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  • Features

    Costs: Wooden floors

    2005-01-21T13:55:00Z

    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

  • Features

    Checklist

    2005-01-21T13:50:00Z

    Flooring is the finish that is subject to the most constant and demanding use, which makes it a big challenge to the specifier. Barbour Index and Scott Brownrigg look at the keys to success

  • Features

    Flooring

    2005-01-21T11:22:00Z

    Post-tensioned concrete flooring is enjoying a recent and rapid rise in popularity and is now competing with metal deck composite flooring.

  • Features

    Galliford Try surges to top of December league

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Education and healthcare schemes push contractor into first place ahead of HBG and Kier

  • Features

    Appointments

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Movers and shakers this week

  • Features

    Local lowdown: North London/Home Counties

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Robert Smith of Hays Montrose reports on the latest projects and current trends in the north London and Home Counties market

  • Vive la France!
    Features

    Vive la France!

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Features

    We have no intention of conquering the world

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • Features

    Monumental ambitions

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    “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 ...

  • French Top 300
    Features

    Europe's Top 300

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Building’s round-up of the 300 biggest European contractors reveals that French firms Vinci and Bouygues have stormed to the top.

  • News

    Wolseley rides high on global profit growth

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Wolseley’s share price rose 59.5p, or 6%, on Monday after it posted a confident trading update for the first half of its financial year.

  • News

    DTI survey shows 3% rise in construction orders

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Construction orders rose overall 3% last year, but slowed towards the end of the year, according to a survey by the DTI.

  • News

    Arup returns to Middle East

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Engineer Arup is set to return to the Middle East five years after pulling out of the region, with its researchers assessing a number of projects in the area.

  • Michael Latham
    Comment

    A morass of ministries

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    How to provide better representation for the construction industry and keep David Blunkett out of trouble, all in one simple government shake-up

  • Hansom
    Comment

    Hansom

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Revealing the fine line between designing houses and alcoholism, the violent past of a famous architect and a new role for Winnie the Pooh

  • Leeds college
    Features

    Check!

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Yorkshire architect Halliday Clark has created a striking chequerboard rebuke to drab suburban Leeds – and housed 450 members of the city’s teeming student population in the process.

  • Comment

    It’s so unfair

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    A court will overrule an adjudicator who has breached the rules of natural justice. An engineer acting under an ICE contract is under no such restrictions …

  • Tony Bingham
    Comment

    East, west, probity’s best

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    In donating to the Asian tsunami appeal, generosity is tempered by cynicism over how contracts will be run. But at least the World Bank has found some answers

  • Comment

    The importance of being impartial

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Architects who act as contract administrators have an obligation to be fair to all parties. This has dangers that can bring with it serious personal risk

  • Comment

    Anyone for tort?

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    The law of negligence underpins the legal system. It is therefore just a teeny bit disturbing that the courts can’t seem to decide what it says or who it applies to