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FeaturesRoofs: Powersharing
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 …
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FeaturesPlasterboard: Hush hush
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?
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Demanding satisfaction
Brighton. Buxton. Broadway. Bradford. Britain’s most lively townscapes gained their individual character because development was in the hands of local specialists. Today most of the country’s output comes from volume housebuilders, and they work wherever there is a local market.
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FeaturesGyvlon: Crackdown
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 …
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FeaturesConcrete: Freeflow
The architect for this museum in Lincoln wanted a concrete that would be quick and easy to pour, yet have a finish sensitive enough to record the texture of a leaf. Here’s how he found it
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FeaturesCement: Mixmasters
Those fighting construction’s never ending war against cock-ups on site have just been handed a powerful new weapon: cements that have been precisely blended to do the job that they’re supposed to
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FeaturesBernard Kasriel: Realpolitic
Bernard Kasriel, chief executive of Lafarge, talks about environment-friendly technology, negotiating with suspicious governments and the delicate business of digging enormous great holes