Consultants Focus – Page 10

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    New world orders: Construction’s latest global hotspots

    2009-11-13T00:00:00Z

    A startling report is forecasting a big shift in the world demand for construction by 2020. So dig out the guide books and maps for Nigeria, India and eastern Europe

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    Top 250 Consultants 2009: 'As bad as it gets'

    2009-10-09T00:00:00Z

    That was one consultant’s view of the year when new orders fell 25% and 20,000 QSs, engineers, architects and surveyors received P45s. Roxane McMeeken looks at what went wrong, and what hope there is for the year to come, while Martin Hewes presents this year’s tables

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    Philip Youell interview: ‘We read the market right’

    2009-09-19T00:00:00Z

    No new major schemes in the UK or Europe, a global recession and the collapse of business in Dubai. So why is EC Harris so bullish? Chief executive Philip Youell explains how his re-engineering of the (former) cost consultant has been vindicated

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    Getting through Christmas: Hays contractors' salary survey 2009

    2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

    There may be the odd sign of spring in some sectors, but the labour market is stuck in the bleak midwinter – as this year’s contractors’ salary guide makes clear

  • Bourneville college in Birmingham was one of just 12 further education schemes to get the go-ahead last week. Other colleges are being forced to look for new ways of funding their projects
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    Schools funding: adding up for politicians

    2009-09-04T00:00:00Z

    Once the UK’s borrowing hits 12% of GDP, how much money will be available to build schools? Well, that depends on how the next government does its sums

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    The law won: QSs join the legal profession

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    The legal profession is one of the few still prospering, which is why so many QSs are clamouring to enter it. But how easy is it to make the switch?

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    Turner & Townsend's unseasonal success: Vince Clancy interview

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    There aren’t many companies that are hiring senior staff, opening offices and preparing themselves for the stock market. But then there aren’t many chief executives like Turner & Townsend’s all-conquering Vince Clancy

  • Would you like to contribute to the skyline of Toronto?
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    International salary guide 2009: Where in the world is the best pay?

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    As the recession turns sought-after consultants into international jobseekers, where can you go for some relief? Roxane McMeeken met one victim of the cuts, and Hays Construction tallied average pay packets from across the globe

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    The big swoop: Impact of US consultants on UK firms

    2009-05-15T00:00:00Z

    US consultants are huge, they’re rich and they’re looking to cut themselves a big slice of the UK market, but what does that mean for UK firms …

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    The 2009 Consultants' Salary Guide

    2009-04-24T00:00:00Z

    As you must have suspected, this year’s results are pretty grim, but many people are still making the best of a bad job – after all, forging designer labels and distilling your own turnip vodka can be fun... Roxane McMeeken does the commentary, Hays Construction & Property handles the data

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    Make a wish: can Saudi Arabia make your dreams come true?

    2009-04-09T00:00:00Z

    So, you want hundreds of billions of pounds of government-backed construction projects, and maybe a 30% pay rise too? Well, there’s one country that has untold riches beyond your wildest dreams. Thomas Lane braced himself and booked a flight

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    After the gold rush: Getting paid in Dubai

    2009-03-27T00:00:00Z

    It is claimed that the average contractor is owed £50m, while some consultants’ fees are being slashed in half. Roxane McMeeken finds out just how bad Dubai’s payment problems have become

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    Habla Espanol? Opening up the Latin American market

    2009-03-27T00:00:00Z

    Last week we revealed the lucrative opportunities on offer in Mexico, but such gold can be found all over Latin America, where bullish governments spend billions on infrastructure. Katie Puckett presents a rough guide to working in the region – complete with language tips

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    Just landed: Philip Bray goes to Dubai

    2009-03-24T16:12:00Z

    Who in their right mind would go to Dubai amid the current turmoil? Well Philip Bray for one. He reckons there is still excellent business to be done in the troubled emirate. Bray joined UK project management and cost consultant, Millbridge in 2008 to develop the business throughout the Middle ...

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    Paul Hamer: saving White Young Green

    2009-03-13T00:00:00Z

    After swallowing 18 companies in five years, the consulting engineer was bloated with debt and stranded in rapidly receding markets. Now its new boss, Paul Hamer, has to mount a rescue. Tom Bill asks him how he’ll do it …

  • Bridging the gap: Alan Pemberton (left) and the man he’ll be taking over from later this month
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    I've started so I'll finish: David Tuffin of Tuffin Ferraby Taylor

    2009-03-06T00:00:00Z

    David Tuffin started Tuffin Ferraby Taylor when people wore loon pants and voluntarily listened to the Bay City Rollers. Several recessions later, he’s handing it over to a new generation. But isn’t that going to be a bit tricky right now?

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    Serbia: Construction's new hope?

    2009-02-27T00:00:00Z

    Alright, it hasn’t got the shops, the offices, the hotels or the gleaming infrastructure – but then, that’s precisely why the so-called ‘Balkan Tiger’ is such a find for UK construction

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    Construction recruitment: Don’t panic!

    2009-02-20T00:00:00Z

    It really is possible to find a job in construction – if you’ve got specialist skills, are prepared to be flexible on salary and are willing to relocate

  • The Afghan desert is a long way from Cyril Sweett’s London office, but for Captain Louise Greenhalgh it’s just another day staying one step ahead of local hazards
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    'Bomb disposal is very like risk management'

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    The Afghan desert is a long way from Cyril Sweett’s London office, but for Captain Louise Greenhalgh it’s just another day staying one step ahead of local hazards

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    Mace's Stephen Pycroft: 'I don't do interviews'

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    Thirty years in construction, 16 at Mace – more than four of them as chief executive – but Stephen Pycroft has never given an interview… until now. Emily Wright talks to him about sale rumours and why he’s not sunning himself in the Bahamas