All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 591
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What’s in a name?
I thought QS News a wonderful initiative. Good though Building magazine is, there is still a huge hole in the market for the sort of RICS specialisms that are fast becoming broader fields of professional activity. You’ll probably have to rename the magazine eventually, as ‘QS’ is not the best ...
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Archive TitlesThe running man
What does Stephen Partridge do by way of relaxation when he's not running the London-based Litchfield Group? Er, the odd marathon or 10 – including an extraordinarily exhausting series of six in six days across more than 100 miles in the stifling heat of the Sahara Desert. The 52-year-old (a ...
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JCT ops for litigation
Major changes to construction contracts due to come out this month could lead to much less use of arbitration.
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From where I’m sitting …
What do the public and private sectors want from the new government?
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How to play Quangómon
Urban regeneration in this country is undertaken, regulated, facilitated, funded or organised by a bewildering variety of quasi-autonomous beasties, all with their own peculiar powers and roles. Here’s a guide to who does what to whom, together with a handy set of contacts and phone numbers. By David Blackman, illustrations ...
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(Too) gently does it
The DTI’s consultation paper on the Construction Act aims to settle payment disputes and revise the adjudication system, but it doesn’t go far enough.
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Archive TitlesWould the real QS please step forward?
We asked a selection of industry figures for their views on today’s quantity surveyor – some agreed that the profession had changed in the past five years, but the reactions of others proved that the old stereotypes still persist.
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Archive TitlesMcBains duo promoted
Demonstrating a neat symmetry in their career paths, John Connolly and Julian Symons, who joined McBains Cooper in 1999, have been promoted to associate directors of the asset management division in the consultant’s London office. Connolly’s experience lies in the commercial, residential and industrial sectors, and Symons has specialised in ...
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Same difference
Have the differences between the construction professions blurred in recent years? With the ongoing drive in the industry to promote partnering and a team approach to working one might think so. Add also the increasing movement between contracting and consultancy in terms of staff and we might well be seeing ...
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Archive TitlesSix-storey residential development in Wandsworth,
This six-storey residential development in Wandsworth, south-west London, has received planning permission. Client Berkeley Homes will handle cost control internally through its commercial manager. The architect is TP Bennett.
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Southwark development uses Polish prefabs
Britain’s first demountable multistorey housing development (above) is to be erected this week in Southwark, south London, for Hyde Housing Association. The three-storey block of 18 key worker flats, which is prefabricated in volumetric modules in Poland, will be demounted and reassembled on a different site in five years.
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Demolition row
A couple of years ago, a consensus formed among Whitehall, local government, business and public opinion that the only thing to do with large areas of urban blight in the North and Midlands was to knock it down and start again. This was expressed in the Sustainable Communities Plan, and ...
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Public spending in decline
The government is struggling to meet its expenditure plans, according to research from the RICS, reports Roxane McMeeken.
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Firms vie for tram deal
Leading firms including Mott MacDonald, Arup and Babtie are vying to oversee a £470m tram system planned for Edinburgh.
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New project controls unit at T&T
Turner & Townsend has launched a business unit dedicated to project controls. The functions of estimating and cost monitoring hitherto carried out by multiple departments will be consolidated into a single operation, project controls.
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Archive TitlesThe dreams that didn’t come true
Thirty years ago, the closure of London docks ripped out West Silvertown’s heart. Twelve years ago, architect John Thompson and the residents imagined a dramatic plan to put it back. Two weeks ago, the architect went with Elaine Knutt to find out what happened to that vision. Tim Foster took ...