All QS articles – Page 140
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NewsWhite elephants, white elephants on parade!
These perceived monstrosities aren't always a cause for doom and gloom, argues the T&T QS
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FeaturesA game of musical jobs
This year’s Hays/Building Salary Guide shows that more and more candidates are chasing ever fewer vacancies, and we all know what the law of supply and demand says about that … Debika Ray reports
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NewsWYG asking price ‘too high’
Lawrie Haynes, chief executive of White Young Green, has hinted that last month’s takeover talks failed because the bidder for the group failed to meet his asking price
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NewsNew chair at RICS QS and construction faculty
Rider Hunt chair Michael Sullivan replaces Michael Byng at the RICS
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NewsRobinson Low Francis raises money for charity
100 staff and clients raise £2,000 for the Institute of Cancer Research at quiz night
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NewsMott MacDonald plans to expand in Reading
Engineer defies the downturn with launch of recruitment drive in Thames Valley region
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NewsDavis Langdon completes major Australian PPP scheme
Consultant completes work on 39km Eastlink motorway in Melbourne
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McBains Cooper hired on two Lambeth BSF schools
Consultant made independent certifier on £26m Elgreen school and £28m Stockwell Park
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News'Green team' announced for 2019 zero-carbon targets
UK-GBC’s list to help develop proposals for a Code for Sustainable Buildings includes RIBA president
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NewsMcAlpine completes Capita's new home for BBC Wales orchestra
Keys handed over for BBC National Orchestra of Wales's new venue at Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff
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NewsCapita Symonds in £75m JV with Welsh councils
Consultant creates new firm, Capita Glamorgan Consultancy, in region
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NewsProfit up one-third at White Young Green
Engineering consultant announces healthy results alongside new £1.6m contract win on Dubai Waterfront
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NewsRobert McAlpine sails to victory at Little Britain
Richard Jackson trophy won by contractor's superfast boat on first day of Europe's largest corporate sailing event
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FeaturesLifecycle costs: New standard for whole-life costing for buildings
A new standard has been published that allows whole-life costing for buildings to be compared for the first time. Joe Martin of the BCIS explains how it works and applies it to a notional school project
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Bouygues bags third London BSF scheme
Bouygues has won a £240m Building Schools for the Future contract in Tower Hamlets, east London.
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Dubai construction inflation hits 16% in nine months
Construction prices in Dubai have risen 15.8% in nine months, thanks to soaring materials costs and competition for suppliers.
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Planning rules waived for home extensions
BPF and RICS welcome new regulations that will remove 80,000 applications a year from the planning system
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NewsCurrie & Brown oversees work on Infinity Tower
Consultant project manager on world's tallest tower featuring a 90° twist
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FeaturesEscape to victory: how SMEs can work abroad
While many of the big consultants dodge the downturn by picking up business overseas, their smaller rivals may be feeling a little imprisoned in the UK. But it doesn’t have to be like that. Thom Gibbs unearths some escape routes that work, and some that don’t
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Downturn hits QSs as Davis Langdon makes job cuts
The impact of the credit crunch spread to new parts of the industry this week as it emerged Davis Langdon was cutting staff, while several industry sources said fellow QS Arcadis AYH was also making cuts.