All Archive Titles articles – Page 586
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Hip to be square
With regards to your QS quiz in the 27 May issue, if you are attempting to calculate length of hip rafter (ie the diagonal line on the diagram, sloping from corner up to ridge level), then the correct calculation should be: square root ((tan 30° x half span)2 + 2(half ...
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Archive TitlesG&T looks to the heavens
Gardiner & Theobald is acting as construction manager on the National Maritime Museum’s £15m development of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
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Archive TitlesUK industry grows at slowest rate for three-and-a-half years
Experts warn construction is becoming increasingly dependent on government spending
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Glad not to be a graduate
I was interested to read your article on professional education in the issue of 27 May.
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Measurement is a fundamental
I believe that measurement is one of several core skills that a quantity surveyor must possess.
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Archive TitlesLatham launches fund to increase industry students
CITB chairman wants wider support for academia from Government and the industry
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EC Harris handles major solar power project
EC Harris is working on the UK’s largest solar power project. Manchester’s 400m CIS Tower is to be clad in solar panels in a job costing £5.5m and due to finish in December 2005.
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Archive Titles‘New York taught me discipline
Newly appointed RLF associate Craig Bridges takes his post in the firm’s Glasgow office after five years at Currie & Brown in New York. Here he shares his experience of quantity surveying in the USA
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Archive TitlesGet QS News delivered to your desktop with our digital edition
QS News will this month be available in a digital version. We trialled the new technology on last week’s edition and will be publishing QS News digitally over the next three weeks absolutely free.
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Time and cost still overrun
The construction industry is still not doing enough to improve its record on cost and time overruns, according to figures released this week by industry improvement body Constructing Excellence
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Some of us saw it coming
It will be interesting to see the response you receive with regard to the hip calculation shown in your quiz in the 27 May edition of QS News. The correct answer is 4.58 m, not the 3.46 m shown. I will leave it to you to spot the error.
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The UK becomes a target
Major merger activity doesn’t come thick and fast among QSs and project managers, which is why AYH’s proposed £21m sale to Dutch giant Arcadis is an intriguing one.
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I know my basics
I refer to your training and the article ‘Do you know your basics?’, in particular question 8 on calculating the length of the hip rafter where the roof pitch is 30° and span 6 m.
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Hyder follows pre-tax profits jump with Australian expansion plan
Weathered Howe acquisition in Queensland brings total Australian staff numbers up to 550
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Archive TitlesFrench architect Jean Nouvel’s plans for the City of London
Davis Langdon is the QS on a project at a key site near St Paul’s Cathedral. The redevelopment for Land Securities, called One New Change, was this week submitted to the Corporation of London. The scheme will create one of the largest consolidated retail spaces in central London, at 222,000 ...
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City Academies under review
Future schools under the government’s City Academy programme, such as the Petchey Academy planned for Hackney in east London, face value for money reviews by the Department of Education and Skills. QS News understands civil servants have delayed the programme so as to carry out assessments on future projects.
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City Academies on hold
The government’s drive to build more City Academies is on hold due to a review of the affordability of future schemes