All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 455
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Archive TitlesA standard for life
Andy Green explains the urgent need for agreed standards in life cycle costing and why the new ISO document could be just what the industry needs to establish consistency in its approach to measuring the lifespan of buildings.
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QS lands role on Restoration
A project team has been appointed for the restoration of a historic Manchester swimming pool given prominence in a recent BBC TV series,
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Randall joins the rankings
A small Devon-based outfit breaks into the ABI league while Davis Langdon manages to dominate both the QS and PM tables based on work won over the last 12 months
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Archive TitlesT&T goes wild with the RSPB in Teeside
Turner & Townsend has been appointed as cost manager on a £7m wild bird watching centre in Saltholme, Teesside. The client is the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. The architect is Jane Derbyshire & David Kendall.
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QSs get a pasting in the Guardian
The profession receives a working over in weekend national newspaper
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Archive TitlesCore issues
Do you know your magnoxes from your AGRs? With new builds on the cards and £56bn to be spent on decommissioning, there's plenty of upcoming work in the nuclear sector. Roxane McMeeken offers a six-point guide to the market
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Changing the mechanism
In the first of two reports, Alistair Day (left) looks at the DTI's proposals for improving payment practices in the Construction Act. Next week, the changes that could be made to adjudication
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Brand names
Have you ever wondered who those grand old names of QSing were, under whose monikers firms still trade today? Or wondered who invented the cost plan, worked on the first lunatic asulym or guessed the vital role of the Belchers in the development of the profession?
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Brand names continued...
Continuing Danusia Osiowy's investigation into the histrories of the grand old names of QSing, two more illustrious histories are revealed in this web exclusive
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Project autopsy
This week, Elvin discusses Ben in 'The Apprentice' and offers his advice on the next steps for Wembley
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Archive TitlesOpposites attract top firms to Gloucestershire
Faithful+Gould and Ridge have won work on contrasting schemes in Gloucestershire. F+G's project is a far cry from its recent project wins, which include a meaty $1.5bn (£861.77m) plant construction scheme for chemicals producer Huntsman BASF in Shanghai. This latest win is an altogether more refined project to transform an ...
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Archive TitlesChandlerKBS ascends Snowdonia nuclear site
ChandlerKBS is beginning a key phase of work for British Nuclear Group (BNG) at a former power station in Snowdonia national park, Wales.
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Top up fees fail to dampen spirits as university applications rise
UCAS reports an increase in built environment acceptances despite the higher study costs
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Wembley and the Dark Ages
One can agree with one take on the Wembley debacle, where the client has finally seen sense and admitted it won't be finished, that the end product is what matters rather than short-term difficulties.
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The final account
Construction's last word on a little Lycra, Herefordshire farms and Disney characters
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EC Harris set to take major equity stake in £245m school scheme
QS teams up with Alfred McAlpine to bid for first wave of £2.2bn BSF programme
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ODA chair Lemley reveals his 2012 procurement strategy
Disputes to be resolved during construction and contractors to be involved early on
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Archive TitlesSwansea's SA1 underway
EC Harris has completed work on three key infrastructure sites in the Swansea SA1 development area.
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