All Features articles – Page 557
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Thames Water Utilities
Procurement policyFollowing publication of its forward works programme in the EU's Official Journal, Thames Water has approved 24 contractors and 10 consultants to help it deliver its capital works programme. These alliance contracts will run for three years, with an option to extend for two. From this list, three alliances ...
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Transco
Procurement policyLike all utility companies, Transco is covered by European Union regulations in terms of its capital purchasing. For example, all major contracts are advertised in the EU's Official Journal.The company uses a range of contracts, framework agreements, call-off contracts, turnkey contracts and competitive tendering. For example, contracts for new ...
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United Utilities
Procurement policyEngineering services are provided by Montgomery Watson Harza, which liaises with the company's Process Design Group to help ensure that signature design and asset standardisation is obtained. To rationalise the supply chain of strategic equipment, the water company has entered into 42 term contracts for the design, supply and ...
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Whitbread
Procurement policyStrategic partnering is the main procurement route used by Whitbread, including for its hotels, Brewers Fayre and Costa operations. Design-and-build contracts are also used occasionally.Current and future projectsWhitbread's transformation from a brewing and leisure conglomerate into a pure leisure and hotel group is proving successful. While the Marriott/Swallow hotel ...
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Construction firms face loss of 1000 key staff as call-ups start for Iraq
Industry braced for disruption as reservists begin to leave their construction posts and join their regiments.
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Unions call for 64% rise in pay over three years …
… but employers offer 10% as the latest round of the national minimum wage agreement gets under way.
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FeaturesCalifornia SW6
The latest addition to the grey streets of west London is CZWG's crazily (and controversially) coloured Fulham Island. Even on a snowy winter morning, this mixed-use development-cum-fairground attraction conjures up sunshine and California beaches.
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FeaturesBattle of Trafalgar
The pigeons have left Trafalgar Square, but a new menace has arrived – contractors causing chaos. And yet the British public has such low expectations of builders, it hasn't logged a single complaint. With this going on, what hope do we have of attracting talent to our industry?
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Going steady
This month, although the outlook for the industry remains positive, the rate of growth looks set to fall from the dizzy heights of 2002
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Local lowdown
In the latest of his series on regional job markets, Robert Smith of recruitment consultant Hays Montrose looks at the South Coast, where QSs are in BIG demand
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FeaturesTake the spring out of your step
Lightweight floor slabs deliver maximum ceiling heights and cost savings, but have a tendency to develop Millennium Bridge syndrome. Now a shock-absorbing solution – developed by Arup, of course – is set to put workers' feet back on firm ground.
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FeaturesRafael Viñoly
The Uruguayan's idea of resurrecting New York's twin towers as refined replicas of their former selves was an attempt to imagine how the city would look in 25 years.We asked him where the inspiration came from
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Tender price forecast: Haze across the horizon
With a war looming, shares prices plummeting and the office market in London freezing, it’s all but impossible to know what will happen next. But building tender prices and workload are still likely to continue their steady rise
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Stress busters
We speak to stress councillor Patricia Justice about feeling under pressure at work, and what you can do about it …
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FeaturesPhysically challenged
Regulatory changes aimed at giving disabled people full access to public buildings are creating big business for contractors. But with few guidelines to help, how do firms know what to do? Cue the rise of the latest construction professional – the access consultant.
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FeaturesChurchill Hospital hospice: A design for life
Creating an environment in which terminally ill patients can enjoy the rest of their lives requires the utmost sensitivity and imagination in the architect’s choice of materials. We look at how Nightingale Associates went about the task at an Oxford hospice
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Lifetime costs: sanitaryware
The choice of sanitaryware in hospitals and healthcare schemes is a crucial one – but how to decide what to go for? Peter Mayer of Building Performance Group examines the whole-life costs of components