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Five tips for a hot business plan
Play by the rulesThere is an established way of writing a business plan. It should start with an executive summary, covering all aspects of the business, followed by these points in more detail. It should also include a marketing strategy, financial forecasts for the first two years and details of ...
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State your position
As Ray O'Rourke will find out, changing the underlying vision and direction of a business is a vast and difficult undertaking fraught with risk
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Target practice
The unique shape of the Greater London Authority building has called for some very special surveying skills. We met the man providing them.
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Switched on
Nothing ruins a good interior like bad light. If only designers and lighting engineers talked more
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Cost update
Changes to the cost of materials and labour in the ventilation and air-conditioning sector is the the focus of Davis Langdon & Everest's latest up-to-the-minute guide to the changing price of construction work
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And so to Bedzed …
Bill Dunster Architects and the Peabody Trust have teamed up to offer the UK's first speculative zero-energy housing estate. This is what the public will find when it's opened tomorrow
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Can Labour tackle the skills shortage?
The New Deal for young unemployed people was one of New Labour's big ideas. Three years later, and with an argument still raging about its success, the party plans to revamp it to solve construction's recruitment crisis.
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The contenders
Meet Gus Robinson, Jane Briginshaw and Bernard Bateman, three construction professionals who have put their careers on hold to stand for election. Can they beat the heavyweight opposition?
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Art and Industry
French photographer Etienne Cl茅ment has spent the past three years documenting a Gateshead grain silo's transformation into an arts centre. Ten months before it opens, here are some of the results …
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Passing the baton
What happens when the boss retires? Panic? Backstabbing? A lack of direction? Better to plan for the succession, so there is a smooth handover …
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Survival of the fittest
Oliver Jones聽- To prosper in the changing market, consultants must become innovative service providers
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Five tips on setting up a website
Register your domain nameDo this as soon as possible. If you are an international company, ensure that you are registered as .com and .co.uk. The registration fee is 拢20 per name with www.domainnames.co.uk and www.freeparking.co.uk, to name but two. This will last two years, when it can be renewed.Get your ...
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End of the pier show
Isolated more than a mile out in the Thames estuary, relying on deliveries by ship once a fortnight, blasted by relentless gale-force winds, a team of workers is struggling to erect a lifeboat station.
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Material world
How can a project be truly sustainable? Look beyond the client to the community
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On the cards
we look at how to become the proud owner of a CSCS card – and why workers may not be able to get jobs on site without one.
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Appointments
ContractorsAndrew Bradley has joined Morgan Lovell, the specialist workplace fit-out division of Morgan Sindall, as financial director in the London office.Fitzpatrick has promoted Graham Hall to civil engineering estimating director; Ray Hussey becomes building estimating director.ConsultantsConsulting engineer White Young Green has appointed David Blake associate director in the mechanical and ...
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Cost model: Co-location centres
The co-location centre market is set for strong long-term growth. Davis Langdon & Everest and specialist M&E cost consultant Mott Green and Wall explain the high level of electrical and mechanical services required and provide a cost breakdown for a model development
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To Hull and back
Two years after John Prescott took Lord Rogers on a tour of a run-down estate in Hull, Tom Broughton visited the city to find out if things had changed. He found an urban renaissance barely able to keep pace with the disillusionment of residents.