All Features articles – Page 603
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Five tips for building your business
Satisfy your customerCustomers hold the key to long-term profitable growth. The customer should therefore be accorded the same respect as a manager: your business must ensure regular contact, provide innovative ideas, timely delivery of factual data, and keep appointments. Consider a single point of contact for your customers by appointing ...
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Ticking away
Housing associations have three years to become Egan-compliant if they want funding for their schemes. Does this herald a real change in culture – or just a bureaucratic obstacle course?
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Appointments
ContractorsBryan Diggins (right) has joined Kier Construction, the civil engineering arm of Kier Group, as operations director. He joins from Laing.HousebuildersTry Homes Thames Valley has promoted Zoe Dobbs to field sales manager. Graham Bell has been appointed planning and design manager. In addition, Tom Nicholson will head Try's new office ...
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Are you doing it right?
Everyone wants to achieve best practice, but how do you know if you have? One way is to use the Construction Best Practice Programme's online test. We asked three firms to put themselves under the Eganscope and report how they scored
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Making tracks
Michael Grant, chief executive of the Strategic Rail Authority, has the Herculean task of upgrading the UK's network. What chance does he have of pulling it off?
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Just the job
Megan Maclauran, project director for structural engineer Techniker tells Eloise Seddon why concept design gives her such a buzz and dogmatic people make her mad
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Stepping on the gas
BP man Struan Robertson is the first outsider to run the Wates' family concern in its 104-year history, and he's driving forward something of a quiet revolution.
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Five ways to make partnering work
Do you really need a partner?Do not enter into a partnering arrangement just because it is fashionable. Undertake a value management exercise to see whether effective change can be internalised: carry out an audit of your staff, resources and premises. You may find that you do not need to partner ...
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Margins of error
Cut-throat tendering is doing no good to the industry. Why do firms undersell themselves?
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The joy of decks
CZWG has taken the idea of 'streets in the sky' from the dustbin of history, repaired it and painted it red – and it wants us to join the fun. We report from the frontline of a sociable revolution.
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Glazed and confused
Changes to the Building Regulations mean that most of the window systems on the market will be obsolete in less than a year, but contractors appear oblivious to the danger they're in. Time to wake up?
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A credit to the City
Merrill Lynch's new City HQ is the biggest building you'll never see – its groundscraping design has satisfied the needs of modern bankers and the heritage lobby
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Appointments
ContractorsEast Midlands-based Allenbuild has appointed Pat Cassidy regional director.Development and construction company, S Harrison Development has appointed Ann Scott (right) company secretary.National building contractor, Dean and Bowes (Contracts) has appointed Charlie Lacy Scott sales and marketing director.HousebuildersMichael Black, previously with the Berkeley Group, has joined Laing Homes South East Thames ...
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Adjudication in Construction Contracts
Adjudication in Construction ContractsJohn RedmondBlackwell Science£50262 pagesIt is some time since there has been a new entry into the field of books on construction adjudication. John Redmond is a regular contributor to Building on adjudication matters, and I like his style. This style has been carried through into Adjudication in ...
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£23m coup thrusts Welsh contractor into top 20
Watkins Jones & Sons hit the big time in May, and Bovis dislodges Sir Robert McAlpine from top spot.
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Talking to plants
We should make sure we design buildings where plants can happily flourish - after all, they can tell us a lot about the environment we're working in
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Learning the lingo
When your boss tells you that as a result of synergy your department is about to undergo a paradigm shift, what do they mean?
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Learning difficulties
Prefabrication is no quick-fix solution to the lack of skills in construction, warns a new report. It says the UK's approach to training and innovation is lagging well behind other European countries …
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Neil Cossons
Ken Livingstone accused English Heritage of jeopardising London's economic future by opposing tall buildings. Now its chief executive is hitting back.