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The man for the job
A big man with big ideas, new RIBA president Marco Goldschmied is going to give architecture the shake-up it needs.
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Going up in our estimation
They used to be QSs' poor relations, but estimators are the big winners in this year's Hays Montrose/Building contractors' salary guide.
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Out with the old, in with the new
The design for Procession House had to answer both the developers' need for speed and the planners' conservation worries. It did so through the unusual approach of cladding the building twice.
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The bluffer's guide to object technology
Intimidated at parties by your peers' ability to converse freely about object specification and interoperability? Perhaps you're going to the wrong parties. But don't panic – this clear and simple guide will have even the technophobes cornering each other for in-depth chats.
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Top 250 consultants
Building's league table of Britain's top architects, engineers and surveyors is back, with a new section on the highest fee earners. Where do you come?
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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How to come a cropper
The Civil Procedure Rules make new demands on expert witnesses. Here's the story of one expert who didn't seem to appreciate that – and what Lord Woolf had to say about it.
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Why should banks be secure?
What can you do when the firm that's just taken £10k of goods from you goes belly-up? The answer is: not much – after the bank's receiver has made sure the bank gets its cash back. That may be about to change.
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Scottish internationals
Other than at Murrayfield, a contest in Scotland may be subject to the UN's regime of international commercial arbitration – which could actually make it easier.
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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.
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Bairstow to leave troubled Schal
Schal managing director leaves for parent Carillion following discontent among leading clients.
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Arup Associates' Burland to go solo
The design director of multidisciplinary firm Arup Associates, James Burland, will leave the firm at the end of this year.Burland, 45, will continue as an independent consultant to the practice after 1 January 2000.Since becoming design director in 1992, Burland oversaw the growth of the firm from 50 to 120 ...
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Row brews over material to be used in Albert Hall
French manufacturer’s terracotta blocks fail strength tests on £60m lottery refurbishment.
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Railtrack won’t be kicked off Tube contract
London Underground has dismissed speculation that it has called off talks with Railtrack over a sub–surface Tube line contract in the wake of the Paddington disaster.A spokesman said: “There are no plans to look elsewhere. We have not put the discussions on hold, they are still ongoing.” He said LU ...
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Manchester police plans £47m, 18-station PFI deal
Greater Manchester Police submits plans to Treasury for first ever bundled PFI police station deal.
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Housing insurer calls for workmanship KPI
Housing Association Property Mutual is pressing the government to adopt key performance indicators in workmanship.Paul Wornell of HAPM's technical audit unit is sending a copy of the housing association insurer's new workmanship checklists for scrutiny by DETR.Wornell said: "While there is a common agenda in recent government initiatives to reduce ...