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Currie & Brown drops partnership
Cost consultant becomes limited company and creates three operating divisions in attempt to move away from pure quantity surveying.
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Waterman to expand into FM
Consulting engineer Waterman Partnership is planning to offer more services at its UK and Irish offices. The group, which expanded into Ireland with the acquisition of Moylan Engineering in July, said it wanted to add extra services such as facilities and environmental management. Managing director Bob Campbell said: We ...
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'Independent' materials web site unveiled
A materials trading site that claims to be the first independent service of its kind for construction was launched this week. EasyMaterial.com, which will go live later this year, is the brainchild of a consortium of construction and IT professionals including Majid Jahanshahi, former head of construction at Neman Pulp ...
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Wasted opportunities
Architects and developers are forming an orderly queue to put the boot into English Partnerships for its timidity, lack of leadership and inexperience which, they say, are jeopardising the urban renaissance.
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It's all about respect
Enthusiasm, professionalism, and a love of punk rock just the qualities you'd expect from Ian Eggers, CIOB Building Manager of the Year.
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The wandering stadium
First person Where to put a British Olympic stadium? Tony Banks says Wembley is the only choice. But don't rule out Picketts Lock.
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Privileged positions
Second opinion Why are there so few black architects? You might as well ask why there are so few from poor backgrounds.
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'Busier than we've ever been'
That's the view of one North-west consultant, but is the picture the same across the country? Building toured the UK to find out
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Conservation piece
A wood-frame roof may not sound unusual, but Buro Happold's take on it the UK's first timber gridshell at a Sussex history museum is enough to make a structural engineer whimper with fear.
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Perfect pitch
How can a roof make you sound better? The one that tops Shrewsbury School's concert venue is elliptically shaped to help the students make beautiful music.
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Who was to blame?
The tragic death of three children in a house fire led to a council design team being sued for negligence. The case went to the Court of Appeal, and laid down some important rules on designer liability.
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The sense of proportion
Jarndyce & Jarndyce still drags its dreary length before the Court, perennially hopeless, wrote Charles Dickens, satirising the legal system of his day. It's better now, though, as the rules on proportionality demonstrate.
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Satisfaction guarantees
A new, improved brand of performance bond is now available for project financing and promises to be a cheaper way of covering more risk particularly on private finance initiative projects.
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The biter bit
The RIBA really must pay attention to developers' complaints about the SFA/99 standard appointment form architects will only suffer from the preferential treatment it gives them.
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Tender price forecast
Continued steady growth is the order of the day, with tender prices, materials costs and new orders all continuing to rise. Many contractors are becoming increasingly selective, but the output picture is less clear.
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Balancing act
Allowing workers a home life is the new trend, says the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development s Angela Baron.
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Appointments
Contractor EBC has promoted Robert Wood to area director based in Plymouth. He will be responsible for construction, building and maintenance operations. Housebuilders Grenville Homes Group has appointed Fiona Gordeno sales and marketing manager. David Hill has been promoted to group surveyor at Acorn Homes. He will ...
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Palace puts foot down over PVCu windows
Half a million listed buildings, including Buckingham Palace, threatened by energy-saving proposals.
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Banks pours scorn on Olympic stadium venue
Picketts Lock would not work; Wembley is the only place worth considering, says former sports minister.
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Norris attacks mayor Ken's Tube protest
London transport chief says Livingstone's opposition to part-privatisation will derail improvement programme.