All Features articles – Page 556
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Staff bail out High-Point Rendel
Directors and management step in to save troubled Birmingham consultant by taking pay delays and offering loans.
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FeaturesSpace station
In the planet's most barren landscape, a highly-trained crew of scientists are on a single mission: to track inter-stellar activity using the world's largest telescope. But they need somewhere to live …
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Lead times: Piling
Lead times are fairly balanced in the final quarter of the year, with an equal number of sectors lengthening and shortening deliveries, according to Mace. And overleaf, Gardiner & Theobald throws the spotlight on piling …
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Just the job
Simon Wallace, Turner & Townsend's head of management consultancy, talks about his new role and why the next wave of consultants are likely to come from construction
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FeaturesWhat's going on, John?
One minute Prescott is slamming housebuilders for the shortage of new homes, the next he's hitting key developments with planning demands so tough that the schemes screech to a halt. No wonder the industry is a little dazed and confused …
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FeaturesTo be Frank
Realising an unwieldy Frank Gehry design means learning to work the Gehry way, as the team on his Dundee cancer therapy centre quickly found out. And although the architect's first UK building is surprisingly small, the difficulties it caused were anything but …
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Five lessons in entrepreneurship
A good idea is not enough – although it's a good start. Ingenuity and hard work are just as important as a good idea. Having said that, a simple idea can reap rich rewards. A good idea also requires persistence. If you lose heart in your idea, you won't have ...
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Europe here we come
Thinking of expanding into Europe? The benefits may well outweigh the risks
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Bowmer & Kirkland surges ahead to steal the top spot
Midlands firm continues to astound as it beats off Sir Robert McAlpine – which hangs onto yearly pole position.
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Foreign affairs
With European Union enlargement only months away and more clients dipping into international markets, what better time for consultants to set up shop abroad? Victoria Madine considers the different approaches that UK organisations take to forge overseas links.
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Jeffries draws up shortlist for hot seat at Atkins
Main board expected to discuss possible applicants for post of chief executive at meeting this week.
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O'Rourke: We need no replacement for Andy White
Laing O’Rourke chairman and chief executive Ray O’Rourke says he does not intend to appoint a successor to former chief operating officer Andy White.O’Rourke said the group did not need another chief operating officer because the integration of Laing had been so successful. “It’s not an issue. We are one ...
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Wolstenholme gets top job at Heathrow's Terminal 5
Former group construction director at BAA becomes T5 supremo after departure of Haste to CrossRail.
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Walk-on parts
Flooring finishes may not have a starring role in a client's brief but getting it right is critical to occupiers' enjoyment of a completed building. Peter Claridge, associate at Davis Langdon Schumann Smith, offers advice on how to specify the perfect underfoot performer
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Local lowdown
In the latest of his series on regional job markets, Robert Smith of recruitment consultant Hays Montrose finds London Docklands and the City booming
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On solid ground
Figures just in for September complete the picture for the third quarter of 2002, and they show a market that is holding firm. Construction Forecasting and Research presents the facts
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Focus on the regions
How are activity levels and order books changing around the UK? The figures give the balance of firms reporting an increase compared with those reporting a decrease
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FeaturesThe equaliser
Ras Patel, himself the victim of a racial attack, is in charge of ridding construction of racism. He tells Tom Broughton that the best way forward is to persuade companies that racial equality makes good business sense.