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Market Watch - Design and build
Design & build and PFI are influencing the way buildings are procured. BSJ looks at how the industry has felt their impact.
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Cash boost for students to help promote industry links
The government is to give a massive cash boost to help engineering students develop their potential and forge industry links.
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Big spender
GlaxoSmithKline's decision to pay for innovation had a big impact on how its new headquarters was delivered on time by construction manager Mace.
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New energy figures show big variations in usage levels
The Department of Trade and Industry's (DTI) Energy trends and Quarterly energy prices publications for the second quarter of 2001 have been released, providing an analysis of the year on year changes.Indigenous production of primary fuels was a reported 3·5% lower in the second quarter of 2001 compared to the ...
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Beware glare
Glare resulting from reflective glazing and metal cladding on buildings can be a serious danger. But help is at hand in a recently developed method to predict the likelihood of it occurring.
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Quicker, safer, better!
Four innovations designed to raise standards and increase efficiency on site
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Five leading industry bodies join forces to drive forward building services best practice initiative
The Building Services Best Practice Programme (BSBPP) has become an initiative between BSRIA, CIBSE, ECA, FETA and HVCA.
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Balfour Kilpatrick must pay sacked electricians
Site conditions prompted mass walk-off in April. A tribunal has backed them up
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Energy minister demands greater industry backing for wind power
Minister for energy, Brian Wilson, has called for more industry participation in promoting wind power as a competitive form of energy.
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Council awards services designs
The Engineering Council's prestigious Environment Award for Engineers 2001 has acknowledged the work of three building services companies.
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Amec contract is Lion's share
Amec has won an £8 million contract to redevelop Lion Plaza in London.
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Constructing alliances
Partnering in Europe — incentive, based alliance for projectsBob ScottThomas Telford Ltd£45Pages: 137This is a practical guide for creating and implementing project-specific alliances, primarily for the private-sector clients. However, client organisations such as the Ministry of Defence, National Health Service and public/private partnerships generally will find this handbook very useful ...
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Where will it all end?
The issue of personal liability is a cause of much concern among professionals. Just how worried should you be about offering advice?
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Air apparent?
Unwanted air infiltration through facades can result in unpredictable internal air conditions. This can stop services performing to their maximum efficiency. So how does it happen, and most importantly, how can we stop it?
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Aecom snaps up Oscar Faber to further its worldwide expansion programme
Oscar Faber becomes Faber Maunsell as it joins forces with US giant to attack international markets.
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UK to adopt open-door policy for skilled foreign workers
Construction managers may have to deal with even more non-English speaking workers starting this January if Home Secretary David Blunkett gets his way
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Thinking local, acting global
As the construction industry braces itself for the possibility of recession, is an apparent trend in company mergers good news or even more bad news for engineering?
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Laing sells construction arm for £1 and loses £75 million on fatal lab project
Subcontractor O'Rourke buys the most famous name in construction for a pittance. It's a clear example of everything that's wrong with risky business, says a former employee
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Webwatch
Almost all of us are members of professional organisations or institutions. So what information and services do they offer us via their websites?