All Features articles – Page 606
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Appointments
ContractorsAndrew Bradley has joined Morgan Lovell, the specialist workplace fit-out division of Morgan Sindall, as financial director in the London office.Fitzpatrick has promoted Graham Hall to civil engineering estimating director; Ray Hussey becomes building estimating director.ConsultantsConsulting engineer White Young Green has appointed David Blake associate director in the mechanical and ...
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Art and Industry
French photographer Etienne Clément has spent the past three years documenting a Gateshead grain silo's transformation into an arts centre. Ten months before it opens, here are some of the results …
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Passing the baton
What happens when the boss retires? Panic? Backstabbing? A lack of direction? Better to plan for the succession, so there is a smooth handover …
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On the cards
we look at how to become the proud owner of a CSCS card – and why workers may not be able to get jobs on site without one.
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Cost model: Co-location centres
The co-location centre market is set for strong long-term growth. Davis Langdon & Everest and specialist M&E cost consultant Mott Green and Wall explain the high level of electrical and mechanical services required and provide a cost breakdown for a model development
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The contenders
Meet Gus Robinson, Jane Briginshaw and Bernard Bateman, three construction professionals who have put their careers on hold to stand for election. Can they beat the heavyweight opposition?
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End of the pier show
Isolated more than a mile out in the Thames estuary, relying on deliveries by ship once a fortnight, blasted by relentless gale-force winds, a team of workers is struggling to erect a lifeboat station.
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Survival of the fittest
Oliver Jones - To prosper in the changing market, consultants must become innovative service providers
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Five tips on setting up a website
Register your domain nameDo this as soon as possible. If you are an international company, ensure that you are registered as .com and .co.uk. The registration fee is £20 per name with www.domainnames.co.uk and www.freeparking.co.uk, to name but two. This will last two years, when it can be renewed.Get your ...
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Can Labour tackle the skills shortage?
The New Deal for young unemployed people was one of New Labour's big ideas. Three years later, and with an argument still raging about its success, the party plans to revamp it to solve construction's recruitment crisis.
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Material world
How can a project be truly sustainable? Look beyond the client to the community
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Five things you should know about work-related stress
What is the scale of the problem?Stress-related absenteeism costs an estimated £4bn a year and is the biggest occupational health problem in the UK after musculoskeletal disorders such as back complaints. The CBI estimates that 30 times as many days are lost from mental ill-health as from industrial disputes.Who does ...
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Wise, after the event
Chris Wise was Arup's star engineer when he came up with the design of the Millennium Bridge. He didn't foresee the wobble at the time, but if he had, he would have gone ahead anyway.
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Appointments
ContractorsWilliam Sapcote & Sons has promoted Ian Burford to development director. Paul Dockerill and Keith Learoyd have been promoted to associate directors.NG Bailey & Co has appointed Alison Ashworth-Brown craft training department manager. HousebuildersDavid Hill, previously with Lovell Partnerships, has joined Redrow Homes' South Wales division as a quantity surveyor. ...
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To Hull and back
Two years after John Prescott took Lord Rogers on a tour of a run-down estate in Hull, Tom Broughton visited the city to find out if things had changed. He found an urban renaissance barely able to keep pace with the disillusionment of residents.
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Bending the rules
Only five wooden gridshells have ever been built, and none without broken timbers. Here's how the team behind this one, the roof of a Sussex museum, is cracking the conundrum.
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Get paid on time
Nick Antoniou - How can businesses protect themselves against late or non-payment of invoices?
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The good life
They feud about tea bags and rodent rights, they take afternoon tea together every day and have cycle paths in the office. Meet Feilden Clegg Bradley, the firm that won Building's best practice award.
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Opening night
Given the weather we've had, a roof that opens to the elements may not be everyone's idea of happiness, but for a view of the stars, there are few things to beat it.