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Market forecast: Back on track
In this new series,We report that tender prices are on the up – including London, where work is getting back on track
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FeaturesHot topic: Offices
This quarter, a look at the slow but steady resurgence of the London office market – plus what’s happening around the regions
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NewsEngineers merge to take on the big boys
Engineering consultants NRM and Jan Bobrowski and Partners this week merged to improve their performance in a tough market
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NewsSharewatch: Adapt or die
Much to the displeasure of housebuilders, speculation about a housing crash has preoccupied the City and the media in recent weeks.
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NewsCan Jarvis pull off the industry’s latest Houdini act?
Chairman Steven Norris hopes wriggle out of trouble by buying time to reinvent debt-laden contractor
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CommentHow our house fell down
British domestic design in the 20th century is a story of architectural vandalism committed by the very rich and eagerly emulated by the middle class
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FeaturesDesperately seeking surveyors
With the shortage of talented QSs now at its most acute, practices are turning to more and more imaginative methods of recruitment.
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FeaturesUntapped talent
ow one quantity surveyor discovered a source of skilled staff in a most unusual place … Carol Greed of GF Partnership tells the firm’s story
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FeaturesSo you think it’s boring, huh?
Quantity surveyors get to say ‘I was part of that’ about some of the world’s most high-profile construction projects. And that’s not all that makes the job interesting, as three QSs told us
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FeaturesCost effective
oanne Knightley is combining work and study with a distance learning BSc in quantity surveying. Here she tells us how she gets it to add up …
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FeaturesTalking balls with the minister
Phil Hope is charge of chivvying the industry into becoming energy efficient, sustainable and security conscious, while simultaneously championing IT and keeping the ODPM green. So a metaphor rather suggests itself, as we point out.
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FeaturesMarks Barfield cafe: One small, skinny mollusc please
Marks Barfield’s latest scheme is an invertebrate cafe that has attached itself to Birmingham’s Bullring centre – where it is providing weary shoppers with a shell-like retreat
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CommentBlind eyes and bloody kids
Contractors have to be on their guard against potential defects or dangers even though they aren’t covered in the contract – as these cases illustrate
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CommentTackle it with Eezyjudge®
Only 28 days to decide 276 final account quarrels on 17,000 pieces of paper? Don’t despair. Just apply a little of this 100%-proof, no-nonsense dispute decider
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No room for horse traders
Once upon a time, you could end a dispute with a global settlement and trot off to your insurer to ask for compensation. It is no longer that simple