More Focus – Page 557
-
Features
Top 75 Quantity Surveyors
The top 10 quantity surveyors have increased their staff by 7% in the past year, with Davis Langdon & Everest slugging it out with Currie & Brown for the title of biggest recruiter: both have increased their numbers by almost 100. Across the rest of the chart, staff increases are ...
-
Features
Top 75 building surveyors
This year's building surveyors league table is augmented by 37 new entries, most of them small practices with fewer than 15 staff. The firms at the top of the table are familiar names, however, with Chesterton overtaking WS Atkins to reach number one. On paper, WS Atkins appears to have ...
-
Features
Top 100 fee earners
This year's questionnaire for the 1999 consultants survey included a new section: performance ratios. Practices were asked to calculate their fee-earning capacity by dividing their annual fee income by the number of chartered staff.Taking the top 250 consultants across all disciplines, 100 firms have been ranked in order of the ...
-
Features
Tender price forecast
A modest growth in workload meant tender prices remained stable in the third quarter of 1999, but output is expected to grow by as much as 8% over the next two years.
-
Features
Low cunning
The team building a Foster-designed HQ in central London had the chance to cut cost and disruption by reusing the foundations in the original basement. But as it was 30 years old, engineer Yolles had some clever rejigging to do to make the plan work.
-
Features
The root pile man
Technical innovations have given ground engineering specialist Fondedile an enviable reputation, but, as managing director Ian McKenzie says, that doesn’t protect it from the abuses of an industry that still finds it difficult to work with itself.
-
Features
Bargain basement
A revolutionary Swedish system of prefabricated housebuilding promises to slash construction costs — starting with an easy-to-assemble domestic basement.
-
Features
The IT revolution moves up a gear
The managers of IT systems across the construction industry met at the Construction Industry Computing Association conference to discuss their successes – and outline a vision for the future.
-
Features
Winner takes all (maybe)
Whose side are you on – the one that says the loser in an adjudication should pay the winner’s costs, or the other that says each party should pay their own costs, never mind who wins?
-
Features
The third party way
For all the predictable griping, and the tendency of the producers of standard forms to deny its application, the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Bill brings opportunities for all sectors of the industry.
-
Features
It’s a score draw now
The Macob hearing showed that an adjudicator’s ruling was enforceable in the short term, even if it was procedurally dodgy. But a new case suggests there is more to it than that.
-
Features
Clause for thought
A new short-form contract has been added to the suite of New Engineering Contract documents. How well should it work?
-
Features
Cost model: Audiovisual systems
In this mini cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest and Mott Green & Wall examine the costs of audiovisual systems, which are appearing everywhere in the workplace, from offices to in-house gyms, and across the leisure industry in pubs, restaurants and football grounds
-
Features
More, please
Don't wait to be offered a pay rise. Take the initiative and ask – but use this seven-step guide to pick the right moment.
-
Features
Appointments
ContractorsMidas Construction has promoted Steve Russell to technical services director and Nalin Seneviratne to area manager in Plymouth and south Devon.Andrew Friend, formerly with Macquarie Bank, has joined Laing as managing director of UK investment.Building, civil engineering and utility contractor Lowbury Construction has appointed Richard Bryce-Smith to head its marketing ...
-
Features
Chris Wilkinson & James Eyre
Chris Wilkinson Architects has been one of the practices that set the tone for Britain's visual identity over the past 10 years. Now the man behind it is sharing the limelight with the rest of his team – above all partner, James Eyre.
-
Features
Is this what Rogers means?
Mixed-use. Community. Environment. Brownfield. Clay parrots. Manchester’s Northern Quarter is set to turn Lord Rogers’ taskforce report into colourful commercial reality.
-
Features
Nobody should die in an earthquake
Seismic engineer Ted Piepenbrock wants an end to earthquake fatalities caused by collapse. Now, he has helped design a quake-proof system for a 100m high convention centre in Japan
-
Features
Hackattack
Clients want construction firms to do business electronically, but also securely. For some of the biggest, such as the Ministry of Defence, it is a non-negotiable requirement. So, what defences should you erect?
-
Features
Watch out, cameras about
Next time you are dashing about in your company car, keep an eye on your speed dial. If you get caught going over the limit, higher insurance premiums could be the least of your worries.