All QS articles – Page 139
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FeaturesGo for the burn: Bouygues UK’s daily workout
Warming up before work used to mean eating your bacon buttie while it was still hot. But now, in an effort to cut down site injuries, Bouygues UK has stepped things up a gear.
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NewsQS firms to axe hundreds of staff in bid to save cash
UK’s biggest quantity surveyors plan to cut staff as drop in private sector work causes fees to plunge
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NewsAlan Sugar’s firm sues surveyors
Sir Alan Sugar’s property company is suing chartered surveyor Wilks Head & Eve for negligence.
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Workers name the industry’s 75 best employers
Survey of 30,000 staff shows which firms offer the most benefits and the best company culture
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NewsMott MacDonald appointed to Indian corridor development plan
Firm will undertake feasibility study for Chennai-Bangalore Industrial Corridor of Excellence
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FeaturesTop 250 Consultants 2008: How to survive the downturn
You don’t have to be Charles Darwin to know that survival is about adapting to your circumstances better than your rivals. Roxane McMeeken looks at how firms have changed their strategies since our last consultants survey, when the market was booming
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NewsDavis Langdon helps deliver first two polyclinics for London
Consultant will work on Heart of Hounslow Centre of Health and Gracefield Gardens in Lambeth
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NewsCapita Symonds hires director of engineering and technology
Consultant also appoints new senior acoustic consultant
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NewsEC Harris appoints new partner
New recruit leads communities and local government sector in the Midlands
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NewsCluttons appoints head of project and building consultancy
Consultant also promotes current head to managing partner and appoints new head of cost and management
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NewsMcBains Cooper introduces new service division
Project assessment and recovery service is in response to the credit crunch
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Cyril Sweett releases half-year trading results
AIM-listed consultant says commercial and retail sectors have 'softened' but public sector and international work remain strong
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NewsMouchel upbeat despite fall in profit
Consulting and services group says public sector focus has left it 'relatively untouched' by economic turmoil
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Gleeds enters US top 10 project management league
Survey by Engineering News Record puts Gleeds in ninth place based on fee income
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FeaturesStadium building: has football's bubble burst?
Despite the credit crunch putting the boot in to the market, there are still chances going begging in the stadium sector – it’s just a little harder to score …
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NewsWest End investment market in trouble, says Cluttons
Consultant's report finds transactions down 50% in the first quarter of 2008
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NewsCredit crunch: reasons to be fearful
The crisis in the world’s financial system has left the construction industry facing its toughest challenges for a generation: salaries are falling, job cuts are predicted to reach 35,000 in the next two years in housebuilding alone, and all of a sudden nobody is talking about sustainability or partnering. Here, ...
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NewsDownturn sparks Gulf exodus for UK consultants
Ambitious engineers and QSs join housebuilding specialists in search for Middle Eastern work
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Consultants named for £750m government shortlist
Twenty consultants have been shortlisted for a place on a £750m government framework
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NewsUAE puts up £7.34bn to avoid property crash
Gulf state follows in footsteps of US and Europe in setting up emergency lending facility