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Members of the public have voted the UCD Student Centre as the winner of the Public Choice Award in this year’s Irish Architecture Awards. The building was designed by Dublin based Fitzgerald Kavanagh & Partners, received 18% of the 12,500…
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Senior Architectural Systems are well known in the UK as a leading window systems provider of aluminium and ‘Hybrid’ systems for commercial and residential use.
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Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has announced that it will be publishing a new analysis of the smart window market in June of this year.
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