roof – slating and tiling, using traditional or synthetic slates or roof tiles flat roof – fitting […]
For centuries it was the material which protected buildings across Britain – both humble and magnificent – from the elements, before the slate workings which produced it were abandoned in the late 1960s. As reclaimed slate from derelict farm buildings became cheaper to find, Collyweston slate from mines in Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire was no longer […]
La pizarra da trabajo a 2.400 personas de manera directa, aunque es un sector poco conocido al concentrarse principalmente en las comarcas de Valdeorras y Quiroga Se le llama el oro negro de Galicia. Se corta con diamante (sí, sí, con diamante). Es el trabajo directo de más de 2.400 personas y emplea a unas […]
Damage to roofs caused by poor air quality and central heating means plenty of restoration work for Nigel Smith’s company. Smith in his workshop © Tim George Nigel The village of Collyweston is surrounded by great slopes of stone. This part of England — near Stamford, where Lincolnshire meets Northamptonshire — is the old haunt […]
El Cluster de la Pizarra acepta aumentar los sueldos del sector un 0,50% en el preacuerdo de convenio firmado junto con UGT y en el que queda pendiente que se adhieran CCOO y CIG. La patronal ha aceptado esta subida a cambio de realizar modificaciones en lo que respecta al artículo 18, que recoge […]
Sessions Village, based on the timeless historic quality of a French Village, offers us to day a unique and exciting alternative in housing design and community planning. As an architect, I welcome discussing how this concept of design can be better planning and environmentally alternative while being profitable for a developer. I bring an […]
Franck Buet fait partie d’une espèce en voie de disparition : il lutte âprement pour préserver l’une des dernières ardoisières de France. Les « 7 Pieds » extraient la pierre de Morzine, la célèbre ardoise, l’un des plus puissants symboles du chalet haut-savoyard tel qu’on le rêve. Si le travail ne manque pas – signe […]
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