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Archive TitlesHeery wins £25m Cutty Sark job
12:00PM Balfour Beatty management arm secures role on restoring historic ship in Greenwich
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Charlie Benson to head Whitbybird international division
Also: Balfour Beatty makes four appointments in North-east and Mark Thomas becomes head of sport at White Young Green
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Arup aims for global clean water through competition
11:40 AM Engineering consultancy and WaterAid partner for ‘drawing water challenge’ competition
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Archive TitlesTribal PM and QS for fashion academy
10:30 AM Tribal and Arcadia complete new Fashion Retail Academy in London
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Archive TitlesQ&A with COMIT's chairman
The DTI stopped funding the IT research firm last year, but chairman Neil Pawsey explains to Matthew Parsons how COMIT is still going strong and reveals the latest hi-tech gadgetry set to hit construction
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Archive TitlesTrench makes 500,000 selling firm to WYG
David Trench has pocketed around £500,000 from the sale of his firm Trench Farrow last month to White Young Green. Trench owned 23% of the project management company, which is understood to have been up for sale for two to three years. Trench, who was chairman of Trench Farrow, is ...
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QS News Awards 2006
In the first preview of nominees for the second QS News Awards, we highlight the companies vying to be the best all-round firm, the best firm to work for and the best QS team working within a contracting or client organisation
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Guarding Village booked to return at IFSEC in 2007
Following its successful launch at the May 2006 event, the Security Guarding Village returns to IFSEC when the hugely popular and well-attended exhibition runs at Birmingham’s NEC from 21-24 May next year.
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Archive TitlesProtégé 2007
David Bucknall has had enough of defeatist talk about a lack of new talent out there. So much so he’s teamed up with us to search for great potential construction consultants. This week we launch the Protégé 2007 competition - click here to enter the official site. The prize? A ...
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Archive Titles2012 ...be involved
Although the 2012 London Olympics are still six years away, it’s not too early for security companies in the guarding and systems arenas to start thinking about becoming involved. Alan Hyder points them in the right direction
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Archive TitlesLife begins again at 40
With the British Security Industry Association rapidly approaching its 40th Birthday, and the recent launch of a new corporate identity under its belt, now is perhaps an opportune moment to take stock of where the organisation might be heading in the years to come. Brian Sims talks to chief ...
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Archive TitlesRetailers “abandoned” by Government and police
Retailers feel that they are being isolated in their constant fight AGAINST criminals as law enforcers are seemingly abandoning stores to the crooks. That is a key message contained in the British Retail Consortium’s (BRC) Retail Crime Survey 2005-2006 (see ‘Damage limitation’, pp30-31).
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Archive TitlesAccess control: does it work?
SMT has teamed up with Perpetuity Research and Consultancy International (PRCI) to disseminate the findings of PRCI’s very latest research projects. In the coming months we’ll be reviewing property marking, identity theft, ATM security, the corporate security network and redeployable cameras (among other topics). To begin the series, Katy Owen ...
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Archive TitlesAccess in the Emerald Isle... courtesy of Salto
The luxurious Five-Star Lyrath Estate Hotel IN the medieval city of Kilkenny down in the South East of Ireland is now benefiting thanks to a state-of-the-art wireless access control system from Salto Systems.
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Archive TitlesAn accident waiting to happen
Proof that asbestos and JCT Minor Works don’t mix. Peter Phillippo reports on what happened when one Mrs Teasdale became caught in the crossfire between a local council and contractors
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Archive TitlesThe final account
Fond farewells, odd career choices, virtual fundraising, name calling and news from Nashville, Tennessee
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Archive TitlesAim high with wi-fi
Construction manager Mace brought in Building Zones to set up a wireless network on one of the most prestigious projects in the City of London (click here for slideshow). It’s the first project of its kind in the UK, claims Building Zones, and will make life easier for visiting project ...
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Archive TitlesFlexibility: the key to ID cards for all
Given that the Government is aiming to introduce national ID cards within the next two years, it’s an opportune moment for Cath Rawcliffe to examine the factors which the Home Office will have to take into consideration if a secure and effective scheme is to be realised.
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Archive TitlesGleeds axes US alliance strategy and opens new office in Carolina
Tie-ups ‘more baggage than opportunity’ says US boss after poaching Faithful+Gould staff
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Why ‘I’ always comes before ‘T’
Paul Wilkinson is looking forward to the day when we cease worrying about telecoms, hardware and software, when the IT emphasis is on information not technology