All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1330
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Judgement day
Adjudication is emerging as a way to resolve differences that arise in facilities management contracts – particularly in PFI projects – writes Len Bunton, of Bunton Consulting
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FMx offers managers global control system
New software offers messaging, database and intranet functions
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Contracting for engineering and construction projects
Contracting for engineering and construction projects£60.00ISBN 0-566-08282-9The fifth edition of Contracting for engineering and construction projects has been published by Gower.Aimed at purchasing and contracts staff, engineers, quantity surveyors, project managers and legal advisers, it has been brought up-to-date to reflect changes in case law and legislation, in particular the ...
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Concierge crazy
With today's hefty workloads, how are staff expected to do their dry cleaning, book their theatre tickets or service their car? Some employers have already realised the benefits of easing the pressure by offering a concierge service and, as Sarah Jane North reports, facilities management companies are looking to get ...
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Top of the class
Greenwich Millennium Village School could be the first of a new breed of mechanically ventilated schools. How did the design team manage to overcome restrictive government guidance and beat the capital budgets laid down by the local authority?
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Server City
The explosion in Internet traffic has led to a huge increase in demand for buildings to house the accompanying hardware. The Financial Times printworks in London's Docklands has been refurbished for this very purpose. What does it teach us?
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Chesterton goes Dutch with Desenco link-up
Projects already lined up for Chesterton's new Dutch partnership
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Ringing in change
In this special report, three projects are highlighted, each presenting a different challenge. Mid Kent Water had to install cable in a listed building; the Army needed a global system of videoconferencing for court martials; and Tower Hamlets needed a complete telecoms overhaul while keeping business disruption to a minimum.
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Data centres
The Facilities Business has commissioned a series of facility performance profiles from Johnson Controls that interrogate the relationship between cost and quality of a facility's management. Here, Barry Varcoe and Alan Green, draw on Johnson Controls' database of over 50 million m2 of performance data and consider the data centre ...
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Facilities to gain from schools' cash injection
£4 billion government funds will stimulate PPP and contracted work
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Careers - CathyFreestone
Cathy Freestone is head of office services at the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Belgrave Square, London SW1
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Latest buyouts and mergers
The building services manufacturing industry has witnessed a spate of mergers.
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Indoor and Built Environment: mechanical ventilation in buildings
Indoor and Built Environment: mechanical ventilation in buildingsKarger Publisherskarger@karger.chMechanical Ventilation in Buildings is a theme issue of Indoor and Built Environment, the journal of the International Society of the Built Environment.The publication includes a review on the developments in strategies used for natural and mechanical ventilation in China as well ...
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Countdown to BT property handover
BT will announce next month a preferred bidder to take on its £2bn property portfolio. Current frontrunner is said to be Land Securities.
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BSJ index out soon on disk
The 2000 update to the BSRIA electronic index to Building Services Journal will be published in February.
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Legionella briefing
the New HSE regulations for managing legionella in the workplace puts the emphasis on the control of legionella, rather than just on minimising risks. It also insists that a competent assessor carry out checks.
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Bosses reshuffle
It has been all change at the top for suppliers to the facilities sector in recent weeks.
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BSIA voices security bill doubts
Working party set up to campaign for tighter licensing and inspection measures in new security bill
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Big names sign up for TheFB event
Three more big names have joined the line-up of facilities and estates directors speaking at a conference organised by The Facilities Business later this month
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Big Business
As PFI projects get larger, size is everything for those wanting a piece of the action – just one reason behind the £74.8 million purchase of Building & Property by contractor turned services firm Tilbury Douglas last year. Chairman Mike Bottjer tells The Facilities Business how the acquisition cements the ...