All Archive Titles articles – Page 164
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The month...in words
‘It’s a risk and if you’re playing the game, you have to know you can lose it and accept the risk.’ Hills Electrical & Mechanical director David Hill is philosophical about the sale of the family firm.
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The month....in numbers
7 The percentage fall in Skanska’s profits, from £35.5m to £32.9m, despite turnover rising by 44%. Skanska UK chief executive David Fison blamed three PFI projects.
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Midas waste move rewarded
Midas is saving £200,000 a year on a turnover of £200m by recycling 70% of its waste.
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Archive TitlesPink ladies
The girls tried to put a brave face on things despite Angela’s insistence they keep their hard hats on until after the balloons had been released.
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Hole story
Ocon construction manager Paul Hudson surveys a hole in the roof of an industrial-age crucible furnace discovered during groundworks for a new student accommodation block in Sheffield.
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Web tackles health issues
Lost on occupational health? Then the HSE’s new internet tool is for you. Stephen Cousins reports
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Whatever happened to the QS?
It’s the new age of responsibility. Nobody wants to be responsible for anything anymore just in case they get something wrong.
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Global trends identified
By 2030, half of the world’s new construction will be in China. And Chinese construction companies have already started working in Africa, the Gulf region, South-east Asia and Russia.
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Archive TitlesJungle formula
The floor of St Pancras station required something special: so that’ll be sustainable Brazilian hardwood manufactured to tenth of a millimetre precision then. Kristina Smith reports
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Tips of the trade - flooring
Steven Maltby, technical services manager for Junckers, gives us the inside story on specifying sustainable hardwood floors
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Archive TitlesGround engineering round up
We mix the old and the new in this month’s groundworks review, looking at a listed church, a mixed use development in Birmingham, wind turbines and ancient stone arch culverts
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Archive TitlesEco home sweet home
It’s sustainable, it’s affordable and it shuns traditional eco bling. Stephen Cousins visits the first of six experimental homes at Nottingham University
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Sales drop
Sales of building materials fell by 4.4% in the last three months of 2007, compared with the same period in 2006, and by 10.6% compared with the preceeding three months, July to September 2007, according to the Builders Merchants Federation.
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Legacy obsession threatens to make olympic pool a damp squib
Oh dear! What on earth has happened to Zaha Hadid’s Olympic Acquatic centre?
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Cost-cutting contractors, streamline supplier lists
Rationalisation was the name of the game last month as big contractors revealed plans to slash the number of suppliers on their lists.
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Archive TitlesMeet construction’s Mr Nice
Ocon Construction MD Clive Williamson tells CM why an ethical approach to suppliers works better than the ‘bully boy’ tactics of housebuilders.
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Archive TitlesNothing changes, except for ministers
It’s good to be back off holiday – there are only so many days you can spend relaxing and chilling out.
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CCS goes small
After 11 years and 26,00 sites, the Considerate Constructors Scheme is turning its attention to smaller sites.