Featured in the current issue of Natural Stone Specialist…

• Ask the Expert : Resin with stone
  In this regular column, Consultant Barry Hunt answers reader enquiries. If you have a question, email it to: nss@qmj.co.uk marked for Barry’s attention.

  Q: More resins seem to be used...

• Project management : Fixed price contracts
  Robert Merry is an independent Stone Consultant and Project Manger who also runs training courses on project management. He continues this series of his thoughts on successful estimating and project...

• Marketing : Introduction
  Alan Gayle is a sales and marketing consultant specialising in the construction industry. In this column he offers advice on how to make an impact in the market you want to reach. He begins with this...

• The Mystery Surfer : The road to Hell…
  

  The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, so they say. I wouldn’t say Cerrig’s website is Hell – in fact, those parts of it that have been completed are very good –...

• Stone sources : Asia
  Prime Minister David Cameron and an entourage of 60 cabinet ministers, leaders of some of Britain’s largest companies and Olympic gold medalists were in India this month trying to establish a...

• Report : Engineered quartz
  Although the domestic interiors market has been badly hit by the economic downturn, with the failure of high street showrooms dragging some of their suppliers down with them, including masonry...

• Readers projects : Welsh Assembly building, Llandudno
  In Welsh, Cerrig means stone. It is also the name of the Welsh company who won the contract to put the Welsh slate cladding on to the new Welsh Assembly Government building in north Wales at...

• Companies : Team Force Restoration Ltd
  Brendan Teasdale is passionate about the built heritage. When he is not repairing buildings he is either learning more about the skills needed to carry out his work or teaching other people the...

• Report : Training
  As the industry breaths a sigh of relief that NVQs have survived the new Qualifications & Credit Framework that had threatened to end them, training providers introduce new courses to keep...