KESTREL ISN'T JUST SKIN DEEP
Kestrel believes it offers a unique product range using 100% calcium organic stabilisers. Some roofline manufacturers use calcium organic in the skin of their products, but for Kestrel, it's calcium organic to the core. "Environmental impact is more than just a matter of conscience in today's building industry," says Tony Crutcher, Sales and Marketing Director of Kestrel, "sustainability, whether in building design, the carbon footprint of materials or in the actual building process itself, is under intense scrutiny and increasingly regulation.

Committed to staying ahead of future legislation and market trends, Kestrel has been working on future proofing their products in terms of environmental impact for several years. Eliminating lead content and switching 100% to calcium organic was the first step. They believe they have gone one step further and uniquely, offer the only product that has both a calcium organic core and calcium organic skin surface.

Kestrel have a full range of FastrackCAD drawings available on their section of this website or for more information on Kestrel please visit www.kbp.co.uk Index

CELUTEX - GIVING DESIGN FLEXIBILITY
Celutex is the original, lightweight, shiplap embossed PVC-UE building cladding board from Celuform that provides a stylish and effective means to protect and decorate the exterior of buildings - without the need for continual and costly maintenance and decoration.

It successfully imitates timber with authentic wood grain look-a-like features and can be installed using traditional wood installation skills, practices and tools. Available in two size formats - single plank (150mm) and double plank (300mm) format for rapid installation, Celutex is completely unaffected by damp, rot, decay, frost and is resistant to attack from insects.

Celutex is manufactured using PVC-UE stabilisers guaranteed to give the best colour resistance. Celutex is available in a wide variety of contemporary colours and complemented with a comprehensive range of colour co-ordinated fixing trims to allow extra versatility and design expression.

An extensive range of Celuform CAD drawings are available on FastrackCAD.

For more information please visit www.celuform.co.uk Index

CRITTALL MEASURE UP TO HURRICANE
One of our newest customers Crittall Windows has recently passed USA hurricane testing for their Corporate 2000 range, which are included on FastrackCAD.

The rigorous testing took place in Pennsylvania and their products had to withstand a missile fired from a cannon at a distance of 5.2 metres at 15m/sec and then exposed to air pressure of 4500 cycles.

If you would like to know more about Corporate 2000 windows and these very stringent testing results please contact John Pyatt at Crittall Windows on 01376 530800 or email: hq@crittall-windows.co.uk Index

BILCO LAUNCHES NEW SMOKE VENTILATOR
Leading access doors and vents manufacturer, Bilco UK Ltd., has added a new automatic smoke vent to its extensive range.

The new vent called GEW-50REM offers a clear vent area of 1 square metre and has a translucent double skinned polycarbonate dome cover making it ideal for the residential housing market where a source of natural light is a key requirement, especially if the stairwell is in the core of the building or is surrounded by solid walls.

It meets current UK legislation and can be incorporated within a system designed to BS5588 (part 5) or installed by following recognised codes of practice, such as BRE 79204.

For more information please visit www.bilcouk.com or you can access the comprehensive range of accurate Bilco smoke vent CAD drawings from this website. Index

HADDONSTONE'S FASTRACKCAD DATABASE
Design in classical or traditional style while using modern technology with CAD drawings from Haddonstone - the UK's leading manufacturer of cast stone architectural features. Their collection includes over 500 designs, from columns, porticos and balustrading to window surrounds, copings and quoins. The range can also be used to enhance a contemporary exterior. In addition they have an extensive range of landscape ornaments, including planters, fountains, obelisks and temples that add the finishing touches to any project.

Find the FastrackCAD files under Haddonstone Ltd in our CAD downloads section.
For product information you can contact Haddonstone on 01604 770711 or visit www.haddonstone.com Index

FASTRACKCAD STATISTICS AND FEEDBACK 20/02/08
30,469 users registered - approximately half of these are Architects and the rest split between other disciplines including: Consulting Engineers, Contractors, Local Government.

In excess of 1,500 CAD drawings are downloaded each day from the FastrackCAD website.

Over 200 specifiers log-on each week and half of these are new registrations.

93% of the top 100 UK Architects are registered with FastrackCAD including: BDP International, Foster and Partners, Nightingale Associates, Capita Percy Thomas, Atkins Ltd, HOK/HOK Sport, PRP Architects, Broadway Malyan, Sheppard Robson and Benoy.

71% of the top 100 UK Consulting Engineers registered with FastrackCAD including: Atkins, Halcrow Group, Mott MacDonald, Kellog Brown & Root, Scott Wilson, Arup, Babtie Group, Hyder Consulting, Faber Maunsell and Parsons Brinckerhoff.

60% of the top 100 UK Surveyors registered with FastrackCAD including: Atkins, EC Harris, Faithful & Gould, Davis Langton, Gleeds, Turner & Townsend, Donaldsons, Capita Symonds, Currie & Brown and Drivers Jonas.

73% of the top 30 UK Contractors registered with FastrackCAD including: Balfour Beatty, Skanska, Bovis Lend Lease, Carillion, Kier, Galliford Try, Sir Robert McAlpine, Laing O'Rourke, Rok and HBG Construction.

30,000 CAD drawings available on-line from top manufacturers including: Catnic, Armitage Shanks, Ideal-Standard, Twyfords, Lecico, Saint Gobain Pipelines, Sika, Haddonstone, Kingspan, Swish, Viking Johnson, ICB, Plastal Forticrete and many more - see the FastrackCAD Portfolio for the full listing which is expanding rapidly with new companies signing up every month.

