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Features
Gyvlon: Crackdown
Any firms interested in finding a flooring material that is faster and greener than traditional screeds, doesn’t need reinforcement and won’t shrink may be interested in Gyvlon …
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Bernard Kasriel: Realpolitic
Bernard Kasriel, chief executive of Lafarge, talks about environment-friendly technology, negotiating with suspicious governments and the delicate business of digging enormous great holes
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Plasterboard: Hush hush
Changes in planning policy have elevated plasterboard from a way to subdivide a room into a vital tool of government policy. But only if it passes stringent acoustic tests. So how is the next generation is meeting the challenge?
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Roofs: Powersharing
The roofing industry is being crowbarred away from its traditions by a mixture of government regulation and market imperatives. Luckily, this process is being helped by an evolutionary leap in materials technology …
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Walker’s big score
The thing is, there must be 50 ways to screw up a £1bn project, and if you can think of 25 of them, you’re a genius. We talk to a man who’s trying to do even better than that …
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Local lowdown: Central Scotland
Robert Smith of Hays Montrose says that, in central Scotland, PFIs are leading the way
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News
Mace launches in-house recruitment consultant
Business aims to fill 600 internal vacancies over next year while providing recruitment service to rivals
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Sharewatch: Amec’s chasing Amey
So it looks like Amec is hell-bent on abandoning the construction sector.
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Galliford Try aims to double house sales in three years
Company plans to sell 1250 homes and abandon the luxury market, while posting £22.7m pre-tax profit
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Profit jumps to £23.5m at Miller Group
Private housebuilder and property company Miller Group more than doubled its profit in the first half of the year.
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Urban Splash’s £6.3m profit
Urban Splash, the property developer, increased its profit 52% in the 16 months ending 31 March.
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Mowlem’s results dented by £12m Australian loss
Contractor Mowlem’s interim results, announced last week, were overshadowed by a £12m charge for delays on projects in Australia.
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Comment
In defence of Peter
A message to letter-writers and sub-editors: we’re lucky to have Peter Lobban as head of the CITB, and his remuneration package reflects this fact
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David Curry
Booming property prices mean more households are levied for inheritance tax, but proposals to reform the rate of taxation are merely tinkering – they don’t resolve the underlying issues
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Comment
Holyrood: The reckoning
Even after the acres of column inches and the yards of screeching headlines dedicated to the creation of the Scottish parliament building, the Fraser report still manages to add another degree of chill.
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Comment
Down to brass tacks
Everybody knows court cases are horribly expensive, but then so are ‘cheaper’ methods such as adjudication and mediation. So here’s a way to save money