All Archive Titles articles – Page 457
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ACS Terms and Conditions finally rubber-stamped by Home Office
After much delay, Home Office minister Paul Goggins has unveiled the fine detail underpinning the Approved Contractor Scheme for the private security industry
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All aboard the new Solaris dome
Integrated security specialist Bewater has launched an upgraded version of its highly successful Solaris dome camera. The most significant new feature is the ‘Back-Up/Restore' function, which allows the end user to back-up configuration settings from the camera head and store them within the external termination unit.
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Compliance with Regulation 8
SIR - Harking back to last year's feature on the Information and Consultation Regulations (‘It's good to talk', SMT, May 2005, pp36-38), I suspect your readers might take an interest in the first reported case from the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) - Stewart versus Moray Council - focusing on what ...
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GMB national organiser calls for licensing deadline to be moved back to late June 2006
Gary Smith - the GMB's national organiser for the security industry - has called on the Government to extend the licensing deadline for security officers from 20 March to 30 June (although the GMB is not advocating any extension for directors and managers of guarding companies, and suggests that any ...
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Archive TitlesGovernment review of CICS could cost security providers £1 million
The Government has produced a draft paper - ‘Rebuilding Lives: Supporting the Victims of Crime' - aimed at reviewing the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme (CICS). As John Ludley discovers, there would be potentially serious implications for the industry at large if the responsibility for compensation were switched from the CICS ...
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Elvin's latest blog comes with a health warning...
No Smoking Day and Constructing Excellence plus how 'The Apprentice' gets Box's adrenaline going
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Archive TitlesAnd the winner is
Who says students are unable to bring a sound practical understanding to the profession? One of them has won out in our legal quiz run by QS and dispute experts at Blake Newport. Co-founder David Blake presents the definitive view on an informal approach to adjudication
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Archive TitlesYorkon's near-perfect performance
Yorkon, the off-site construction specialist, claims it has delivered 96% of buildings on time over the past five years.
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London still subdued
Office construction in central London remained subdued last year according to property agent giant King Sturge
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School of innovation
Danusia Osiowy reports on a scheme for a special needs school in East Sussex that has transformed the learning environment for its pupils
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Archive TitlesMIPIM guide
It's time to forget that final account you were working on and grab your bucket and spade. As the construction industry downs tools and heads to Cannes for MIPIM, QS News brings you an essential guide to surviving the legendary event. We've drawn up a list of Dos and Don'ts ...
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Grudge match
A recent case suggests the construction industry still has an appetite to litigate at any cost. Peter Phillippo wonders why common sense and negotiation cannot be used instead
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EC Harris not the first
I was surprised to read the article (QS News, page 5, 24 February) claiming EC Harris could become the "first QS and project management group... to take a major stake in a PPP-style project" when in fact they are 10 years behind the initiative taken by McBains.So successful was the ...
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Inventing the cost plan
The introduction to your history feature (Brand Names, QS News, 24 February) wonders who invented the cost plan.
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Archive TitlesSwiss cladding firm's collapse could leave two major London projects in turmoil
Schmidlin's UK arm continues to trade; six bidders eye firm's fabrication plant
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Elvin Box's blog
The Guardian recently laid into the profession, blaming it for massive overspends and delays on projects such as Wembley and the Channel Tunnel. QS News' regular blogger Elvin Box dares to suggest it may have a point. Visit www.qsnews.co.uk to comment on his blog
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Software developed to streamline and cut costs of PPP/PFI bidding
New system Bid-Builder uses data from over 60 PFI/PPP jobs to work out life cycle costs
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Archive TitlesBarber turns Barking into the Mediterranean
Construction work is due to finish this month on a striking housing scheme in Barking designed by well-known architect Peter Barber.