All ɫTV articles in 27 November 2009 – Page 5
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Tories seek to end payments for PFI planning risk
Potential changes to procurement model spark concerns over planning authority independence
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WYG encouraged
Consulting engineer White Young Green has said there are “some encouraging signs” in a trading update
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Comment
Are you drowning?
Are you suspicious that one of your commercial partners is on the brink of insolvency? Here are a few signs that it’s about to happen – and how to protect yourself
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New horizons: Dissing + Weitling's Vietnamese town
Engineering consultant Buro Happold has been appointed to masterplan Gia Lam New Town in Hanoi province, Vietnam
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Comment
Steel yourselves: John Sorrell on school design
Just as we’ve finally started to build well-designed schools, the knives are out to cut back on quality. We have to resist those who threaten to wield them
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Comment
Crazy money
Richard Steer’s point that low bids are giving the QS industry a bad name is absolutely on the mark (13 November, page 34) – and if we’re not careful, what we’ll see eventually is death by a thousand cuts. However, the larger consultancy firms such as the big six or ...
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Features
Cost model: Land remediation
Plenty of sites will need land remediation when the housing market recovers, and the slow market at the moment provides an opportunity to use innovative, sustainable techniques. Duncan Sanders and Derek Vernon of Davis Langdon take a look at the commercial drivers
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Comment
A contractor's survival guide
How many times have you read about contractors losing money, or going bust, as the result of a few ‘problem contracts’? So shouldn’t they do more to plan for them?
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CIOB threatens to expel cover-pricing firms
Professional body to launch own investigation into 10 member firms found guilty in OFT inquiry
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Campaign mounts to keep RICS part of CIC
Pressure was mounting on the RICS this week to reverse its plan to leave the Construction Industry Council
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Comment
Cutting bureaucracy: Smash the system!
The spirit of adventure will thrive again, but only if we free it from the soul-crushing bureaucracy of planning rules, building regs, safety protocols and sustainability
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Comment
ɫTV buys a pint … for Watkins Gray International
Get a predominantly male crowd of people together in a pub, not all of whom know each other, and chances are they’ll end up talking about sport. In this case: motor racing
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Capita Symonds rallies bridge engineers for flood checks
Consultant issues ‘national call’ for staff to carry out safety checks on 1,800 bridges in Cumbria
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T&T latest to join bolt-on buying boom
Turner & Townsend and Capita Symonds prepare to make a string of acquisitions
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Features
Braving the cold: Mike Farley on coaxing Persimmon back to health
Mike Farley had barely got his feet under the desk as Persimmon chief executive when the recession struck, leaving the company with a plummeting share price and soaring debts. Here he tells Tom Bill about his plans to reverse those processes
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Atkins commits to Middle East as turnover remains steady
Atkins has reiterated its long-term intention to stay in the Middle East, despite the region’s current liquidity problems
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The factory: Haworth Tompkins' Royal College of Arts building
The painters are in at the industrial Sackler ɫTV – and they’re inspired
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Comment
Return of the arbitrator
The 100-day form of arbitration has received a resurgence of interest in recent times, and rightly so, as it has several advantages over adjudication
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City gives new Kier boss seal of approval
Appointment of Paul Sheffield to succeed John Dodds not seen as ‘major departure’ for contractor