Engineering

Charting A Course in Luxury Renovations

Andrew Sheppard of Chartwell, the Monaco-based company specialising in the construction and renovation of luxury homes, is up-beat about the future. October will see the opening of their new office in St James’s in London: “We foresee there will be more interest from the UK at the top end of the residential market in both Monaco and the Cote d’Azur. Our English speaking clientele draw comfort from the fact that they can talk to us with confidence about their property needs.” The company, co-owned by Andrew and partner Stephanie, is just six months old after receiving the permission from the Monaco authorities to operate in the Principality. Prior to this, through his former French company, Andrew Sheppard has carried out almost 300 renovation projects in the South of France over the last five years. Read the rest of this press release »

Engineering | January 7th, 2010

Fabrics: four new fabrics in Resstende collection

Resstende, specialist in the production of blinds, widens its range of interior fabrics by adding Silverscreen, Natura, Idea Screen and Dream.

Silverscreen guarantees high protection from solar irradiation and at the same time a high level of transparency: it is a perfect solution to control both light and solar heat. This fabric is coated with a thin aluminium layer and this keeps the summer heat out thanks to its reflection property; while during the winter heat loss is reduced. This leads to considerable energy savings both for heating up and for freshing up the environments by affecting the costs positively. That’s not everything: a more efficient use of air conditioning and heating plants means less CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. Read the rest of this press release »

Engineering | December 24th, 2009

“Gold” effect shading for the Helvetia Insurance Building

Designed and developed by Resstende the system is perfectly integrated in the building façade and emphasises its beauty by creating a precious chromatism. The principal targets of the project are energy saving, correct lighting and wind resistance.

Resstende supplied more than 200 shading systems to the Milan Headquarter of the Insurance group Helvetia.
The system becomes an integral part of the building; it reduces the thermal transmission by giving impulse to energy saving and it ensures a correct lighting to the environments.
By creating a minimal environmental impact, this project, seated in via Cassins, adds more value to the building thanks to the gold colour of Soltis 86 fabric. This impressive colour gives a precious effect to the building structure by emphasizing its strong identity. Read the rest of this press release »

Engineering | December 24th, 2009

Canada’s most sophisticated dimensional measurement centre

Canadian measurement metrology’s high technology Centre in Ayr Ontario (near Cambridge) has been open now for two years, providing our customers with high-technology solutions for complex measurement and reverse engineering problems.

In the last two years we added many new high-technology pieces of equipment to complement our measuring machines. We now have capability on all our machines to utilize the Renishaw SP 25 scanning probe system. This allows us to use styli up to 400 mm long, without any degradation of accuracy or lobing error commonly associated with trigger probing. The benefits to customers are more accurate diameters and form measurements. Read the rest of this press release »

Engineering | December 9th, 2009

Enzo Milano Grande curling iron is one of the most popular Enzo Milano 25mm curling iron models

Good quality curling irons are hair styling products that have the potential to help every woman look a million bucks with a brilliant hair do. Enzo Milano is one of the most preferred names in the hair styling industry. They have many different types of curling irons and their Enzo Milano Grande curling iron is one of the best performing in its category. Enzo Milano 25mm curling iron models such as the Grande are created using the best technology and technique and are especially designed to meet every woman’s desire and expectation to look and feel like a magazine model or a movie star! Read the rest of this press release »

Engineering | November 19th, 2009