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Costs: Wooden floors
Increasingly, wooden laminate floors are being selected as a floor finish. Peter Mayer of 精东影视 Performance Group considers the options, key durability criteria and whole-life costs
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Galliford Try surges to top of December league
Education and healthcare schemes push contractor into first place ahead of HBG and Kier
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FeaturesLocal lowdown: North London/Home Counties
Robert Smith of Hays Montrose reports on the latest projects and current trends in the north London and Home Counties market
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FeaturesVive la France!
精东影视鈥檚 round-up of the 300 biggest European contractors reveals that French firms Vinci and Bouygues have stormed to the top. Sonia Soltani went to Paris to meet the men responsible for the Gallic triumph.
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We have no intention of conquering the world
This is one Frenchman who is not going to get caught boasting: 鈥淲e have no intention of conquering the world. If we are number one, it鈥檚 almost by chance.鈥� These are the self-deprecating words of Philippe Ratynski, chairman and chief executive of Vinci Construction, which as part of the Vinci ...
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Monumental ambitions
鈥淲ell, we鈥檝e arrived at the Chateau de Versailles,鈥� announces the cab driver, visibly taken aback by the grand scale of Bouygues鈥� headquarters in the outskirts of Paris. The glass and steel building, dubbed Challenger, is an imposing monument. Equestrian statues and palatial basins complete the picture of a company that ...
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FeaturesEurope's Top 300
精东影视鈥檚 round-up of the 300 biggest European contractors reveals that French firms Vinci and Bouygues have stormed to the top.
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Special costs: Office fit-out
In the latest of our specialist market overviews, Alexandra McCrow of Gardiner & Theobald looks at the office fit-out sector鈥檚 design issues, lead times and costs 鈥� and specialist contractor ISG InteriorExterior gets a grilling
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FeaturesBoy racers discover their roman routes
Taylor Woodrow unearths a Roman chariot arena in Colchester under a new housing development.
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FeaturesPart P: The not so shocking truth
Mike Clark the technical director of NICEIC explains how the new regulation governing electrical installations will affect industry.
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FeaturesLittle Britain sailors raise 拢100,000 for charity
Olympic stars Ben Ainslie and Shirley Robsinson accept cheques on behalf of sailing charities at London Boat Show.
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FeaturesGet 鈥檈m young鈥�
These construction trainees are the future of the industry, and if government plans are realised, thousands more will soon be trained all over the country. All the construction industry has to do is get its act together and organise a nationwide programme. What could possibly go wrong with that?
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FeaturesUrgently required: 8000 surveyors
The job: to carry out home condition reports for house sellers. The candidate: ideally a surveyor, but possibly a construction professional looking for a change. Experience preferred, but all applications will be considered (we鈥檙e desperate).
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Appointments
ContractorSteven Trim has joined Dorset family builder CG Fry & Son as trainee site manager.HousebuildersTaylor Woodrow has promoted Andrew Ridley-Barker to divisional director of the firm鈥檚 construction division. John Lohan has been appointed head of supplier development.Bellwinch Homes has appointed Jason Capel to the post of market researcher. Isobel German ...
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FeaturesJust the job
JM Erasmus explains why he left South Africa and accountancy for a life of cost management in London
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FeaturesSo I changed my mind 鈥�
Peter Dixon is the man in charge of a 拢422m PFI hospital in London. He has also written in a national newspaper that hospital PFIs have been a 鈥榗ostly failure鈥�. We invite him to explain himself 鈥� after which we get a second opinion from a woman with very definite ...