As February draws to a close, so too does our wonderful project in Hyde Park Gate, London. Located on the southern boundary of Kensington Gardens, between Queen’s Gate and De Vere Gardens, Hyde Park Gate is an area of great prestige; housing international embassies and also known as the location of Sir Winson Churchill’s former residence.

Happy New Year everyone! 2025 has started with aplomb! In November 2023’s journal, we featured our then new retrofit project, Claridge House. Well, a little over a year later, and we are now handing the completed project over.

Purchasing a property to carry out a restoration project is an intimidating task for anyone, let alone a Grade I listed manor house. Fortunately, our client knew the building well and had fallen in love with it.

Purchasing a property to carry out a restoration project is an intimidating task for anyone, let alone a Grade I listed manor house. Fortunately, our client knew the building well and had fallen in love with it.

This month’s journal article explores the historical development of steel in construction, its inherent properties that confer strength, its role in modern construction, and its longevity and future potential.

This month we determine that people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones… they should throw parties!

Straw, sticks and bricks… I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll get right behind those three little pigs and applaud their building choices, says Dorcas George-Jones.Innovation in house building has come an awfully long way since a certain three little pigs pitched their...

What you see is so often not what others see. I was quite surprised recently when, during a conversation with an architect, he commented that a particular job he was working on was not ‘Castellum’s kind of thing’.

The dictionary definition of ‘Topping Out’ is “The completion of the structure of a building, usually when the final part of the roof is completed”. This formal ritual is to bring a building luck.

Off-grid living for the hippie chic (no longer the preserve of the tree huggers)The dictionary definition of ‘off-grid’ is ‘not connected to or served by publicly or privately managed utilities (such as electricity, gas or water)’.