More Focus – Page 503
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Appointments
HousebuildersJacqueline Fearon (right) has joined the board of Morrison Development Partnerships as regional director for Morrison Homes in Ireland.Laing Partnership Housing has promoted Mike Stringer to construction director. ConsultantsBuilding services consulting engineer Donald Smith, Seymour & Rooley has made the following promotions. WL Chalmers, GJ Kemble, D Jolley, S Lomas, ...
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Natural science
The Clyde's armadillo-shaped conference centre now has a slug-like Imax theatre on the opposite bank – just one of a trio of structures that form the Glasgow Science Centre.
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Blair's £19bn challenge
Labour has promised to double investment in schools, hospitals and transport in three years. The evidence suggests that this is going to be almost impossible to achieve – for government and industry.
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Colin Busby
The man who took Kier from buyout to billion-pound business in under 10 years — by playing it safe. We meet a model contractor.
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The building in front is a Toyota
Smooth on corners, metal trim, roomy interior … Toyota's new Epsom headquarters is a nice little runner. We take it for a spin.
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Coventry united
You can take on a job three times larger than your turnover, with a little help from your friends. We find there is strength in numbers.
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Five tips for a hot business plan
Play by the rulesThere is an established way of writing a business plan. It should start with an executive summary, covering all aspects of the business, followed by these points in more detail. It should also include a marketing strategy, financial forecasts for the first two years and details of ...
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State your position
As Ray O'Rourke will find out, changing the underlying vision and direction of a business is a vast and difficult undertaking fraught with risk
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Target practice
The unique shape of the Greater London Authority building has called for some very special surveying skills. We met the man providing them.
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Switched on
Nothing ruins a good interior like bad light. If only designers and lighting engineers talked more
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Cost update
Changes to the cost of materials and labour in the ventilation and air-conditioning sector is the the focus of Davis Langdon & Everest's latest up-to-the-minute guide to the changing price of construction work
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And so to Bedzed …
Bill Dunster Architects and the Peabody Trust have teamed up to offer the UK's first speculative zero-energy housing estate. This is what the public will find when it's opened tomorrow
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Can Labour tackle the skills shortage?
The New Deal for young unemployed people was one of New Labour's big ideas. Three years later, and with an argument still raging about its success, the party plans to revamp it to solve construction's recruitment crisis.
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The contenders
Meet Gus Robinson, Jane Briginshaw and Bernard Bateman, three construction professionals who have put their careers on hold to stand for election. Can they beat the heavyweight opposition?
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Art and Industry
French photographer Etienne Clément has spent the past three years documenting a Gateshead grain silo's transformation into an arts centre. Ten months before it opens, here are some of the results …
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Passing the baton
What happens when the boss retires? Panic? Backstabbing? A lack of direction? Better to plan for the succession, so there is a smooth handover …
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Survival of the fittest
Oliver Jones - To prosper in the changing market, consultants must become innovative service providers
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Five tips on setting up a website
Register your domain nameDo this as soon as possible. If you are an international company, ensure that you are registered as .com and .co.uk. The registration fee is £20 per name with www.domainnames.co.uk and www.freeparking.co.uk, to name but two. This will last two years, when it can be renewed.Get your ...