All Archive Titles articles – Page 555
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Affordable - keeping installers in the black
Blackpool-based Affordable Windows Systems, has introduced Ebony or ‘Black’ frames as standard to their Timberlook PVC-u window range.
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Advantage Windows in a click
Advantage Windows and Conservatories Ltd – the Cheshire based fabricator, has launched a new pricing software package that has been developed exclusively over the past six months.
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Adaptable Supertrucks
The modern HGV glass carrying body has changed over the last five years and is safer and much more versatile than its predecessors.
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Sapa achieves Kitemark
Sapa Building Systems has been awarded a BS4873 Kitemark for its Dualframe dual-colour window system.
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Nick looks more closely at the problem of overcapacity, Why did we go to Abilene?
Nick Dutton, Sales & Marketing Director of Synseal Extrusions, looks at the problems of overcapacity and how management by consensus can lead to bad decisions being made
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Archive TitlesIndustry veteran started his own business at 60 David stays ‘age positive’
Whilst many of his contemporaries are taking it easy with their feet up and a glass of malt at their side, David Randall has absolutely no intention of retiring
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500 Technal windows for rivers
Architectural aluminium systems specialist Technal, has supplied 500 windows and doors for an award-winning urban riverside regeneration scheme in London developed by St. George.
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40 years of Sash UK
Medieval themed family event. Over 800 guests – dressed in authentic period costume – enjoyed medieval entertainment and cuisine in an encampment specially recreated in the grounds of a local hotel.
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Archive Titles1279: The Clocks Ticking
The clock is now ticking for Insulating Glass Unit (IGU) manufacturers, following the publication of Part 5 of EN 1279: Glass In Building – Insulating Glass Units in May 2005. Although the standard has not yet been cited in the Official Journal of the European Union, signifying that EN 1279 ...
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Cyclists raise 30,000
Shepley Window Systems MD Gary Torr, has completed an exhausting journey as part of a team of 10 who cycled over 900 miles from John O’Groats to Lands End for charity. The journey was completed in 13 days and has so far raised in excess of £30,000 for Hope House ...
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Turkingtons saves 15,000 pa thanks to Profitmaker
Sometimes it can be hard to quantify in monetary terms the savings that can be made by choosing the right software. Ian Young, General Manager of Turkington Windows and Conservatories (see shop floor picture - right), a long standing Profitmaker customer has done the sums: ‘We’ve calculated that using Profitmaker ...
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Appointments
Security Management Today keeps you up-to-date with all the latest people moves in the security sector
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QSs must reform tender process
QSs and project managers must reform the tender process to stop projects running over budget, a senior QS has said.
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The University of Life
Here we go again, knocking the QS degree programmes for not concentrating on taking off (Life is too short, QS News, 12 August).
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The missing ingredient
I can concur with Ken Thompson’s letter (Life is too short, QS News, 12 August).
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Archive TitlesThe exam lottery
Over a third of APC candidates fail the exam the first time. Victoria Madine investigates why the failure rate has remained static since the RICS created the qualification six years ago and discovers that the onus to improve the pass rate is on supervisors as well as candidates.
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Ditty from the Seventies
In response to Robin Campbell’s memorable ditty (Back in our day..., QS News, 1 July), in my old days (circa 1970s), our memorable ditty was even better – SOH CAH TOA (pronounced SOCATOA). Anil Vadgama, Quantity Surveyor
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Coleman Street project gets off the ground
Work has begun on a £2.1m office building for Pillar Properties at 1 Coleman Street, London. Davis Langdon is the QS on the job, while the contractor is Bovis Lend Lease.
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Future Capital of Culture seek
Merseytravel, owner of Mersey Ferries, will soon be on the look out for a cost consultant and project management team to help create its £4m terminal building at Pier Head, Liverpool.