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Just the job
The IT manager and former travel rep tells Elaine Knutt why you can change direction without getting in a spin.
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Back in boom
Last year, the market was about to fall off a cliff. This year, orders are up, house prices are up, and Wimpey is starting a yuppie housing scheme it mothballed last year. Too good to be true?
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Life after Rogers
When architect Pierre Botschi was made redundant after 14 years with Richard Rogers, he found the going tough – until he met interiors specialist Jack Pringle and moved into hotels.
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Social circuit
PowerGen's naturally ventilated HQ, built in 1995, promised to promote staff interaction. Five years on, is it living up to expectations?
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‘I’ve got 30 minutes to shift your belief stucture’
Cluster group meetings are the Movement for Innovation’s tool for sharing new ideas and shifting entrenched attitudes, but can gatherings of Egan evangelists change the industry? 精东影视 went to one meeting to find out.
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Get on the bus
Training is a key ingredient of any IT overhaul. But how best to do this when staff are scattered throughout Britain? Easy. Go to them.
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Tale of the expected
A recent case is worth looking at precisely because it is nothing unusual for construction, just a bog standard tale of things going pear-shaped on site – and in court.
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The legal 500
The construction law sector is getting bigger, tougher and more lucrative. This year's league table of the best regarded firms covers the UK on a regional basis, and includes areas of special interest, such as private finance initiative work.
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Trying cases
Requirements to use "best endeavours" and "reasonable endeavours" appear in many construction contracts, but do they mean you can sue somebody if you think they're not trying hard enough?
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How do you like it so far?
Client care research is a tool used by an increasing number of professional services firms to keep their clients loyal, and guarantee continued income.
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Cost model: Indoor arenas
The growing popularity of indoor sports such as ice hockey and basketball has led to a boom in new indoor arenas in many UK cities. QS Davis Langdon & Everest examines the cost implications and specifications of indoor arenas
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Appointments
ContractorRichard Lumby has been appointed managing director of Crown House Engineering, the building services arm of Carillion.Housebuilders Trevor Thompson, formerly Yorkshire regional director for Wimpey Homes, has been appointed managing director of retirement housebuilder McCarthy & Stone’s new North-east division.Redrow Homes has promoted Rob Slocombe to sales director in the ...
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Smashing the cartels
The Competition Act, which comes into force next March, is intended to tackle construction conspiracy theories and discourage firms from price-fixing. The penalties are high for those that don’t comply.
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Andrew Wolstenholme
Six months after ditching half a dozen of its framework contractors and consultants, can BAA's construction director regain the trust of the industry?
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International salary guide
Fancy a stint working abroad? Find out what the pay and perks are in nine countries across Europe and the Far East in this year’s Hays Montrose/精东影视 international salary guide.
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Speak easy
Voice recognition systems have come a long way in the past five years. Now, surveyor Ridge and Partners is using the technology to stay one step ahead of the competition.
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Essential reading
Three crucial summer reads reviewed: the first on construction’s eternal triangle, the second a “tour de force” on procurement law, and a third that makes the law of damages easy to understand.
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The PFI’s poisoned chalice
Due diligence requirements in PFI contracts have created a lucrative role for consultants: checking. The only problem is that if anything you checked goes wrong, you may be liable for 100% of the damages.
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ADR: a costly alternative?
New rules encourage negotiation as an alternative to litigation to solve contractual disputes, but uncertainty about recovering costs is hampering take-up of it.
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A game of two halves
Specification writers have a dual role on design-and-build projects: to help the bidders understand what the client wants and to ensure that its needs are met within cost and time constraints.