All Features articles – Page 634
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Your new best friend
A good relationship with your bank manager can prove vital for the survival of your business. Accountant Smith & Williamson looks at how to keep the bank on your side.
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Appointments
ContractorsRay Shine and Andrew Wyllie have been appointed directors of the construction division at Taylor Woodrow. David White has become finance director. Tony Bickerstaff, Roger Blundell, Neil Johnson, Tim Peach, Graham Quinion, Norman Reed and Gerald Slack have been made divisional directors. Richard Dean has been made managing director of ...
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Don’t buy Beta
In the future, everyone in the building industry will use one data management system. Trouble is, no one knows which it will be. HBG’s Graham Cash hopes he’s backed the winner.
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Because we’re worth it
Sharks, parasites, bloodsuckers … whatever your favourite term for lawyers, the fact is, you need us. The fees may be high, but that’s only because our skills get your buildings built when nobody else can.
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Adjudication’s added value
Arguments about whether there is a contract can be more expensive to resolve than the argument about whatever the argument’s about. But adjudication is set to change all that.
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Undercutting is over
The new best-value regime promises to put creativity and innovation back into the local authority tendering process, but, as commentators point out, it may come as a shock to the established system.
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Get on top
The Institute of Management’s Mark Hastings explains how small businesses can manage regulation.
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He travels the fastest …
Working for yourself can have great rewards – but also great risks. You’re the PR department as well as the workforce and managing director, and independence sometimes means isolation.
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Energetic exchange
Speakers at Brufma’s Building Energy Efficiency conference earlier this month called for a “revolution” in the industry’s thinking to meet the forthcoming radical changes to Part L.
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Dodging two-stage pitfalls
Egan’s model of open-plan tendering can be undermined by contractors careful to cover their backs. But trouble can be avoided by getting into contracts early, or by building in some controlled competition.
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Blair heads attractions at record Building Awards
1300-strong audience watches PM’s first speech on construction at Grosvenor House Hotel.
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Appointments
ContractorBirmingham-based RW Buxton has appointed John Scott-Lee business development director.HousebuildersWestbury Group has appointed group operations director Nigel Fee managing director of Westbury Homes. Deputy group finance director Colin Cole has been made Westbury Homes’ deputy managing director. Paul Heaton has been appointed land manager for the Yorkshire region of ...
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There once was an ugly duckling …
Provincial towns are being given much-needed makeovers to enable them to compete with their more fashionable neighbours.
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Morley’s cricket school makes Edgbaston debut
David Morley and Bryant Priest Newman’s £2.4m “Lord’s II” school opens for Warwickshire.
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Keep out of harm’s way
Cutting corners on health and safety is not good business practice. It turns you into a criminal. And as the law shifts to recognise corporate liability, you can expect to be treated like one.
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‘They just quietly beaver away, changing the face of the world’
Designing buildings is one thing, but working out where to place them to maximise their use requires in-depth analysis of public spaces. Which is where a little-known firm called Space Syntax comes in.
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Specialist subcontractor of the year
The top firms in the award sponsored by The Facilities Business worked on some of last year's most prestigious projects, including the Millennium Dome and Bluewater.
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Surveying practice of the year
In this Hays Montrose-sponsored category, the firms have fully embraced the Egan agenda, concentrating on client satisfaction, introducing benchmarking and upping partnering deals.
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Ooh,Missis!
Michael Wilford's brash, blowsy arts centre is more fat ladies than matchstick men. But this disjointed Salford landmark could well become as popular with the public.
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Multidisciplinary practice of the year
Repeat business and a truly diverse skills base caught the eyes of the judges in this category, which was sponsored by materials group Marshalls.