More news – Page 2383
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NewsHSE issues nuclear alert
Watchdog warns £20bn programme faces delay unless reactor designers improve performance
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NewsDavis Langdon to lose partners in 64-job cutback
Also, G&T has closed Exeter and Swindon offices and Cyril Sweett has merged Birmingham and Leamington Spa operations and made several redundancies
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CommentAfter the goldrush
The head of one British consultant in Dubai confessed that he will be using Indian QSs in the near future, many of whom will operate from the Subcontinent
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NewsManslaughter rules could ‘signal end’ for small firms
New guidelines recommend fining guilty firms a minimum of £500,000, irrespective of size
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NewsCBI tells government: construction vital to UK plc
Business leaders make plea for capital spending as building sector drags down national GDP
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NewsFormer RICS boss faces expulsion from QS body
Michael Byng, former head of QS faculty, to fight allegations of dishonesty over non-payment of fees
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FeaturesSliding glass facade with PV
Austrian firm M-systems has launched the EV3000, an aluminium framed glass sliding panel designed to provide solar shading on facades and which also incorporates thin film photovoltaics for power generation
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NewsBuilding and NES launch commercial EPC index
Initiative aims to tackle problem that 75% of commercial builds are illegally marketed without an EPC
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NewsHospitals face 'huge penalties' under carbon scheme
Carbon Reduction Commitment could heavily penalise public bodies that have little scope for further energy savings
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NewsMott MacDonald to advise Indonesian tsunami relief fund
Firm to provide technical help in channelling $50m funds to boost struggling areas
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NewsMetropolitan Workshop wins Norway dock job
Collaboration with Arkitektkontoret Vardaal-Lunde produces winning design for new conference centre and hotel at Bergen
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NewsSisk wins £15m of work on Hounslow leisure centres
Contractor is appointed to refurbish and extend three centres in the area
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FeaturesThe five hundred million pound woman: Colette O'Shea
Last week, we looked at what life on site was like for the industry’s female minority. This week, Emily Wright heads to the boardroom to meet Land Securities’ Colette O’Shea, the most powerful woman in London development
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FeaturesBeware of killer clients: the insurance threat to fit-out providers
Fit-out firms are suddenly finding that their clients are making them take out insurance to cover the entire job – and as they may not be able to, they’re risking commercial death
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Comment
Bingham bites back
The Office of Fair Trading’s response to my column (23 October, page 30) condemns the OFT
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Comment
Get over it
What is all the fuss about over these OFT fines (Hays fumes 2 October, page 10)?
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Comment
She who laughs first …
I always find it interesting to read articles about women in construction (23 October, page 36)
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Comment
With friends like these …
Gillian Birkby (16 October, page 50) hits the nail on the head in berating public bodies for their unreasonably onerous appointment terms