More Focus – Page 114
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Are QSs fit for purpose? Your views
Readers react to our recent feature on QSs failure to price projects accurately
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Graveney School: Shining example
Tooting’s Graveney School teaches architecture to its schoolchildren, invites architects to lecture, and counts architects among its alumni
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Women in engineering: The only way is up
With women making up fewer than 10% of engineers in the UK, what can be done to encourage more to join the profession?
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Market review: Mixed signals
The construction sector is still thriving but according to economic indicators there was a fall in activity in services and manufacturing
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What to specify: Commercial
This week’s commercial products include bespoke ceiling panels for the 47 floors of The Leadenhall Building
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From the archives in 1992
Back in 1992 Building paid a visit to site of Waterloo train station’s international terminal, which opened in 1994
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Action station: Bond street tube station
A cramped site 20m underground, below a busy street is not an easy place to conduct the £320m upgrade of Bond Street tube station. Especially when the only access is via two 9m-wide shafts.
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Skills: Up to the job?
With funding of apprenticeships under threat and training providers not always churning out people with the right skills, how will we get the workers we need?
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PC Harrington: The higher they climb…
When PC Harrington Contractors collapsed into administration in May, it had debts of around £28.4m and just £900 cash in the bank. We reveal the true story of the firm’s demise
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Sustainability: Life cycle carbon management
Usual depictions of a building’s carbon life cycle fail to consider the day-to-day running of the place. Reimagining a building’s life cycle could improve its carbon efficiency
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Foresight saga
QSs are supposed to price a job accurately and de-risk procurement. But some clients are wondering what they’re paying them for
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Free webinar: Using BIM on the London Bridge project
Hear views from key players on how BIM is being used on one of the capital’s landmark infrastructure projects
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Infrastructure: Keep the engine running
Lack of investment in UK infrastructure could be a serious barrier to economic growth, but is the government prepared to pay for it?
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London Business School: A perfect match
Sheppard Robson’s partial conversion of the Westminster Register Office complex includes a glazed link building for the entrance
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Free webinar: The future of school building
Hear views from architects, contractors and QSs on the Conservative government’s school building plans and the impact of tight budgets on projects
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Cost model: Car parks
While a concept relatively unchanged over the past 50 years, car parks can still have a dramatic impact on commercial space around them
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What to specify: Cladding
This week’s cladding products include a ventilated facade, a ballistic protection system and eco-friendly cladding
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Hays international salary survey 2015
The clamour for talent in the UK is growing and salaries are rising in response
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The centre cannot hold
Our Inside Westminster series continues with a look at the government’s plans to devolve powers to mayor-led cities and regions
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A care in the world
Architype’s £9.6m overhaul of St Michael’s Hospice in Herefordshire is a nuanced balance between residential and institutional functions