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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 ...
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What's mine is yours
Directors and partners should be quick to sort out who owns intellectual property rights – or they risk finding that the firm's interests outweigh their claims
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On keeping stumm
Bias isn't about what you really think or feel; it's about the impression you create. So think what you want, but for heaven's sake don't do it out loud.
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Invasion of the bodysnatchers
In the horrific world of name borrowing, a management contractor has to watch helplessly as its identity is taken by a works contractor and used to pursue its employer.
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Not bad, but not perfect
Jeffrey Brown presents the results of the Lee Crowder adjudication survey. It found that too many main contractors are dissatisfied with the dispute resolution process …
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End of the pier show
Isolated more than a mile out in the Thames estuary, relying on deliveries by ship once a fortnight, blasted by relentless gale-force winds, a team of workers is struggling to erect a lifeboat station.
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Material world
How can a project be truly sustainable? Look beyond the client to the community
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On the cards
we look at how to become the proud owner of a CSCS card – and why workers may not be able to get jobs on site without one.
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Appointments
ContractorsAndrew Bradley has joined Morgan Lovell, the specialist workplace fit-out division of Morgan Sindall, as financial director in the London office.Fitzpatrick has promoted Graham Hall to civil engineering estimating director; Ray Hussey becomes building estimating director.ConsultantsConsulting engineer White Young Green has appointed David Blake associate director in the mechanical and ...
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Cost model: Co-location centres
The co-location centre market is set for strong long-term growth. Davis Langdon & Everest and specialist M&E cost consultant Mott Green and Wall explain the high level of electrical and mechanical services required and provide a cost breakdown for a model development
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Labour to target New Deal at construction skills crisis
Construction is one of five sectors singled out for training overhaul to raise output of workers.
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Industry heads back Times letter
THREE construction industry bosses have put their names to a letter from business leaders backing Labour, published in The Times on Monday.
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Wembley design team suspended by WNSL
Funding crisis and government rethink on project leaves design team and contractor Multiplex in limbo.
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'We'll spend £19bn in next three years,' says Raynsford
Another push needed on Egan says construction minister, but Labour will not ban retention.
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£550m Dublin scheme in doubt
The future of a £550m PFI national sports complex near Dublin is in doubt after the Irish government bowed to pressure for an independent audit of the project.
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Livingstone warns EH on Heron Tower
London mayor Ken Livingstone has called on English Heritage to rethink its opposition to Heron Tower in the City.
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Row erupts over failed Luton lottery project
£25m-turnover local contractor threatens council with judicial review over £4m arts centre.