All Features articles – Page 641
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East Anglia: Good, but not great
Workloads in Cambridge and Norwich are good, but not spectacular. The market is healthy enough for contractor Fitzpatrick to set up an office to service Cambridge and Peterborough, and consultants in Cambridge reckon that workload is about 5% higher than last year. Stephen Bugg, a partner in Davis Langdon & ...
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All change
As chair of the RICS' Junior Organisation, Jacqueline Fearon personifies the young, dynamic image that the body is trying to promote in its Agenda for Change.
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Sunny intervals in South Wales …
The Welsh market is split between the potential boom of the South and the continued stultifying of mid-Wales. In the Welsh capital, a combination of the Cardiff Bay makeover, including the Wales Millennium Centre, the National Assembly and the Millennium Stadium has fuelled an explosion of hotels, bars and restaurants. ...
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… and in the South-west
Bristol continues to attract the majority of developments in the South-west. The hiccup for Crest Nicholson’s £200m mixed-use Harbourside development, refused planning permission and being appealed, is counteracted by the success of the £300m Temple Quay regeneration scheme in the city, which is well under way. Fitzroy Robinson has designed ...
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Where are tomorrow’s leaders?
The City is beginning to worry that, as contracting’s top bosses edge closer to retirement, the industry is not doing enough to find and groom their successors.
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Send in the specialists
Cluster groups, co-operation and making the most of specialist subcontractors’ expertise has earned the team building an MOD sports centre spectacular cost and time savings.
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Right, for wrong reasons
An adjudicator thought settling a “repudiation of contract” dispute was beyond his jurisdiction. He was wrong, but the court enforced his decision for another reason…
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How ya doing?
Hays Montrose’s Robert Smith tells bosses how to organise the perfect employee appraisal.
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Who would you give the job to?
Is the double-breasted suit still the only way to impress clients? To find out, Building gave this industry professional three different outfits and asked major clients to take their pick.
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Shattered confidence
The falling glass at Stratford Jubilee Line station is just the latest in a line of glazing failures that have rattled the public. What is causing these problems, and how can the industry convince clients and users that glass is safe?
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A three-ring circus
Subcontractors remember: main contractors are within their rights to request a tripartite arbitration between themselves, you and the employer, but if they delay, you can start your own with them.
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Empty life of a very fine chair
Introducing fitness-for-purpose obligations into contracts in place of reasonable-skill-and-care clauses would remove uncertainty and reduce disputes, but perhaps we’d have to pay more for peace of mind.
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Bob Emmerson
Ove Arup’s chairman designate has the job of preserving the Arup ethos while the firm changes into a heterogenous multinational. Here’s how he will do it.
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Back to school
Mansell wants to be a global player, so it is sending its chief operating officer, Philip Cleaver, to Harvard University where he will rub shoulders with executives from around the world.
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Appointments
ContractorsTry Construction has promoted Jeff Adams to managing director of the Midlands region.Alfred McAlpine Civil Engineering has appointed Sarah Vincent business development manager.Warings Construction has appointed Mike Deavin operations manager of its Heathrow-based airport team. Yazdi Shroff joins the team as contracts manager and Mark Warrington has been made health ...
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Added extras
The team building Foster’s fencing mask – also known as the GLA headquarters – has a new weapon to fight inefficiency: a secure extranet that holds documents and drawings.
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What’s the meaning of this?
Collateral warranties are highly controversial, ferociously contested and poorly understood. This is the first article in a series intended to tackle the third of these problems.
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The player
The Institute of Management's Karen Dale explains how to become an expert office politician and stay ahead of the game.
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Without a safety net
If you don't write a net contribution clause into your contract, you may find yourself paying all the damages for a breach that others are also responsible for. And it's not just insolvency that can land you in it …