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  • Stefanou
    News

    Construction leaders call for a cull of the institutions

    2004-09-17T10:07:00Z

    Industry opinion-formers urge professional bodies to merge – or face loss of royal charter and charitable status.

  • Features

    Specifier Products

    2004-09-17T12:30:00Z

    The latest ideas for adding the final flourish to a building, from sun-shading aluminium louvres to spectacular coloured glass interlayers. Plus, the connectors, cramps and beams that hold it all together

  • Features

    The rules

    2004-09-17T12:24:00Z

    There are only two months left to have your say over changes to the energy regulations covering non-dwellings. Here’s a recap of the 10 key proposals that would affect all you cladding specifiers …

  • Features

    Checklist

    2004-09-17T12:18:00Z

    Specifying cladding? There’s a lot to remember – safety regulations, fixings, finishes … at least eight things, in fact. Barbour Index and Scott Brownrigg tell you what they are

  • Technal showcases its own talents
    Features

    Seven steps to curtain walling heaven

    2004-09-17T11:13:00Z

    Malcolm Dobson, technical director of Technal, gives his tips on what to look out for on site to ensure the perfect curtain walling installation

  • Comment

    Demanding satisfaction

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Brighton. Buxton. Broadway. Bradford. Britain’s most lively townscapes gained their individual character because development was in the hands of local specialists. Today most of the country’s output comes from volume housebuilders, and they work wherever there is a local market.

  • The Combined Universities of Cornwall was a testing ground for Lafarge's
    Features

    Cement: Mixmasters

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Those fighting construction’s never ending war against cock-ups on site have just been handed a powerful new weapon: cements that have been precisely blended to do the job that they’re supposed to

  • Concrete: Freeflow
    Features

    Concrete: Freeflow

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    The architect for this museum in Lincoln wanted a concrete that would be quick and easy to pour, yet have a finish sensitive enough to record the texture of a leaf. Here’s how he found it

  • Gyvlon: Crackdown
    Features

    Gyvlon: Crackdown

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    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 …

  • Bernard Kasriel
    Features

    Bernard Kasriel: Realpolitic

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Bernard Kasriel, chief executive of Lafarge, talks about environment-friendly technology, negotiating with suspicious governments and the delicate business of digging enormous great holes

  • Echeck
    Features

    Plasterboard: Hush hush

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    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?

  • Operatives install PV 800 photovoltaic panels. Excess electricity can be sold to the National Grid
    Features

    Roofs: Powersharing

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    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 …

  • Gary Walker
    Features

    Walker’s big score

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    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 …

  • Features

    Local lowdown: Central Scotland

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Robert Smith of Hays Montrose says that, in central Scotland, PFIs are leading the way

  • Features

    Appointments

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Movers and shakers this week

  • Yurtsever (pictured) and Jones: In charge of Mace's People consultancy
    News

    Mace launches in-house recruitment consultant

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Business aims to fill 600 internal vacancies over next year while providing recruitment service to rivals

  • News

    Sharewatch: Amec’s chasing Amey

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    So it looks like Amec is hell-bent on abandoning the construction sector.

  • Rising steadily: Galliford Try's share price
    News

    Galliford Try aims to double house sales in three years

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Company plans to sell 1250 homes and abandon the luxury market, while posting £22.7m pre-tax profit

  • News

    Profit jumps to £23.5m at Miller Group

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Private housebuilder and property company Miller Group more than doubled its profit in the first half of the year.

  • News

    Urban Splash’s £6.3m profit

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Urban Splash, the property developer, increased its profit 52% in the 16 months ending 31 March.