All QS articles – Page 108
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CommentThe RICS: Are we being served?
Open mike: QSs have little in common with estate agents yet we share the same professional body. We have to break free and form an organisation that truly represents us
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NewsThe use of force: Building information modelling
Building information modelling may make everything better, but most firms don’t want to use it. But that might change now the government plans to make it compulsory on all public projects. Stephen Kennett reports
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Mouchel issues profit warning
Mouchel has warned that its profit before tax and exceptional items will drop to £30.5m from £40m for the year ended 31 July 2010.
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NewsSo what’s left after all the cuts?
All sectors suffer but housing and regeneration fare worst with cuts of 75%
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CommentRICS on the Spending Review
RICS director of external affairs comments on the controversial government announcement
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NewsDerby College’s Roundhouse wins RICS project of the year
This £48m vocational skills college provides facilities for 2500 students and has brought regeneration to the East Midlands
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NewsCyril Sweett order book grows 30%
Acqusition of Widness and Padghams helps boost consultants’ growth overseas
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NewsHill wins APWA award for Californian project
Consultant’s work for South Bonnyview Road Widening project named 2010 Project of the Year
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DJ Deloitte sets up QS arm
The former head of Davis Langdon’s commercial sector surveying team will head a new cost consultancy division at Drivers Jonas Deloitte (DJD)
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NewsMcClay Library wins RICS award
Shepley Bulfinch-designed library at Queen’s University in Belfast wins sustainability award
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NewsRICS QS boss fears ‘irrelevancy’
Warning that global drive could make organisation irrelevant to some members
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CommentQuentin Shears: Thinking inside the box
I’ve never been entirely sure what management consultancy is. My only hope was that nobody else knew either
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NewsNoho Square picks team and targets Google as tenant
Consultants on £200m former Candy & Candy project in Fitzrovia include Aecom and EC Harris
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The project manager: A hero of our times
Don’t be fooled by the thick glasses and the side parting - that project manager in the corner might just be the person who saves your bacon …
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NewsT&T shooter wins bronze in Delhi
Assistant cost manager Julia Lydall wins Commonwealth Games medal for England in Womens’ pistol shooting
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FeaturesThe QS apprentice
The trainee QS who joined consultant Cyril Sweett via CSTT discusses life as a apprentice
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FeaturesTop 250 Consultants 2010: The Hungry Years
The year’s tables of the UK biggest consultants show that many of them have too many mouths to feed, which means they will face painful choices in the next 12 months. Roxane McMeeken looks at how they got into this position. To accompany the tables, which are will , we ...
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NewsTop 250: consultants on wafer-thin margins
More than one in 10 consultants are surviving on margins of less than 3%, according to Building’s 2010 survey of the top 250 consultants
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FeaturesInterview with WSP's Paul Dollin: Cheer leader
Paul Dollin, WSP’s enthusiastic new UK boss, has no intention of ’waking up American’. So the former Atkins man intends to grow the UK business by pushing even harder into infrastructure, particularly rail and nuclear. Just don’t expect to see any more Shards going up
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CommentDon't kid yourself
Our Top 250 consultants league table shows the harsh realities gripping the construction sector, and there’s no sign of improvement yet