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Archive TitlesIntroducing our new blogger
Kate Collinson, one of the non-cognates we interviewed last month, will be sharing her experiences both as student and trainee QS in her new blog. This is her first missive and you can follow her progress at www.qsnews.co.uk/blogs
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Understanding the patterns - relationships between clients and members
THE DOMINATING SET-UP - a consortium arrangement showing lines of communication between individual members of a consortium including the supply chain but excluding the client (fig 1).POOR COMUNICATION - a consortium showing external client and lines of communication between individual members of a consortium and the client, with little communication ...
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The Southeast QSs aiming high
Two medium-sized QS companies in the Southeast have outlined plans to grow by around 20% a year
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Archive TitlesHornagold & Hills steam ahead with rail plans
Hornagold & Hills is embarking on a push to build up business in the rail sector.
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Archive TitlesViewpoints - what individual members really think about consortia
For funders, the report says the main aim of setting up a consortium is to simply win the bid.
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New Part L regs to cost industry over £1.2bn a year
Commercial and public buildings will now cost an extra £29/m2, says ODPM report
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Remembering Hillsborough
17 years ago to the day, 96 football supporters were killed in Britain's worst-ever sporting disaster
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And the winner is ...
Who grabbed the spotlight at this year's Lighting Design Awards?
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SSE sells Thermal Transfer
The Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) Contracting Group has sold Thermal Transfer, its specialist service provider to the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, to ETDE for £20 million.
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Presidential view
Looking back over my term as ECA president, I am pleased to have been part of such a significant and challenging year for the Association: it is clear that the ECA is ever more influential in driving positive change in the industry.
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Poorly Part P
Part P is sadly not working. After so many years wishing for legislation like Corgi, the thought of JIB-approved electricians being recognised for their skills was like a breath of fresh air. Now, like many others, I feel let down by a scheme that has legalised the rogue trader and ...
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New NVQs
New NVQs, designed to provide skills in project supervision, estimating and broad technical engineering experience will soon be up and running.
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Archive TitlesMeasures to succeed
Now that Part L2 of the Building Regulations is in force, designers must provide a metering and sub-metering strategy for any new commercial build over 1000 m2. Steve Dyson provides some guidance.
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Radical thinking at the JIB
The partners in the Joint Industry Board, the ECA and Amicus, have put forward some radical ideas for making the organisation more relevant to today's working practices.
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Archive TitlesRaise the JIB
The ECA and Amicus came together once again for the 2006 JIB conference at Market Bosworth. Was it a repeat of the Battle of Bosworth or was it all peace and goodwill? Andrew Brister watched the action.
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Whole hearted
In the last article in the series, John Langmaid carries out a typical whole life cost analysis.
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In the frame
Eight years after Rethinking construction was published, have construction teams become more integrated? Robert Owen outlines how the water industry is adapting to partnership agreements.
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On the other foot
I was furious to read your article on the proposed import duty tax for footwear (‘These boots are made for working', EMC, April). The duty on Chinese footwear is intended as protection to both Italian and Polish footwear manufacturers. Where was this duty when the British footwear industry was going ...