All Features articles – Page 655
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Keith Clarke: We’d rather be dull and profitable than all boats and flags
Trafalgar House was a symbol of the buccaneering 1980s, as the £3.2bn-a-year Ritz Hotels-to-contracting group seemed to grow and grow. Returns for investors shot up, too, until inflation slowed and Trafalgar House hit trouble. The party was over long before Norwegian giant Kvaerner bought the firm in 1996, but for ...
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There's the hub
Gleeds' new web service, PhotoHub, significantly enhances the client's ability to get the building it bargained for.
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Fire fighters
Lawyer Ian Hunter explains how the Employment Relations Bill will help workers who feel they have been unfairly dismissed.
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Spot the difference?
There is some confusion over their exact powers, but with £800m a year, the eight new regional development agencies could change the face of regeneration in England.
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Student demo
The University of East London's new campus is the Egan demonstration project everyone is watching. With six months to go, the race is on to prove that its innovations work.
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Cost model: Land remediation
Land remediation is becoming a growth sector as government targets for brownfield development have been increased. In this month s cost model, Davis Langdon Everest looks at new laws on contaminated land and details the cost of clean-up techniques
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Construction's devolution wishlist
The UK is on the brink of one of the most important constitutional reforms this century. What might the benefits be for the industry?
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Whipping our behinds
Contrary to common sense, the shorter the time to complete a project, the more likely it is that the team will get it done in time. This suggests some ways to organise every job
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Appointments
Contractors Andrew Rowe has been appointed commercial manager in Swallow Construction s new Northampton office. Gary Davies joins the office as project manager and Andrew Wright has become senior estimator. Bowmer & Kirkland has promoted Graham Rodgers to quantity surveying director for the central region. Richardson ...
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Wet and wild
Who says QSs are boring? David Weight may be a 50-year-old cost data manager, but he is also a champion surfer who spends every spare moment riding the waves
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Secret services
How did architect Hawkins/Brown and services engineer Atelier Ten install cabling and ducting in a listed Victorian manor house without ruining its character?
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The roaring twenties
1999's Hays Montrose/Building consultants salary guide suggests that if you're young and gifted, the chances are you're also getting richer in a hurry. Engineers and architectural technologists are included for the first time.
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Timely reminder
A recent decision on the Working Time Regulations 1998 confirms employees' right to do no more than a 48-hour week, unless they opt out.
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Some kind of refuge
Some of the fortunate who escaped the carnage of Kosovo are working on sites across London. But, being paid £2.50 an hour, many are being exploited. All names have been changed.
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Just the job
Try Construction's hard-working commercial director tells Jane Garwood about his ambitious plans to improve the business and his motorbike.
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Tender price forecast
As the Far Eastern economic crisis recedes, the outlook for construction does not look as bleak as it did six months ago. Tender prices also likely to creep up, pushed by rises in wages, materials prices and workload.
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Don't ignore the formalities
Failure to stick to the precise procedural requirements of termination clauses in commercial contracts can have dire legal consequences. What can you do to reduce the risk ?
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Contractors should be more like us
Hanson chief Andrew Dougal says contractors could learn a lot from materials firms. So, where are they going wrong?
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Blue heaven
Bluewater may be the last of the mammoth out-of-town shopping centres, but its classy interiors set new standards for smaller, town-centre malls across the UK.
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IT: Design software Model behaviour
Why is Amec modelling the building design process with the software that NASA uses to engineer spacecraft? To prioritise design tasks, and to get team members working together.