All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1322
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Employment: Wage negotiations
The Low Pay Commission is due to present its recommendations to government this month concerning the minimum wage, following meetings with industry representatives such as the Business Services Association and the Cleaning and Support Services Association.In its submission, the CSSA told the commission that implementation of the minimum wage had ...
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Email from Ecuador
I've survived a sixth of my planned stay in Ecuador, with only minor burns, cuts, insect bites and blisters to show for it. While I'm not altogether happy about the way my work is developing, this was easily my most productive month so far.The highlight of my month's work was ...
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Energy production takes a dip
Figures released by the Department of Trade and Industry reveal that energy production in 2000 was 2.5% lower than in 1999.
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Reform fever grips the Engineering Council
The Engineering Council will be replaced this year by a new body, the Engineering and Technology Board (ETB).
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Examples of infrared control
Easier installation, lower labour costs and no unsightly cabling or conduit. Could infrared control of engineering services be the way forward?
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Contract management:Team leader
As the focal point for the team, the contract manager must possess an array of business, procurement and communications skills. But, as David Pearson of DJP Consultancy writes, the manager must also display determination and mental toughness to achieve effective rather than efficient contracting. It is also paramount that the ...
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What clients want
The Facilities Business one-day conference, entitled What Leading In-house Facilities Managers Expect from their Suppliers, brought together contractors and the UK's largest facilities buyers at the CBI conference centre in London.
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Climate change predictions take a turn for the worse
Global warming scientists are painting an even grimmer picture of the Earth in 100 years: ridden with disease, riven by famine and engulfed by floods.
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Total change
Office moves always require immaculate planning, yet when the company involved undergoes two mergers in just one year, imagination and military precision are crucial. Ian Cundell follows the relocation of oil company TotalFinaElf to its new UK headquarters in Watford.
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Shell Centre: the masterplan
At the time of its completion in 1962, the Shell Centre was the first air conditioned office building in Europe. It took no less than ten years to design and build the mammoth project, designed to house the 6000 employees responsible for running Shell's oil companies worldwide.At the peak of ...
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Careers: Paul Crilly
Paul Crilly is a consultant with Gardiner & Theobald Facilities Management, working on a wide range of contracts including PFI projects
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Company results: Capita and Serco see profits surging
Outsourcing giants Capita Group and Serco issued strong results at the end of February, while predicting significant growth in the market.
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High capacity chilled ceilings
Can chilled ceilings really cope with cooling capacities in excess of 100 W/m2? System tests carried out by BSRIA might provide the answer.
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Building facilities
The Facilities Business kicks off a brand new series on creating a facilities operation from scratch. Written by former chair of the British Institute of Facilities Management, Derek Paxman, and his colleagues from the Centre for Facilities Consultancy, the series will outline the building blocks required to set up an ...
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Project briefs
The ExCel centre and the printing press of the Scottish Parliament feature in this month's round-up of heating and ventilation installations
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Everybody breathe in now...
Squeezing more workers into less space might save money but does it make business sense? Santa Raymond, workspace consultant and co-organiser of May's Lean Office conference, says we need team leaders who can advise the board to 'squeeze here, keep the fat there'
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Pressure builds to ban retentions
Specialist contractors are stepping up their campaign to ban the use of retentions.
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Back-up power supplies
This month the cost and research departments of Mott Green & Wall, and Davis Langdon & Everest examine alternative methods of providing back-up power supplies to building occupiers.
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Health & Safety: Asbestosis blow
The High Court has ruled against awarding compensation to the widow of a man who died after contracting an asbestos-related illness because it could not be proved at which of two employers he was working when he contracted the illness.The ruling could have implications for many of the thousands of ...
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Meet the ancestor
Few people know it, but the Shell Centre pioneered engineering systems that many today still regard as cutting-edge. So why did we forget many of them the moment the project was finished?