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FeaturesSpotlight on enabling works
Those contractors involved in getting a site ready face an extremely complex market 鈥�
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APC Trainer: Killer moves: (A015: Conflict avoidance, dispute resolution)
Every week 好色先生TV.co.uk features a handy guide to answering APC interview questions for trainee surveyors. For more, visit the website, but in the meantime here鈥檚 one of our experts, Alastair Bloore, with some high-flying ideas about dispute resolution. Steady on there, tiger 鈥�
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The tracker: Against all odds
You would think contractors would be feeling seasick given the current financial turmoil 鈥� but you would think wrong: things are still surprisingly upbeat, says Experian Business Strategies
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FeaturesThe evolving QS
With flotation looking distinctly iffy 鈥� as Turner & Townsend realised last week 鈥� cost consultants are looking for other ways to expand and survive.
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FeaturesSolar shed roofing: Hello, sunshine
Large industrial sheds are difficult and expensive to heat but a new system that turns the building into a huge solar collector can warm the inside space, cut carbon emissions and meet the demand for renewables. Stephen Kennett reports
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FeaturesMuck and brass
Over the next 10 years, up to 40 new waste treatment centres will be needed in the UK and each will be worth around 拢350m, so do the maths on that. Olivia Hemmings reports on why there鈥檚 never been a better time to talk rubbish
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FeaturesI regard it as a badge of honour when people say I鈥檓 over the top about nuclear power
INTERVIEW: Margaret Thatcher鈥檚 former press secretary, Sir Bernard Ingham, has spent much of the past 10 years lambasting the 鈥榤ad mullahs鈥� of the anti-nuclear lobby and subjecting their arguments to an unrelenting barrage of ridicule. And don鈥檛 think the government鈥檚 decision to build a lot of nuclear stations is going ...
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FeaturesWood-grained PVCu facias
Swish 好色先生TV Products has launched a range of M-Boss roofline products.
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FeaturesPlane sailing
Fitting a roof shaped like a gigantic aeroplane wing in an elevated and exposed location near the Atlantic coast might seem foolhardy, but this was exactly what the team building the new Killanin Stand at Galway racecourse in Ireland decided to do.
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FeaturesGreen roofing failures: Root causes
Green roofs offer many attractions. For a start you get a host of environmental benefits and an extra plot of grass, on which you can have plants or even trees. Also, by putting a garden on your roof, the weatherproofing layer lasts two to three times longer than one exposed ...
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FeaturesAluminium roof
More than 10,000m2 of aluminium composite panels from Reynobond Architecture were used to clad and roof the Cit茅 de la Voile Eric Tabarly in l鈥橭rient, France.
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Roof lights
Glidevale has introduced the Sunscoop, a discreet way to increase natural daylight in dark rooms and passages.
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Ventilation tiles
The new Redland ThruVent tile has been developed for high-level roofspace ventilation, mechanical extraction and soil ventilation.
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Semi-gloss finishes
Ward Insulated Panels has launched an eco-friendly, natural colour coated system for its range of wall and roofing panels.
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Curved silver roof
A curved silver roof from Ash & Lacy has been used to top a new sports hall at St. Bede鈥檚 school in Cambridge.
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FeaturesAir-tight container
Protan UK was established in June 1996 as a subsidiary of Protan AS, Norway.
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FeaturesMeet the new ministers: Supernanny and Shriti the shriek
So Fortuna鈥檚 ever-whirling wheel has brought two new politicians to look after our industry. At first sight they seem like standard issue New Labour middle managers. Probe a little deeper into their biographies, though, and they鈥檙e about as similar as Mary Poppins and Lady Macbeth.
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FeaturesGolden wonder
It鈥檚 the gold roof on Rafael Vi帽oly鈥檚 Colchester visual arts centre that will wow the visitors 鈥� but the real marvel was getting it up without touching the topsoil.