All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 399
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Archive TitlesEfficient?
Last month leading contractor Ray O'Rourke declared that the construction industry in the UK and Ireland wasted £25bn a year. Now a new report exclusively revealed to QS News underlines O'Rourke's complaints, concluding that the UK and Ireland are bottom of the European construction efficiency league. And the reasons for ...
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Archive TitlesDM is the Star!
Dedicated Micros has delivered an advanced CCTV solution to provide effective security at ITV Granada's headquarters in Manchester
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Archive TitlesUK finance houses "living in fear" of reputational damage
Major players in the UK financial services sector are becoming increasingly concerned over the reputational risks posed by the huge rises in ID theft crime across the country
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Who's dealing with cybercrime?
SIR - I'm glad that Prime Minister Tony Blair is planning to make life Hell for gangsters, drug traffickers and fraudsters with the help of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) (‘SOCA: is this Britain's FBI?', SMT, September 2005, ) and the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (‘Maltby ...
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Archive TitlesWorld Cup ticket touting exposed
Event security at the World Cup, which kicks off this month in Germany, has been "seriously threatened" by unauthorised ticket sales, according to the latest research conducted by G4S Security Services (UK).While online auction sites often promote themselves as offering bargains, G4S Security Services (UK)'s study conducted between 1 and ...
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Archive TitlesQSs must ‘stop squabbling' claims new RICS president
Tuffin urges members to come up with ideas to change the institution, not complaints
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Nothing but a Pilferer's Chart
SIR - If a retailer is losing stock it affects all of us because that retailer is then not making the profits anticipated. Prices will increase to cover the losses. As such, the honest customer pays for the acts of the dishonest.
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Musical chairs
What is - and has been - going on at the Home Office? Following Home Secretary Charles Clarke's rather indecorous departure from the Cabinet in the wake of what has been aptly described as the ‘foreign prisoner fiasco', his successor John Reid subsequently informs the House of Commons' Home Affairs ...
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Archive TitlesCutting the waste: The QS News guide to how a logistics centre works
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Archive TitlesHuman Rights and CCTV
Articles 6 and 8 of the Human Rights Act - dealing with the right to a fair trial and the right to respect of privacy - can have a significant bearing on monitoring operations. Brian Sims examines this area (in addition to covert surveillance and contracts on site) as part ...
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Wembley cases to drag on
Legal action over the late-running Wembley stadium job will run until at least the next decade, an expert claimed this week
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Archive TitlesLetter from Cape Town
The skills drain is still ongoing and yet more power cuts are expected, but at least the government realises it must start recruiting overseas to avert a national crisis. Project manager Denis Lillie (left) reports on the continuing dramas in Cape Town
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Building the business case
Given the ever-present threat of terrorism, it is little surprise that security has ascended the Boardroom agenda (and not before time). However, many companies still treat security provision as a low-cost, commodity purchase. Nothing more than a standard procurement issue. Here, Douglas Greenwell explains the importance of deploying licensed, contracted ...
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Archive TitlesDickinson defends the BSIA's role in a post-regulation landscape
BSIA chief executive David Dickinson used the IFSEC Security Industry Awards Dinner on Monday 8 May as a platform to explain the vital need for a "vibrant and challenging" Trade Association in a post-regulation environment. Brian Sims offers this exclusive report from the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel
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Archive TitlesBroadband stand
In recent months, SMT has served as the fulcrum for a largely theoretical debate on the perceived merits and disbenefits of using IP-based alarm monitoring solutions. Now, solutions provider WebWayOne has teamed up with installer Kings Security in completing a major IP systems roll-out for Dixons Stores Group outlets right ...
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Archive TitlesLowe's Rose looks set to bloom following sale to Francis Graves
A ‘straightforward' deal leaves PM firm's founder confident of bigger things to come
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Archive TitlesBlair sets out key priorities for new Home Secretary John Reid
Prime Minister Tony Blair has made public protection, immigration, counter-terrorism, policing and the ‘Respect' agenda top priorities for the Home Office
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Birmingham in top gear
Council leads project management table running its own £2.2bn project while Davis Langdon keeps its place at number one in the QS league despite a drop in workload
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The Big Issue
Of late, people have been asking me this question: "What is the role of the BSIA now that part of our industry is subject to statutory regulation?"