All Archive Titles articles – Page 79
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Archive TitlesHere comes trouble
Protected species may be all things bright and beautiful to some, but not today’s contractors. As Stephen Cousins explains, fall foul of the wildlife laws and it’ll be less a case of animal magic than...
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Peter Fewings: Cracking an ethical code
The dictionary describes ethics as ‘a moral principle or code’. Because of this, in our world of relative tolerance, we tend to think of ethics as a very personal thing.
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Archive TitlesOlympics hit by funding storm clouds
The credit crunch has forced ministers to release another £366m from the Olympic Games contingency fund to resuscitate the stalled athletes’ village and media centre projects.
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Screen test can bring out managers’ full potential
An innovative, technology-driven site management training centre opens in Coventry in September, using virtual reality and actors to unlock those hidden management skills
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Archive TitlesMark Key: Building Control needs bold review
The Building Control sector is on the verge of major changes designed to improve the system in England and Wales, on the back of responses to the Communities and Local Government’s recent Future of Building Control consultation
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Archive TitlesBrighten your day with some blue-sky thinking
Winter getting you down? Looking out of the window too depressing?
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Three-day guide to beating the slump
The training division of ConstructionSkills has launched a course called ‘Managing through the downturn’ to equip managers and owners of construction companies with the skills for piloting a business in choppy economic waters
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Archive TitlesRadical bat project takes wing
The next generation of sustainable buildings could also offer ideal accommodation for Britain’s bat population, thanks to techniques trialled at an experimental bat house to be built at London’s Wetland Centre in Barnes
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Kier’s double awards coup
Kier Group has been named National Trainer of the Year in two out of 14 categories at the 2008 National Training Awards, organised by government body UK Skills
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CIOB considers demands of ageing population
The CIOB is launching an online survey to assess the impact of the UK’s ageing population on house building and the built environment
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Does the new construction act spell the end of the pub lunch?
The Queen’s Speech in November promised an amendment to the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996. This Act gave us compulsory stage payments in construction contracts, fallback provisions if they were not included, and invented ‘adjudication’ as a fast-track method of deciding disputes in 28 days while the job ...
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Back to basics briefing 2: Projects on hold
Many developments have been put on hold in recent months. So what should you be thinking about if the project you are working on is about to be mothballed?
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Lord O’Neill withdraws SEC Group amendments in light of Lords scandal
Specialist Engineering Contractors’ (SEC) Group president Lord O’Neill of Clackmannan has withdrawn proposed amendments to the Construction Bill after corruption allegations surfaced against four peers at the weekend.
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Weird science
Oxford University wanted a mix of labs and social spaces to encourage scientists to swap ideas. Bright sparks in the design team made it work with services integration
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Olympic winner
Atkins has been appointed as the official engineering design services provider for the London 2012 Olympics by the organising committee for the Games and the Paralympic Games
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UKGBC praises Tory pledge on home improvements
The UK Green Building Council has welcomed the Conservative party’s proposals to give every householder £6500 to spend on installing energy efficiency measures
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Archive TitlesWe've got the power
Give consumers the means and they will drastically reduce their electricity demands, says CIBSE past-president Terry Wyatt