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Safety flooring
Safetred Dimension Wood PU is the latest development in safety flooring from Tarkett.
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Anti-slip decking
JB Antislip Plus decking now has coloured, resin-based aggregate inserts that are injected into the grooves of the deckboard to provide better grip and safety.
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FeaturesCMS Vibration Solutions: Quiet, please
CMS Vibration Solutions, part of the 拢15m-turnover CMS Group, was set up just two years ago and specialises in anti-vibration and structural isolation for all types of developments. With 16 employees across its offices in Warrington and Colchester, the company has been involved in projects ranging from the nanoscience laboratory ...
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FeaturesBison: Set to succeed
Established in 1919, Bison specialises in the design and manufacture of structural precast concrete products. Precast flooring accounts for about 80% of its products and includes hollow, core, solid and composite floors. The company has a turnover of about 拢100m a year and has four factories across the UK, including ...
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好色先生TV Intelligence Q3 2007: Hidden cracks
New work pushed the industry forward last year, but the modest growth figures masked significant variation across the sectors, says Experian Business Strategies
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The tracker: Getting the jitters
The industry is still expanding but the uncertainty in the financial markets is starting to make itself felt in the civil engineering sector. Experian Business Strategies reports
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FeaturesThe secret life of buildings
We hear an awful lot about architects鈥� splendid low-energy designs, but information about how they actually work when built is rarer than hens鈥� teeth. So we should all be grateful to Simons, which not only built itself a green office, but collected a year鈥檚 data on how it functioned. ...
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Aylesbury Vale eco-town could fund Oxford rail link
Planned Buckinghamshire development could contribute 拢15m to 拢150m East-West railway
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FeaturesThe path to power
好色先生TV analysis: The government has willed the creation of the first nuclear reactors since 1995, but to get them it needs to erect a new planning system, overcome opposition from a host of enemies 鈥� some within the construction industry 鈥� and work out a way to store toxic waste ...
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FeaturesMeet the new nanny
Lance Taylor is chief executive of Rider Levett Bucknall, a global QS that, according to him, resembles a 鈥�65-year-old toddler鈥�. Here the rugby-playing hard man tells Karolin Schaps how he plans to nurture it through its teething problems.
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Features鈥榃hat鈥檚 missing is an understanding of what works and what doesn鈥檛鈥�
Construction accounts for about 10% of GDP, so why is a measly 拢5m being invested in its R&D? Stephen Kennett looks at the steady evaporation of funding 鈥� particularly for the publication of practical guidance 鈥� but wonders if we only have ourselves to blame
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FeaturesBetter by degrees
Entering construction as a graduate will stand you in better stead than jumping right in and learning on the job. Even the lack of on-site experience can work to your advantage, says graduate QS Richard Devoy
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FeaturesSpecialist cost update: Structures
The credit crunch has led to the cancellation or postponement of some schemes, but the year ahead is still looking buoyant across the sector. Gardiner & Theobald report
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FeaturesCountry focus: Spain
Spain has enjoyed a booming economy over the past 10 years, with annual growth well above the EU average. But is the fiesta about to end? Marcos Uttley del Corral of EC Harris reports
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FeaturesStudio Royale
James Bond鈥檚 favourite car maker gets an appropriately elegant design workship
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FeaturesTop 50 contractor websites: Restricted access
好色先生TV.co.uk鈥檚 survey of the top 50 contractors revealed that many of the biggest names in the industry are failing to make their websites accessible to all users
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FeaturesSustainability: Heat pumps
Can the technology that powers the humble fridge contribute to reducing carbon emissions in a cost-effective way? Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon looks at what heat pumps can, and cannot, offer a future development
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Liverpool lost 40% of its jobs between 1972 and 1991 and so, unsurprisingly, its population has been in long-term decline. It still is.
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FeaturesLiverpool One on-site: Welcome to paradise
How do you co-ordinate a 拢1bn budget, 40 buildings, 22 architects and 90 consultants to deliver the most ambitious regeneration scheme Liverpool has ever seen? Thomas Lane went to ask the man who has to do it
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Prefabricated toilet cubicles
Cubicle Centre has developed the Malvern range for washroom refurbishments.