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Tread carefully
It’s an extraordinary statistic but the Health and Safety Executive estimates that one serious slip accident occurs every three minutes in the UK.
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FeaturesWhite flooring
A former luggage shop in St Peter Port, Guernsey, has been transformed into a dazzling white, minimalist hairdressing salon with the help of Flowcrete.
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FeaturesRubber flooring
Artigo has launched its latest rubber floor covering collection, designed in conjunction with architect Sottsass Associati.
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New carpets designs
Milliken Carpet Europe has launched a collection called Line Up, featuring four designs.
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Hard wearing flooring
Addagrip is launching Deco, a decorative floor finish aimed at schools, offices and retail outlets. The company says the floor, made of a mix of coloured quartz, is seamless and hardwearing.
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Light steel frame flooring
Light Steel Frame Solutions has developed Strucmet, an engineering system that includes lightweight steel infill panels for internal and external walls, steel floor joists, structural lattice systems, factory-fitted pods and cladding systems.
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A-rated carpets
Carpet manufacturer Burmatex has launched a range aimed at the education, leisure, commercial, healthcare and public sectors.
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Loop carpet tiles
Desso has introduced Freestyle, a loop pile carpet tile, which it says can be laid in a random format.
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Safety flooring
Safetred Dimension Wood PU is the latest development in safety flooring from Tarkett.
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Anti-slip decking
JB Antislip Plus decking now has coloured, resin-based aggregate inserts that are injected into the grooves of the deckboard to provide better grip and safety.
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FeaturesCMS Vibration Solutions: Quiet, please
CMS Vibration Solutions, part of the £15m-turnover CMS Group, was set up just two years ago and specialises in anti-vibration and structural isolation for all types of developments. With 16 employees across its offices in Warrington and Colchester, the company has been involved in projects ranging from the nanoscience laboratory ...
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FeaturesBison: Set to succeed
Established in 1919, Bison specialises in the design and manufacture of structural precast concrete products. Precast flooring accounts for about 80% of its products and includes hollow, core, solid and composite floors. The company has a turnover of about £100m a year and has four factories across the UK, including ...
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Building Intelligence Q3 2007: Hidden cracks
New work pushed the industry forward last year, but the modest growth figures masked significant variation across the sectors, says Experian Business Strategies
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The tracker: Getting the jitters
The industry is still expanding but the uncertainty in the financial markets is starting to make itself felt in the civil engineering sector. Experian Business Strategies reports
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FeaturesThe secret life of buildings
We hear an awful lot about architects’ splendid low-energy designs, but information about how they actually work when built is rarer than hens’ teeth. So we should all be grateful to Simons, which not only built itself a green office, but collected a year’s data on how it functioned. ...
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Aylesbury Vale eco-town could fund Oxford rail link
Planned Buckinghamshire development could contribute £15m to £150m East-West railway
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FeaturesThe path to power
News analysis: The government has willed the creation of the first nuclear reactors since 1995, but to get them it needs to erect a new planning system, overcome opposition from a host of enemies – some within the construction industry – and work out a way to store toxic waste ...
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FeaturesMeet the new nanny
Lance Taylor is chief executive of Rider Levett Bucknall, a global QS that, according to him, resembles a ‘65-year-old toddler’. Here the rugby-playing hard man tells Karolin Schaps how he plans to nurture it through its teething problems.
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Features‘What’s missing is an understanding of what works and what doesn’t’
Construction accounts for about 10% of GDP, so why is a measly £5m being invested in its R&D? Stephen Kennett looks at the steady evaporation of funding – particularly for the publication of practical guidance – but wonders if we only have ourselves to blame