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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 …
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
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?
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 …
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
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.
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
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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.
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Mowlem’s results dented by £12m Australian loss

2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

Contractor Mowlem’s interim results, announced last week, were overshadowed by a £12m charge for delays on projects in Australia.
Comment
In defence of Peter

2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

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
Comment
Hansom

2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

Salty tales of life on the briny as the industry hauls on the bowline and splices its mainbraces for four days of maritime amusement at Little Britain
News
HELP!

2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

Caroline Sanders is a typical house hunter, looking for – and not finding – the home of her dreams in Oxford. So we gave her CABE’s new book The Home Buyer’s Guide to see what difference 110 pages of advice make. Here she reveals all
News
David Curry

2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

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
Features
Miralles’ magnificent mess

2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

We review the Scottish parliament building.
Comment
Holyrood: The reckoning

2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

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.
Comment
Down to brass tacks

2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

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