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On with the show
Presentations needn't be an ordeal. The Institute of Personnel and Development's Angela Baron offers some tips on dazzling your audience.
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Appointments
ContractorsStourbridge-based MJC Construction has appointed Simon Jones contracts manager. David Hollick has been appointed special works manager and Tony Shaw becomes chief estimator.Stansell has appointed Bill Badham area director for Bristol.Stan Bakowski has been appointed director of Frederick J French.Housebuilders John Tutte has been promoted to group managing director at ...
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Real world architecture
Architecture is self-obsessed and self-indulgent when it needs to be part of commercial and technical reality.
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Off the shelf
Sending CAD designs via e-mail and the Internet is hardly new,but now Sainsbury's is insisting its consultants use its new system rather than the post or couriers or suffer the consequences.
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Try a little tenderness
Clients need care and attention. What's more, they are more likely than ever before to decide that they can live without you. So, how do you retain their affections?
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Whole-life cost model
Last week, Building published a call centre cost model; this week, Citex compares the whole-life capital and occupancy costs of two Midlands call centres and a model building. With 400 000 Britons now working in this sector and a predicted growth rate of 40% a year, there are valuable lessons ...
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Child labour
Lawyer Ian Hunter explains how the new Employment Relations Bill will affect maternity and paternity rights.
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Appointments
Contractors Building and civil engineering contractor Dean & Dyball has promoted Adrian Dyball to managing director of construction. Barry Seeley and Peter Walton have been promoted to directors of Dover-based Barwick Construction. Alfred McAlpine Construction has made Andrew Nash business development manager for civil ...
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Mace expands with French connection
Construction manager creates footing for long-term partnership with major development consultant Scic.
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Amey lays off 34 facilities management staff
FM group makes redundancies in bid to streamline service to local authority clients
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Revenue decision to boost industry profit
A decision by the Inland Revenue not to appeal in two landmark tax cases should leave the construction industry millions of pounds better off.The decision means that firms will now be able to reduce taxable profit by taking into account some anticipated losses.Firms have, in the past, been able ...
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Runners line up for £7bn Tube part-privatisation
Eight consortia apply to prequalify for London Underground mega-projects.
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HBG favourite for £46m Gateshead gallery
Contractor set to beat Laing and Sir Robert McAlpine to conversion of quayside flour mill into arts centre.
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Prescott unveils £1bn-plus spending spree
Deputy prime minister John Prescott last week awarded £1bn to 160 projects around the UK through the government’s Single Regeneration Budget.The money will go to a wide range of schemes, and for the first time will be administered by Regional Development Agencies.There is assistance for projects throughout the UK, ...
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Industry wins three-month tax scheme concession
But experts are not convinced that photocopied documents and opt-out plans will solve problem.
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Laing lands £110m Basingstoke revamp
Laing has won a £110m contract from developer Grosvenor Estates to transform leisure and retail facilities in the centre of Basingstoke.The project will see Laing building Festival Place, a 44 000 m2 new shopping complex and an 8500 m2 leisure area incorporating a multiscreen cinema.Laing will also refurbish The Walks, ...
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Raynsford lays down law on industry improvement
Construction minister tells Movement for Innovation conference how to do better at implementing Egan
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Egan projects highlight targets
Partnering, the need for early involvement of subcontractors and continuity of work were the three themes that were highlighted repeatedly in the seminars on Egan demonstration projects.The seminars were split into four sessions: product development, project implementation, production of components and partnering in the supply chain.At the Partnering in the ...
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Clients keen on indicators
A series of major clients and industry firms are keen to use the key performance indicators established in the wake of the Egan report.The KPIs, a tool through which construction performance can be measured to help continuous improvement in the industry, are popular with different client types, contractors and consultants, ...
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Bovis chief encourages innovation support clubs
John Anderson urges contractors to help spread Movement for Innovation initiatives.