All Features articles – Page 619
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E-cruitment
Chrissie Chadney, human resources director of Willmott Dixon, explains how she used the web to recruit IT trainees.
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'The most energy efficient building ever'
Bennetts Associates' £22m Wessex Water headquarters is such a triumph of green design that it's better than the BRE's idea of as good as it gets. Building was given a sneak preview.
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Arup picks wobbly bridge solution
Engineer Arup has chosen its preferred solution to curb the wobble on the Millennium Bridge across the Thames. The preferred solution, to be revealed in a report next week, is understood to consist of a passive damping system mounted beneath the deck of the £18m bridge, plus secondary bracing added ...
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Now arrived from Brussels
The big red-tape machine in Brussels is still churning out directives for our benefit. But do they work? And are you affected?
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Appointments
Contractors Engineer and contractor Black & Veatch has appointed Doug Smith managing director of its European infrastructure business. He also becomes managing director of its UK business Binnie Black & Veatch.EBC Group has appointed Richard Smith area director for Reading. Nigel McArthur has been promoted to director responsible ...
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Roving union officials set to inspect any site
Contractors alarmed at Prescott-backed plan to give unions swingeing safety powers.
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All gas and gaiters
So, the fuel crisis gives contractors the chance to secure extensions of time, does it? No, it doesn't, because the truck drivers' actions do not clearly come under "relevant events".
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As bad as all that?
Prime contracting is the MOD's attempt to apply Rethinking Construction. But contractors have complained loudly that it transfers too much risk to them. So, is it going to be Egan-compliant?
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The sense of proportion
Jarndyce & Jarndyce still drags its dreary length before the Court, perennially hopeless, wrote Charles Dickens, satirising the legal system of his day. It's better now, though, as the rules on proportionality demonstrate.
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Perfect pitch
How can a roof make you sound better? The one that tops Shrewsbury School's concert venue is elliptically shaped to help the students make beautiful music.
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Wasted opportunities
Architects and developers are forming an orderly queue to put the boot into English Partnerships for its timidity, lack of leadership and inexperience which, they say, are jeopardising the urban renaissance.
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Satisfaction guarantees
A new, improved brand of performance bond is now available for project financing and promises to be a cheaper way of covering more risk particularly on private finance initiative projects.
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Tender price forecast
Continued steady growth is the order of the day, with tender prices, materials costs and new orders all continuing to rise. Many contractors are becoming increasingly selective, but the output picture is less clear.
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Conservation piece
A wood-frame roof may not sound unusual, but Buro Happold's take on it the UK's first timber gridshell at a Sussex history museum is enough to make a structural engineer whimper with fear.
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Who was to blame?
The tragic death of three children in a house fire led to a council design team being sued for negligence. The case went to the Court of Appeal, and laid down some important rules on designer liability.
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The biter bit
The RIBA really must pay attention to developers' complaints about the SFA/99 standard appointment form architects will only suffer from the preferential treatment it gives them.
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'Busier than we've ever been'
That's the view of one North-west consultant, but is the picture the same across the country? Building toured the UK to find out
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Appointments
Contractor EBC has promoted Robert Wood to area director based in Plymouth. He will be responsible for construction, building and maintenance operations. Housebuilders Grenville Homes Group has appointed Fiona Gordeno sales and marketing manager. David Hill has been promoted to group surveyor at Acorn Homes. He will ...
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Balancing act
Allowing workers a home life is the new trend, says the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development s Angela Baron.
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It's all about respect
Enthusiasm, professionalism, and a love of punk rock just the qualities you'd expect from Ian Eggers, CIOB Building Manager of the Year.