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Taipei’s World Trade Centre Nears Completion

It’s not due to open until next year but already 90 floors of the 101 floor “Taipei 101” skyscraper are built. When complete it will add 200,000 sqm of office space to the Taiwanese capital and the g...

27 May 2003

Bovis Homes Wins Greeenleaf Award

The greenleaf housing awards are organised by the New Homes Marketing Board in partnership with the Daily Mail and the main sponsor, Hanson. The prestigious Hanson Award – for the finest greenleaf example of the...

27 May 2003

£400m Loan for the Completion of Chunnel Track

A loan by the European Union of £400 million will help complete the connection of high speed track between London, Brussels and Paris - striking another 15 minutes of time from the trip to both cities. An agreement be...

27 May 2003

Turning Papermill Waste into Construction Products

A new research programme of aims to develop innovative construction products using waste from papermills. Work will concentrate on three principal groups of product: renders, blocks and clays; wood based joinery and indu...

26 May 2003

Clement Windows Group Launches New Part L Steel Window

Initial concerns over the tightening of Part L of the building regulations (Heat loss through buildings) have been alleviated by the recent launch of what is possibly the world’s first Part L compliant steel window...

26 May 2003

Bechtel Look for UK Assistance to Rebuild Iraq

On April 17, Bechtel was awarded the contract by USAID for the emergency repair and rehabilitation of the Iraqi infrastructure. Initial funding is for $34.6 million, but could extend to $680 million over 18 months. Th...

23 May 2003

Lafarge in Bangladesh Cement Joint Venture

World leader in building materials, Lafarge have announced the formation of a joint venture with Cementos Mohlins to build a cement plant in Chhatak, in Bangladesh. Lafarge and Cementos Mohlins will own 60% of the joi...

23 May 2003

Westbury Persist with Loss Making Prefabricated Home Business

Despite having posted its second straight year of losses, Westbury has decided to persist with its prefabricated homes business. The business called Space4 registered an operating loss of £3.5 million in the fin...

23 May 2003

Aggregate from Recycled Building Materials to be Used for Pipe Bedding

Water companies across the UK are to commence trials using recycled aggregate materials for bedding clay pipes. The aggregate material is made from crushed construction waste to a size of less then 20mm. This size has...

23 May 2003

Plans for Under Road Ducts for Cabling and Utilities

The UK Department of Transport is drafting a new streetworks bill that could force contractors to lay cable and utilities ducts under busy streets. The move is to reduce the congestion brought about by the digging up of ...

23 May 2003

New Machine to Test Pavement Noise

Researchers at Purdue University have developed a 12 foot diameter, 38,000 pound machine that allows them to test various concrete compositions and tyre types in the search for quieter pavements. The device consists o...

23 May 2003

New Programme to Study Performance of Construction Materials

A proposed three year programme being developed by the Department of Trade and Industry and the National Physical Laboratory will focus on the performance of materials in service. With a start date of 1 April 2004, the M...

15 May 2003

BHP Increase Colorbond Steel Palette

BHP Steel have added another 6 colours to their range of Colorbond® Steel. The latest range of Colorbond products also benefit from advances in super polyester pre-painted coating technology. The new colours cover...

14 May 2003

Irish Housing Hits an All Time High

In delivering the Department of the Environment and Local Government’s 2002 Annual Housing Statistics Bulletin, Minster for Housing, Mr. Noel Ahern announced that the number of new houses built had reached an all t...

13 May 2003

Construction Materials Recycling Facility for UK

Work is due to start in May on the development of a new £1.9 million construction, demolition and excavation waste recycling facility in Rotherham, UK, thanks to a £560,000 grant from WRAP (the Waste and Reso...

13 May 2003