All Archive Titles articles – Page 546
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Talkin’ about a revolution
“What’s under the JCT’s bonnet?” asked one of our legal columnists last week in a review of one of the new contracts, which is part of the major overhaul of the body’s suite of contracts that is taking place this year.
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Archive TitlesThe QS Awards at Vinopolis to celebrate 2005’s vintage
The excellence and innovation shown by British QSs, often overlooked in the construction industry, will be on display later this year – and your firm still has a chance to see its achievements celebrated at the QS News-organised event.
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Archive TitlesVisions of tomorrow
What will the security company of tomorrow look like? Multi-disciplined in structure, combining physical, electronic, manned and consultancy services as a bundled package. Holistic integrated services will provide the best solution as opposed to specific service offerings, although it should be possible for single, disciplined security companies to succeed if ...
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A worrying site
If we don’t set more store by off-site manufacturing we will never achieve the efficiency we so desperately need, says Martin Long. In association with Daikin.
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Archive TitlesPrescription for success
A new hospital project proves that, when it comes to Procure21, design by committee works. Stephen Kennett discovers how collaborative working produced effective new solutions
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Archive TitlesPneumatic thrill
Altnagelvin is only the second UK hospital to use a pneumatic waste system. Andy Pearson reveals why other new healthcare schemes are sure to follow
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Archive TitlesThe people's president
He’s not a main contractor or a client but he may just prove to be the people’s president. Olufunmi Majekodunmi meets Allan McMullen, new president of the CIOB, to discuss his aims, fears and why he would love to sort out apprenticeships.
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Praise for our people
SIR – I was most interested to READ Efraim Halevy’s Opinion piece in last month’s edition (‘Taking the fight to the terrorists’, SMT, August 2005, pp13-14). There are many lessons to be learned from the dreadful events that occurred in London on Thursday 7 July, and indeed the subsequent failed ...
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Safety is not an option
It is good to see the new CDM proposals portrayed in a positive light (Souped-up safety, CM, June). The early appointment of the proposed project co-ordinator, replacing the planning supervisor role, vindicates my own research for the HSE last year. At the time I was slated for placing the appointment ...
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Archive TitlesIt only takes one
Campaigners maintain construction is rotten to the core, but can a new integrity pact clean it up? Olufunmi Majekodunmi reports on an industry that seems reluctant to fiddle too much with the status quo
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Archive TitlesNational triumph
The National Gallery’s grand new entrance could never have happened without the services that were artfully installed behind the scenes, says Andy Pearson
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Archive TitlesLimber up for the olympics
Don’t be fooled — winning the Olympics is of global importance, but will the industry be able to deliver it better than Barcelona or smoother than Sydney? Olufunmi Majekodunmi explores what it takes to deliver the best games ever
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Archive TitlesDo you know what it is yet?
It's a view of the giant funnel to encompass the 60 member debating chamber of the Welsh Assembly building. The project designed by Richard Rogers Partnership is nearing completion and final inspections are being carried out. Work on timber panelling, flooring and chamber desks for the main debating chamber will ...
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Opportunity knocks
Ken Holmes tells Stephen Kennett how he hopes to inject a little more focus and collaboration into the healthcare sector. In association with Ferroli
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Archive TitlesRight man for the job?
Appointing senior roles is always risky. But what can be done to reduce the chances of getting the wrong person?
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Archive TitlesProvisioning and Identity
Provisioning is the task of ensuring that, at all times during their career with a given employer, members of staff enjoy the necessary access privileges, equipment and other IT resources they need in order to fulfil their role. Managing that process both accurately and efficiently – not to mention within ...
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How was your summer?
Gossip, strange facts and miscellany from the silly season of 2005
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Archive TitlesHydrogen could hold solution for Unst
The world’s first hydrogen economy could be created on the island of Unst in the Shetlands. The proposal has been put forward by Tony Marmont of Beacon Energy as means of creating a new industry following the decision to close the RAF Saxa Vord early warning station with the loss ...
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Archive TitlesRainbow on the Road in Herts
CCTVLenses from Rainbow CCTV are being used as part of the surveillance systems at Watford FC’s Vicarage Road stadium.The model being used is a 6.5-65 mm focal length zoom which is compatible with 1/3” and ¼” cameras. The lenses are sited on one of the stadium’s main gantries in PTZ ...