Cast Stone News & Events

UKCSA Coming of Age (February 2012)

The inaugural meeting of the United Kingdom Cast Stone Association (UKCSA) was held on 20th February 1991, and in 2012 the Cast Stone Association celebrates 21 years as the guardian of quality for cast stone.

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UKCSA at Ecobuild, Excel, London (January 2012)

The UK Cast Stone Association have agreed to take a larger stand at the forthcoming Ecobuild exhibition. UKCSA will now be on a 5m x 3m stand, stand S971, at the Ecobuild exhibition to be held at ExCel, London from Tuesday 20th March until Thursday 23rd March 2012.

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UKCSA responds to Autumn Statement on BBC News (November 2011)

In a live BBC Wales news interview on 29 November , UKCSA chair Andy Cotton said that measures announced by the Chancellor in his Autumn Statement didn’t go far enough to get construction moving again, nor to satisfy the huge pent-up demand for housing supply. Although Cotton welcomed the right to buy for social tenants and kick-starting some stalled projects, he said that a greater stimulus was required for the construction sector, which would lead to a shot in the arm for the economy. Cotton is managing director of UKCSA member PD Edenhall and the interview was broadcast live from the company’s factory at Risca, Newport. The company manufactures a range of quality cast stone, brick and precast products.

UKCSA Member gets Miliband’s seal of approval (November 2011)

When Labour leader Ed Miliband visited cast stone manufacturer Pennine Stone in his Doncaster constituency this week, he praised the company for investing in people and planning for the long-term .....

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Laying the Foundations: A Housing Strategy for England (November 2011)

A radical new strategy to reignite the housing market and get the nation building again was launched on 21 November by the Prime Minister. The Housing Strategy sets out a package of reforms to:

• get the housing market moving again
• lay the foundations for a more responsive, effective and stable housing market in the future
• improve environmental standards and design quality

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NHBC Guidance on Cast Stone (October 2011)

Cast stone has again been recognised in NHBC Standards and the use of features made from cast stone should comply to BS217 or the higher standard adopted by members of the UKCSA. This latest guidance was issued in the October issue of Technical Extra, which the NHBC uses to communicate technical information to the industry .

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David Jason starts new MS centre (October 2011)

Sir David Jason OBE has officially opened the building works at the new Chilterns Multiple Sclerosis Centre building in Wendover, by laying a commemorative cast stone plaque supplied by Pennine Stone, a subsidiary of UKCSA member Haddonstone.

Pennine Stone's TecLite fibre reinforced cast stone material was chosen for the plaque because of its inherent lightness and strength.

NHBC Housing Statistics (October 2011)

Latest statistics from the NHBC indicate that there were 103,100 new housing starts in the UK in the last 12 months, compared to 111,500 for the preceding 12 month period. However, and more encouragingly, new site starts in September at 1040 were almost twice as high as had been recorded in recent months.

Cast stone is finding a growing market with house builders and self-builders who want their properties to stand out. There’s a simple reason why. Cast stone offers class at an affordable price. The material adds kerb appeal, saleability and provides a close match to quarried natural stone at a fraction of the cost.

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Grant Shapps: Building homes is the only solution to housing crisis (October 2011)

Housing Minister Grant Shapps has indicated that we need to be building more than 200,000 new homes each year to resolve the current UK housing shortage, in an interview on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.

He outlined the Government's three pronged approach to stimulate house building, including extending right to buy, releasing Government land for house building and reforming the planning system, stating "Over all you have to get all things working in tandem, there is not one single thing you can do to solve a housing crisis that has been building up over years and years." He went on to say that the Government would be "putting out a housing strategy next month and we're going to talk a lot more about those things in that as well."

Building Innovations magazine (May - June 2011)

An article by the UK Cast Stone Association entitled "An Appealing Alternative To Quarried Natural Stone" featured in the May - June 2011 issue of Building Innovations magazine, and is available to download below

UKCSA supports the "Plan B" campaign (May 2011)

The UK Cast Stone Association is pleased to support Get Britain Building's "Plan B" campaign.

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Landscape Show, Olympia, London (April 2011)

Artificial or Natural Stone?

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UKCSA Technical Manual for Cast Stone (March 2011)

Standard reference for cast stone revised and updated.

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20 Years of UKCSA (February 2011)

The inaugural meeting of the United Kingdom Cast Stone Association (UKCSA) was held on 20th February 1991.

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Cast Stone or Natural Stone? (October 2010)

Cast stone has been a familiar and much-used alternative to carved natural stone in the UK since Georgian times. It evokes a sense of timelessness which fits in with any form of massive construction .

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Cast Stone Ecodesign (October 2010)

UKCSA members are leading the way with innovative products in cast stone for sustainable environmental design.

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UKCSA expands its quality membership (April 2010)

Procter Cast Stone has become the latest full member of the UK Cast Stone Association (UKCSA), the guardian of quality for cast stone stone and representing the leading manufacturers.

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Congratulations to NHBC Pride in the Job Winners (February 2010)

Congratulations to two winners in the UK’s only award for site managers.  The NHBC Pride in the Job competition was established to improve build quality and raise the standard of service to home buyers.......

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Top marks for cast stone (February 2010)

Cast stone supplied by UKCSA members is proving itself the material of choice for the new generation of schools, including the government’s  Building Schools for the Future and Academies programmes as well as independent schools.......

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All data on this website is for information only and is to the best of our knowledge current and correct. UKCSA presents this information without guarantee and cannot be held liable for any consequential claims. UKCSA members will be able to advise you in more detail on all aspects of cast stone specific to their products and supply.