All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 592
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Archive TitlesEthical investment for Coles
Project manager Jackson Coles has overseen the completion of newly refurbished headquarters for ethical investment firm Foursome Investments. The scheme, in Birkenhead Street in King’s Cross, central London, used sustainable and environmentally friendly building materials and techniques. The former mews buildings have been converted into bright, open-plan office accommodation for ...
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Health and education keep Davis Langdon busy
Davis Langdon is celebrating a slew of new project wins, including the largest PFI hospital development programme outside London, the Pathway scheme in Leicestershire.
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Break on through to the other side
Regeneration is too important to be left to the politicians. Here seven top decision-makers from the regeneration world tell the new government how to really make a difference on the ground. Josephine Smit took the minutes
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Archive TitlesEC Harris bolsters Nottingham office
EC Harris has moved to strengthen its Nottinghamshire building surveying division by appointing Stephen Dobinson as its regional head. Dobinson, previously a director of local practice Church Lukas, brings his regional contacts and 14 years’ experience to the division, which will provide consultancy and project-based services.
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Archive TitlesF&G beefs up its South-east team
Consultant’s strategic promotions head up this week’s appointments special
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Archive TitlesContract change saves project team’s bacon
A client has insisted on making a crucial change to a contract for a central London office refurbishment, following a bitter dispute between teams members over – what else – bacon sandwiches.
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Haley Somerset moves back into black
Haley Somerset Consulting’s latest results reveal it made a profit last year, bouncing back from its losses of the year before.
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Archive TitlesFoster Wheeler Energy ties up deal with Saudi Arabian chemical firm
Foster Wheeler, the global project management firm, has won a project engineering services contract for a new chemicals plant in Saudi Arabia’s Al-Jubail industrial city.
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Archive TitlesA man for all seasons
David Taylor, businessman, politician and father of English Partnerships, has arguably done more than anyone to show how regeneration should work. Josephine Smit asks him what his secret is
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Archive TitlesQSs are still in cheapest price ‘Dark Ages’, claims Midas chairman
A leading contractor has hit out at quantity surveyors for still adhering to the cheapest price mentality in tendering construction work.
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Talking about destruction
It all looked so simple back in 2003 when John Prescott launched the sustainable communities plan. Row upon row of dead or dying two-up, two-downs in the Pathfinder areas of the North and Midlands were to be grubbed up and carted off, seed money was to be sown and the ...
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Archive TitlesEC Harris set for major deal with Shell to oversee 40 production sites
Link up with oil and gas giant to move consultancy firm into global energy production management
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Housing Today update
After a period of careful consideration, CMP Information Ltd, publishers of Housing Today, has regrettably decided to close the magazine. The final issue of Housing Today was published on 29 April 2005.Following the creation of a joint venture between The National Housing Federation and the Builder Group, part of ...
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The search for space
How can contractors and consultants win business in the recovering commercial offices sector? Three of the country’s biggest companies offered some tips at a special one-day conference, and Olufunmi Majekodunmi was there, notebook in hand...
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Archive TitlesPlaying it safe
The need to design out health and safety risks has long been recognised by the industry – and two new initiatives could just make it happen.
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Archive TitlesShow piece
Copenhagen’s new opera house was not only built in record-breaking time, it is also a model of building services and acoustic design. We find out how the team staged the performance of a lifetime
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Archive TitlesNew Products
Giving a boost Jaga Heating Products has launched the Dynamic Boost Effect heating solution. The DBE units are designed to be mounted onto the heating elements of the company’s range of low water radiators and boost the output by drawing air across the heat exchanger using up to six small ...
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You must be mistaken
I was both saddened and annoyed to read Ian Brown’s letter (BSj 04/05).