All Archive Titles articles – Page 525
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Archive TitlesBrand awarenes
Best known for his work with luxury names like Learjet and Bentley, branding expert Steve Edge has created a new look for m&e contractor Alpha. Will Jones meets up for a makeover.
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Government attacked for watering down Part L
Environment experts accuse the ODPM of passing up the opportunity to make a difference by dropping crucial revisions to Parts L and F of the Building Regs.
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Archive TitlesArt of the covenant
Worried about staff setting up on their own and taking your clients with them? Make sure you word any restrictive covenants very carefully, warns Clive Day.
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Olympian ambitions
The announcement that London is to host the 2012 Olympic Games has been greeted with glee by the UK construction industry.
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Archive TitlesVan alive
EMC’s intrepid van tester Richard Kruger takes to the roads in search of nirvana in four wheel form. What did he think of the Ford Transit Connect and the Citroen C2?
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AC Lighting
AC Lighting’s Special Projects division has supplied and installed the fixtures and lighting control system for the John Madejski Garden at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. It worked with m&e contractor Mitie Scotgate, consultant Arup and Patrick Woodroffe Lighting Design to realise the stunning new garden and event ...
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Minds Eye 3D Lighting Design
Minds Eye 3D Lighting Design met the challenge from ORMS Architects to create a focal lighting scheme for the Holmes Place Health Club pool in Shell-Mex House, London. The solution sees EncapSulite’s MT70 IP67-rated waterproof fluorescent fittings in colour sleeves fitted behind a translucent 20 m wall panel.
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Minds Eye 3D Lighting Design
Minds Eye 3D Lighting Design met the challenge from ORMS Architects to create a focal lighting scheme for the Holmes Place Health Club pool in Shell-Mex House, London. The solution sees EncapSulite’s MT70 IP67-rated waterproof fluorescent fittings in colour sleeves fitted behind a translucent 20 m wall panel.
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Archive TitlesThe oil rig repair men
Since Hurricane Katrina devastated the US' Gulf Coast, experts in cost, claims and project management have been playing a vital role in the region's recovery process. They have been drafted in from firms such as Bechtel, Rider Hunt Levett & Bailey, Hanscomb Faith & Gould, Hill International, Gleeds and UK ...
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Your network rights explained
Colin Kingshott asked if the data and licence information from the electronic version of the JCT contract could be stored on a central server, (Network freedom rights, QS News, 30 September)...
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Credit where it’s due
The knee-jerk reaction to the victory of the Scottish Parliament at last weekend’s Stirling Prize would be to decry the judges for picking a building that was so woefully managed and hence so famously over time and over budget.
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Not so hidden costs
The government highlighted the need for more efficiency, but Kevin Taplin is left wondering who pays in procurement
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Archive TitlesGlobal disputes in construction still ‘sky high’ claims Knowles
Chairman declares contentious work still rife and announces he will step down in a year
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Savills broadens out into PM with new recruit
Savills is for the first time to tout for project management business outside the existing book of clients that use its agents to clinch property deals.
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If clients paid bid costs...
An industry expert has called for a radical overhaul of public sector procurement.
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Archive TitlesUS builders cut bid times
Contractors in the US have slashed the length of time they will fix bids for by three quarters
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Too much time in Ballykissange
From Michael Byng's CV (Byng’s blueprint, QS News, 7 October) it would appear that he has spent most of his career outside mainstream UK construction.
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Archive TitlesLondon Eye architects head to Liverpool
A planned £15m new complex in Liverpool designed by London Eye architects Marks Barfield has received planning permission.
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Apologies to Marlene Dietrich
In response to your letters (Why are QSs in such short supply? QS News, 7 October), I have written a few verses on the theme of missing QSs, called 'Where have all the QSs gone?' (with apologies to Pete Seeger, songwriter and Marlene Dietrich, performer, 1961)