All Features articles – Page 588
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Five things to know about accounting standards
Why worry about International Accounting Standards?All stock-market listed companies in the European Union must prepare their accounts under International Accounting Standards by 2005 at the latest. This will make it easier to compare companies throughout the Continent.Isn’t 2005 still a long way off?Annual reports for 2005 must contain IAS-compliant comparative ...
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FeaturesAction stations
The British Army is about as tough as clients get: complex, demanding, and heavily armed. Victoria Madine looks at how contractors can get a piece of its rapidly increasing capital budget, and on pages 45-46 Marcus Fairs interviews a general who's also a construction guru
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Appointments
Contractors Midlands contractor William Sapcote & Sons has appointed Phil Livesey, previously with Mansell, senior project surveyor. HousebuildersJayne Boldison has been appointed sales adviser at Cala Homes. She was previously with property agent DTZ. David Taylor has joined Crest Nicholson Residential as design manager for Attwood Green in Birmingham. Consultants ...
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Product innovation: Composite structural beams
Composite structural beams could revolutionise the way long-span structures such as stadiums or bridges are built. They are less than a quarter of the weight of traditional reinforced beams and have the same ultimate load capacity. Their light weight is also an advantage in situations where transporting and installing them ...
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Strategic choices
What was so interesting about the league of European contractors Building published last month?
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FeaturesThe mask of command
After an exemplary career in the military, Sir Antony Walker has taken up service with Aqumen. He tells Marcus Fairs some of his secrets of leadership.
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FeaturesCost model: Prefabrication and preassembly
How can prefabrication and preassembly deliver the buildings that clients and designers aspire to? In this cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest looks at case studies of recent applications of preassembly techniques
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FeaturesTerry Farrell
When an ennobled architect suggests tearing down the walls of Buckingham Palace, you know you're dealing with something of a nonconformist. Mark Leftly finds out what Terry's rebelling against.
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First taste
Ian Shaw, personnel manager at contractor Simons Construction, explains how and why firms should put a good work experience programme in place
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FeaturesAs hard as it gets
Zaha Hadid's Wolfsburg Science Centre is probably the most complicated structure humanity has ever tried to build. To get it right has required the harnessing of some great engineering minds and multiple software upgrades. Andy Pearson finds out how it will be done
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On shaky ground
The Millennium Bridge should have been British engineering's finest hour. Instead, it has become a metaphor for a profession in crisis.
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FeaturesNorthern light
Oldham's outlandish art gallery will form the centrepiece of a new cultural quarter, as part of the troubled city's ambitious regeneration plans. Martin Spring took a peek at Pringle Richards Sharrat's answer to Peckham Library.
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Appointments
ContractorsMidlands firm William Sapcote has appointed Phil Livesey senior project surveyor in Birmingham. He was previously a PQS with Mowlem.Gary Charnock (left) has joined Willmott Dixon as general foreman for the West Midlands. Wiltshier FM, the facilities management division of contractor Ballast, has appointed Robert Newton general manager. HousebuildersBellway Homes ...
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Bright young thing
Ben Tanner, winner of the Sir Ian Dixon Scholarship, which gives the industry's bright lights a chance to research a topic of their choice, talks to Victoria Madine
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The killer clients
Eganism is being threatened by a very different way of doing business, as blue-chip employers switch to 'reverse auction' tendering on the internet – a ruthless game in which the client picks off bidders until there is just one left.
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Don't go KPI nuts
These days, there's a benchmarking tool for everything – except the effectiveness of benchmarking. And as key performance indicators cost more than peanuts to implement, how can companies work out which ones are truly key to their performance?
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Five resources for working women
www.maternityalliance.org.uk has a vast store of information and guidance on maternity benefits and rights. It also deals with parental leave and has a section dedicated to up-and-coming employment legislation that affects women.www.womenback2work.co.uk offers women who've taken a career break advice, as well as publishing the experiences of those who've been ...