All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 581
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It’s not all about the larger contractors...
If – as BSIA chief executive David Dickinson suggests – it comes to pass that the 2,500 security companies are whittled down to around the 200 mark or less, that represents a massive shake-up of the status quo.
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Archive TitlesRebranding at Group 4 Securicor
Security giant Group 4 Securicor gas announced the launch of a new brand identity across its global business.
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Archive TitlesBosch scoops 2005 IFSEC Award for Product of the Year
Bosch Security Systems has won the prestigious IFSEC Security Industry Innovation Product of the Year and Intruder Alarm Product of the Year Awards for its Easy Series of intrusion control panels.
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Speak up
I have just read the absorbing article by Charles Johnston on page 9 of QS News (20 May).
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We told you so
“Tropus did not consider … that the Multiplex construction cost offer had been properly interrogated.” So said a report by the former project manager of the £435m new Wembley stadium back in 2001. The Tropus report questioned the way the project was let out to Multiplex in late 2000 and ...
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Archive TitlesFranklin transforms Leeds
Franklin + Andrews is the cost consultant on the £75m Leeds Gateway project, which aims to transform an industrial site.
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That’ll learn ’em
Higher education is failing to provide modern courses. But don’t blame the universities; blame the institutions that should be holding them to account, says John Hobson
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Archive TitlesEasy street
The government’s dramatic-sounding challenge to build homes for £60,000 turns out to be less of a struggle if you look at what the price doesn’t include. So, asks Stuart Macdonald, is the competition a waste of time, or will it improve the quality of Britain’s new homes?
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Archive TitlesDiary of a housing QS
What’s it like to work in the social housing sector? QS News enlisted the help of Mash Halai, 30, an associate partner at John Rowan and Partners, to give an insight into the sector. Mash works in London and started at JRP in his university sandwich year in 1995
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T&T Leicester deal at risk
Turner & Townsend could lose its role on Rafael Viñoly’s performing arts centre in Leicester as the council considers whether to axe the project owing to spiralling costs.
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Contracts
Big plans for EdinburghTurner & Townsend is the management consultant for a £6.6m project to build a new entrance to Edinburgh’s Waverly station. Glasgow NHS seeks QSGreater Glasgow NHS is looking for a QS to work on a £5.5m in-patient facility from the design stage through to construction. Balkan move ...
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MoD trials new Prime Plus contract
Major public sector client Defence Estates is to experiment with a new type of contract as an alternative to the PFI, writes Roxanne McMeeken. The new contract allows new-build and refurbishment projects to be funded through the expected proceeds of the disposal of sites.
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Archive TitlesMace set to continue global expansion following profit growth
New chief executive turns his attention to India and the USA as the multidisciplinary firm’s pre-tax profit jumps 28%
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Archive TitlesDavis Langdon wins World Trade Centre QS role
Davis Langdon’s US arm has scooped the role of cost consultant on the team designing the Cultural Centre in New York’s World Trade Centre. It is putting its San Francisco and New York offices on the job, which is due to start on 6 June.
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Archive TitlesMultiplex statement casts shadow on Wembley
Fears were growing this week over the completion of the £435m new Wembley stadium as contractor Multiplex admitted it would lose £45m on the scheme.
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Archive TitlesBrad Pitt seeks QS – no, honestly
A firm of quantity surveyors may find themselves on a design team with Hollywood actor Brad Pitt – but the star will have to wait until next year to find out which one.
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Archive TitlesMiddle East boom sends construction costs soaring
Steep rises in Dubai spread to rest of region, leaving contractors unable to commit on price
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Archive TitlesArcadis to acquire AYH
International consultancy Arcadis set to snap up UK QS and project manager for £16m
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£900m Tube deal goes to Parsons Brinkerhoff
Parsons Brinkerhoff has landed the programme manager’s job on the ambitious project to extend the East London Line.