Specifiers would like the following products and companies included on FastrackCAD: Velux, Carey & Fox, roof trusses, ACO Channels, curtain walling, products for the disabled, bathroom towel rails, rooflights, Naylor Drainage, manhole covers, J W Longbottom, cast iron rainwater, kitchen units, Gabion walling, plasterboard, plumbing fittings, Burlington Slate, Fundo shower bases, underground drainage, Schuco, Velfac, Armitage Vanesta, valves, pumps, pipes, Otis, gym equipment, Duravit, Vola, suspended ceilings, medical equipment, sauna, spa & steamroom furniture, porches, lightfittings, radiators, Thorn, Philips, bolt connections, Euroslot, floor grills, Hafele, electrical, fire & security equipment, Hepworth Drainage, hospital fittings, Duofix Systems, cladding and vehicle turning circles, commercial refrigeration suppliers, deli displays, fridges, drink dispensers, coffee machines, juicers, school fixings, street lighting and iron gratings.

For more detailed information - please contact Nick Barclay on 0208 668 4646 or email: nbarclay@techgraf.co.uk Index

FEEDBACK ON FASTRACKCAD FROM SPECIFIER
Dear Nick

Re AKW MediCare drawing downloads

Following our telephone conversation this morning I can confirm that I did download some of AKW MediCare shower details. As I explained I work freelance for development companies and a client asked me to demonstrate the requirements of meeting the Joseph Rowntree Foundation "Designing Lifetime Homes". This was a particular planning condition on a site I was working on.

The facility to download manufacturers details is invaluable and your Fastrack Database is usually my first stop! It gives me the confidence to put forward manufacturers for consideration by my clients, knowing I have carried out the design in great detail, with no 'guessing' on my part how deep a certain shower tray might be etc. Even when obtaining dimensional details from manufacturers I am often left frustrated because the very dimension I need is not included and I then have to resort to calling them and trying to extract the information by telephone which is not always easy.

I always recommend your database to colleagues and all agree it's a great source of information.

Regards

Patrick Doyle
Architectural Technician Index

FASTRACKCAD - MARKETING EFFECTIVELY TO ARCHITECTS
For over 16 years, FastrackCAD have been pioneers of top quality CAD Databases for the Construction industry. Major companies including Catnic, Saint-Gobain, Forticrete, Armitage Shanks, Ideal-Standard and Sika all use the FastrackCAD service for the production of these specification-winning packages.

The FastrackCAD service provides the manufacturer or supplier of building conponents with a very powerful marketing tool that makes it easier for architects to specify their products.

If you are searching for a better way of marketing to Architects, please contact Nick Barclay on 0208 668 4646 or email nbarclay@techgraf.co.uk Index

FASTRACKCAD - FREE OF CHARGE TO ARCHITECTS
The FastrackCAD website contains over 30,000 superbly accurate drawings and is free of charge to architects and specifiers who use CAD.

Included are many of the top building component suppliers including JELD-WEN, Forticrete, Marley, Saint-Gobain, Catnic and Sika.

To download a drawing, visit www.fastrackcad.com then register and logon. A quick and easy menu system will take you to your required CAD drawing which can be downloaded in either dwg or dxf format. Index

FASTRACKCAD COMPLETES NEW UPDATE OF PAMCAD
FastrackCAD have just completed the new update of PamCAD for Saint-Gobain Pipelines.

This very popular CAD Database is used extensively in the water and sewage industry and simplifies the design process when specifying pressure pipelines, valves and manhole covers.

PamCAD is available on the FastrackCAD website or via a link on the Saint-Gobain site www.saint-gobain-pipelines.co.uk

You can also request a CD-ROM version, which has many very useful design tools by telephoning 0800 028 2134 or email brochures.uk.pipelines@saint-gobain.com Index

MUMFORD & WOOD LAUNCH THE PERFORMANCE NEWSLETTER
You can now access all the latest news and information about FastrackCAD's customer Mumford & Wood, the leading timber window and door manufacturer, through their quarterly electronic newsletter, Performance.

Containing everything you need to know about their newly awarded product accreditations and achievements, completed project applications, business stories and personnel moves, the Performance newsletter provides a quick resume of all that's new and topical from Mumford & Wood - the perfect answer for busy materials specifiers, housebuilders, contractors and self-builders.

Register on-line at: www.mumfordwood.com; email: laura@mumfordwood.com, or call 01621 818155 and simply opt into the Performance database. Index

IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO ARCHITECTS & SPECIFIERS
Dear FastrackCAD User,

We would like to thank you for your very helpful feedback regarding the introduction of a trial subscription charge for FastrackCAD, which we have been testing over the past few months.

All of your feedback has been carefully considered and we have reached a decision based on your responses to now revert back to offering FastrackCAD free of charge to all of our registered users.

The whole trial has been extremely useful; we have gained some excellent responses. In addition we are very heartened by your positive support of FastrackCAD.

From today, you can access FastrackCAD free via www.fastrackcad.com and completing the registration section, if you are already registered simply login as normal and choose your required CAD detail.

Please let me know if you require any further information, in the meantime, thank you once again for your support of FastrackCAD.

Best Regards

Nick Barclay

Tel: 0208 668 4646
Email: nbarclay@techgraf.co.uk Index

IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO BUILDING COMPONENT SUPPLIERS
Dear FastrackCAD Customer,

We are pleased to inform you that the testing of the subscription version of our FastrackCAD service is now complete and we would like to thank all our clients for the very useful responses and ideas.

As a result of your feedback we have now reverted back to providing FastrackCAD completely free of charge once again to all our registered architects and specifiers via www.fastrackcad.com

This means that from today the 'Snippets CAD downloads feedback' feature returns to full operational service.

Finally thank you once again for your very valuable support of our FastrackCAD service.

Regards

Nick Barclay & Terry Holding

Tel: 0208 668 4646
Email: nbarclay@techgraf.co.uk Index