The Natural Stone Specialist

featured in this month's Natural Stone Specialist…

• Setting the standard : The BSI
  It can be hard to keep up with the standards available for building products, especially as they are frequently changing. In this column, Barry Hunt will throw some light on the standards used for...

• The Merry Month : Too many acronyms
  Robert Merry, an independent stone consultant and project manager who ran his own company for 17 years and now also runs training courses on project management, gives his personal slant on the stone...

• Marketing : The right time to cut the budget?
  Alan Gayle is a sales and marketing consultant specialising in the construction industry. In this column he offers advice on how to make an impact in the market. This time he wonders: Should you...

• The Mystery Surfer : There in black and white
  The NSS Mystery Surfer trawls the internet to find the latest website developments by companies in the stone industry. This month he stopped at www.floortesters.com.

  There is a new website...

• Readers projects : Bath Water Holes
  A project in Bath aims to replace plastic bottles of water with Dyson-designed re-usable stainless steel flasks filled from DeLank granite fountains produced by Galloway Granite. The first of these...

• Report : Hard Landscaping
  The Chinese grey granite G603 has had a major impact on urban landscaping, being incorporated into projects throughout the British Isles. But there are alternatives and as planners and designers...

• Hard landscaping : CED pave the way to the Stone Show
  

  If you stay at the new Aloft Hotel when you go to ExCeL London for the Natural Stone Show next year (30 April-2 May) you will be able to enjoy an excellent example of the work of natural stone...

• Hard landscaping : Marshalls supply the stone for Exhibition Road
  

  London’s Exhibition Road, which runs from South Kensington to Hyde Park, joins some of the most important visitor attractions in the country – the Victoria & Albert Museum, the...

• Report : Stone impresses the judges at the ‘fabulous’ Tile Awards
  

  The tile industry gathered in the Birmingham Hilton Hotel on 21 April for what were flagged up as the ‘fabulous’ Tile Association Awards, the annual celebration of what’s best...

• Workshop : Sustainability
  

  It can be difficult to know what to do to get stone’s sustainability message to customers. Conferences by BRE in Garston and York last month, organised by Stone Federation Great Britain with...

• Business to business : the carbon challenge
  Forest Pennant has spent thousands of pounds determining the carbon footprint of its paving products in order to achieve PAS 2050 certification. Now you can use the spreadsheet devised for Forest...