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    Products - Doors and Windows

    2003-10-24T00:00:00Z

    A combination of the best in doors, windows and flooring products, including framing an art deco gem and giving swing doors the silent treatment

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    Products - Flooring

    2003-10-24T00:00:00Z

    High-pressure laminateAlloc Commercial says its flooring now has a thicker and stronger high pressure laminate surface and an integral Silent System sound absorbent underlay. Alloc says the surface resists damp, diluted chemicals and cigarette burns and has been designed to endure heavier impacts. Alloc has also launched the new StoneStructure ...

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    Appointments

    2003-10-22T12:31:00Z

    Movers and shakers

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    Ricky

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Best known as the cantankerous dad in The Royle Family, Ricky Tomlinson won another kind of fame 30 years ago when he was jailed after the 1972 construction strike. He spoke to us about plastering, union militancy and his new autobiography

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    Now we are three

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    The pre-action protocol is three years old. So do we crack open the bubbly – or keep quiet and hope nobody will mention it? A new survey might help us decide

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    Tube needs £500m more power to run PPP deal

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    London Underground push for revamped 30-year contract amid fears of future electricity shortages.

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    Who's for dinner?

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Building's finance pages are suddenly dominated by talk of takeovers. Housebuilders, consultants and contractors all feel the need to expand their bottom line by eating up their rivals. We look at how what is behind this unprecedented period of consolidation

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    Repeat after me: 'yes, I can run your project'

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Take a look at these people … Do you recognise the one who'll best be able to manage your scheme? We investigate

  • Comment

    The peacemakers

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Dispute resolution boards are supposed to head off problems before they escalate into armed conflict. Question is, how do they do the heading off?

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    CTRL project team to design St Pancras Thameslink fit-out

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Appointment of Channel Tunnel Rail Link consortium clears up confusion over who will pay for station work.

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    Architect plans schoolhouses for teachers

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Architect Hunter & Partners is implementing a groundbreaking plan to provide accommodation for teachers priced out of the South-east's housing market

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    Bovis wins gold at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Italy

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Italian arm is awarded 29-month contract in joint bid with Turin engineering and construction firm.

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    Ballast 'walks a tightrope' as subcontractors down tools

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Nervous staff fear for this month's salary as Dutch parent announces that it is cutting off support for UK business.

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    Berkeley sues engineer for £1m over collapsing site

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    High Court writ accuses Leslie Wilks of failing to inform housebuilder that Hampshire site was unstable.

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    Jarvis says farewell to rail maintenance sector

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Support services group Jarvis last week announced that it was to pull out of rail maintenance work.

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    NFB launches service to find perfect partners

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    A scheme to provide clients and prime contractors with a list of suitable firms for partnering has been launched by the National Federation of Builders.

  • Features

    Balancing act

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    In the first of a three-part series on achieving the right work–life balance, Andrew Garbutt of Berkshire Consultancy asks: what do you want to get out of life?

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    Project review

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Designing and building a £5.5m nanoscience research centre for Cambridge University was an ideal opportunity to create a building that was as futuristic as the technology it contained. Here's how Building Design Partnership and Gardiner & Theobald tackled it.

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    City looks forward to bright future for Mears

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Analysts predict strong performance for building maintenance firm, with pre-tax profit at £6.3m by 2005.

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    Brokers notes: When Jarvis bowed out

    2003-10-17T00:00:00Z

    After three days supping a little too much of the red stuff in the granite surroundings of the Square Mile, it was a relief to have a dry lunch last Thursday with my old chum Colin Busby, the Kier chairman.