More Focus – Page 515
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Practice makes perfect
The development of software program Vircon could help busy sites avert time-wasting construction problems before work even starts.
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Cost model update, January 2001
Eight years after the first cost model was published, Davis Langdon & Everest provides a companion to 17 building types featured in the series. Providing up-to-date costs for each type, this third cost model update includes the publication date of the original model and identifies current cost drivers.
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Big Brother
Advice for managers on the sensitive area of monitoring employees' personal emails and their use of the internet.
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Appointments
ContractorsTony Auger has been appointed pre-contracts director of Essex-based Rose Builders.GMI Construction Group, based in Leeds, has appointed Paul Whitaker (right) commercial director. Simon Bannister has been promoted to design office manager.HousebuildersJohn Leary, previously with Mansell, has joined housebuilder Lovell as commercial director in the divisional head office in Tamworth, ...
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Dial M for mixed-use at Hitchcock studio
The Shoreditch set of classic film The Lady Vanishes is to reappear as a multipurpose live–work development.
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Wembley: cash, contracts and confrontation
The team building England's new National Stadium has been bamboozled by political U-turns, impeded by contract wrangles and shaken by bad publicity. Can Wembley stage a comeback?
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Construction's £75m noise bill
Proposals out today to beef up Part E of the Building Regulations for new homes may make the misery of noisy neighbours a thing of the past – but could cost builders thousands of pounds a flat.
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The heavyweight champions
A new superbreed of finance directors is taking over at the largest contractors. They are fighting to turn the industry into a City darling.
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The new space age
Last November's urban white paper promises to expand the market for landscaping schemes in Britain's towns and cities. Here's how consultants and contractors can enter the public space race.
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Inside information
How can e-construction be made to work? Charles Botsford, former Treasury adviser and a director of the Building Information Warehouse portal, may well have the answer.
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Canada Square Park, London E14
Products - Landscaping solutions from exterior lighting to wastewater management, plus The spec on a dishy park in Canary Wharf.
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Making the rules
Laying down a disciplinary policy, and implementing it properly, ensures that everyone is treated fairly.
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Appointments
Contractors Midlands construction company Fifehead, the holding company of Buxton, has appointed Huw Rogers group IT manager.Birse Construction has appointed Dicky Richards, previously with Christiani & Nielsen, marketing director for the firm's south of England civil engineering division.Consultants Andrew Carter has been appointed partner in cost consultant Nigel Rose ...
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Walsall's bathing beauty
Hodder Associates' Darlaston swimming pool looks more like a luxury health club than municipal baths.
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E-commerce crashes to earth
Last year, the industry was poised to make a giant leap onto the internet, and all the big players set projects in motion. But now it seems construction took a wrong turn in cyberspace …
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The lifeguard
With next month's government safety summit looming, all eyes are trained on the construction industry. So how does Suzannah Thursfield, director of health and safety at the Construction Confederation, intend to respond?
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We need a new plan
The new Human Rights Act has thrown a spanner into the planning system. Where on earth do we go from here?
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Defective vision
Manchester's Homes for Change was billed as a model for the urban renaissance. Four years later its image has been tarnished by defects.