All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 441
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Archive TitlesThese boots are made for working
How will an import duty tax on footwear affect safety on sites? EMC puts the boot in to find out.
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Birmingham lights the way
What do a former custard factory, medical mission and viaduct have in common? They all took centre stage in a recent lighting festival in Birmingham.
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Archive TitlesModel behaviour
The latest 3D data models are offering contractors significant benefits above and beyond improved visual representation. EMC reports on the Building Smart concept.
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Haden Young has been named
as part of a consortium to build the £24 million Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
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Archive TitlesRed diesel ban to be widened
Government plans to outlaw the use of low-tax red diesel in truck-mounted access platforms could have a major impact on construction costs. Access equipment supplier Nationwide Access has warned that the additional costs incurred will affect the entire supply chain.
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Archive TitlesA question of authority
To what extent can a third party bind its employers to terms that it has negotiated for them with contractors? James Duckworth advises that you check the terms of authority.
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CDM launch announced
The HSE has announced a new timetable for the implementation of the Construction (Design and Management) (CDM) Regulations. Now due to be launched in Spring 2007, the implementation has been postponed from October 2006 in response to a three-month consultation exercise carried out by the HSC.
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Archive TitlesAnalyse this
John Langmaid continues his series on the ins and outs of whole life cost analysis of building services.
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Archive TitlesNHS Valley project names Acute Hospital preffered bidder
Equion-led consortium chosen to lead £248m project in Scotland
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Box's blog
More from Elvin on workspaces, metaphors, football managers and 'The Apprentice'
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Archive TitlesSetting sales for Videcon
Videcon has appointed Kelsey Wilkinson as its new sales executive. She joined Videcon's internal sales team in December last year to support its accounts in the south of England.
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Archive TitlesPoll results, plus have your say on Wembley
Do QSs still do what they say they do on the tin any more, namely carry out bills of quantities?
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Archive TitlesPayback time
With energy efficiency and sustainability high on the list, the brief for the National Trust's new HQ in Swindon was always going to be tough. But collaboration and some unique investment rules made it work.
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No overrun
Merited as the RICS and RLF responses are (to the Guardian attack), they really miss the point.
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What those new PDAs have to offer
We now know the BlackBerry (or CrackBerry to some) is an invaluable tool for keeping in touch with the office, but there have been a host of other new entrants to the smartphone/PDA market. QS News profiles some of the newer devices
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‘Largest' IP project planned for Lanarkshire
Telewest Business has won a contract with North Lanarkshire Council to deploy one of the largest IP CCTV solutions in Europe.
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Installers sign up with NASIC
Four new members have joined NASIC, the Nationwide Association of Security Installation Companies.
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Installer skills and knowledge
A lack of knowledge and skills amongst installers has been cited as one of the key obstacles to the adoption of IP surveillance in an industry survey.