All Features articles – Page 487
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FeaturesA pain in the back pocket
Want to protect your cement workers from a nasty form of dermatitis? Well, now you can, with the launch of the European chromium VI directive. But where it stops itching the sector’s collective skin, it’ll start hurting pretty badly elsewhere …
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The race to build the £60k houses
The government has come up with a startling solution to the barriers to home ownership: to use public land and industrial production to build 60,000 £60,000 houses. Housebuilders are currently competing to design the prototype. We find out how it’s supposed to work.
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The sustainable communities summit 2005
Prescott and three other Cabinet colleagues are to convene with 2000 housebuilders, architects and public sector experts in Manchester next week to take stock of how the £22bn sustainable communities plan is faring.
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FeaturesTitanic proposal
Architect David Gillooley wants to float a £300m replica of the Titanic on the Mersey.
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FeaturesDung removal machine
Staff at a Wildlife Park needed to move so much earth and dung they upgraded their JCB wheelbarrrow to a machine digger.
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FeaturesSpecifier Products
In this flooring special, everything from swanky City refurbishments to antibacterial finishes for hospital linos – all the latest products to park your feet on. Plus, an update on the news from the industry
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Costs: Wooden floors
Increasingly, wooden laminate floors are being selected as a floor finish. Peter Mayer of Building Performance Group considers the options, key durability criteria and whole-life costs
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FeaturesTsunami diary: the real work begins
Arup civil engineer Anthony Peter, 26, landed in Sri Lanka last week to help with the reconstruction process. In this extended extract from his diary for Building he looks at the task ahead.
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FeaturesVive la France!
Building’s round-up of the 300 biggest European contractors reveals that French firms Vinci and Bouygues have stormed to the top. Sonia Soltani went to Paris to meet the men responsible for the Gallic triumph.
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Galliford Try surges to top of December league
Education and healthcare schemes push contractor into first place ahead of HBG and Kier
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FeaturesLocal lowdown: North London/Home Counties
Robert Smith of Hays Montrose reports on the latest projects and current trends in the north London and Home Counties market
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Special costs: Office fit-out
In the latest of our specialist market overviews, Alexandra McCrow of Gardiner & Theobald looks at the office fit-out sector’s design issues, lead times and costs – and specialist contractor ISG InteriorExterior gets a grilling
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We have no intention of conquering the world
This is one Frenchman who is not going to get caught boasting: “We have no intention of conquering the world. If we are number one, it’s almost by chance.” These are the self-deprecating words of Philippe Ratynski, chairman and chief executive of Vinci Construction, which as part of the Vinci ...
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Monumental ambitions
“Well, we’ve arrived at the Chateau de Versailles,” announces the cab driver, visibly taken aback by the grand scale of Bouygues’ headquarters in the outskirts of Paris. The glass and steel building, dubbed Challenger, is an imposing monument. Equestrian statues and palatial basins complete the picture of a company that ...