All QS articles – Page 122
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FeaturesTop 250 Consultants 2009: 'As bad as it gets'
That was one consultant’s view of the year when new orders fell 25% and 20,000 QSs, engineers, architects and surveyors received P45s. Roxane McMeeken looks at what went wrong, and what hope there is for the year to come, while Martin Hewes presents this year’s tables
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NewsRICS publishes guidance for development managers
Development Management is aimed at project management surveyors
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NewsT&T opts for CCM for Hemel Hempstead hospital
Consultant use CCM to improve its contract management administration at the West Hertfordshire NHS Trust
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CommentThe G3 summit: How much trouble are we in and how do we get out?
At this point in the business cycle we have at least some idea of what the recession has done to consultants, and how they can regroup and fight back. Three QS leaders comment
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NewsRICS: Tender prices will fall until 2011
Forecast says prices will not return to pre recession levels for at least five years
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NewsBrown pledges £1bn for growing businesses
Prime minister stresses importance of green economy as he announces plan to set up national investment corporation
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NewsCapita consultant on £11m Scottish Ballet HQ
Consultant cost and project manager on building in Glasgow
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NewsRLB project manages Hyde Park drinking fountain
The Freeman Family Fountain is the first of its kind in the 30 years
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Former QS and developer launch The Consult Group
Bespoke Leeds consultant seeks to recruit senior professionals for expansion
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CommentThe fall guys: Richard Steer on the challenges ahead
So we tumbled off the cliff. But, to look on the bright side, we survived. The task now is to identify what challenges we are likely to face on the long climb back up
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NewsRLB is QS on £3.3m UCL scheme
Cost consultant hired on student union development at the London university
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FeaturesPhilip Youell interview: ‘We read the market right’
No new major schemes in the UK or Europe, a global recession and the collapse of business in Dubai. So why is EC Harris so bullish? Chief executive Philip Youell explains how his re-engineering of the (former) cost consultant has been vindicated
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NewsMinisters plan spending cuts
Chancellor holds series of cabinet meetings to identify which programmes to target
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NewsEC Harris posts healthy profit
Consultant EC Harris has unveiled a full-year pre-tax profit of £41.1m, down slightly on the previous year’s £41.4m
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FeaturesGetting through Christmas: Hays contractors' salary survey 2009
There may be the odd sign of spring in some sectors, but the labour market is stuck in the bleak midwinter – as this year’s contractors’ salary guide makes clear
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NewsMitie triumphant again as 127 race at Littler Britain
Glorious conditions aid downsized industry sailing event, as it raises £20,000 for charity
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NewsCommercial property returns to capital growth
IPD index shows first rise for UK market since June 2007
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NewsBoxing champ Joe Calzaghe opens Welsh bridge
Capita project manages and designs £3.2m Pont Calzaghe Bridge as part of Newbridge's regeneration