All Features articles – Page 295
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The master strategy: Can a QS be a management consultants
Davis Langdon wants to compete with McKinsey. But can it really find a place at the top table of global management consultancies? And will the rest of the quantity surveying industry follow it
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Infrastructure - The big picture
The UK infrastructure sector is expected to grow by 42% by 2014, but where is the money going to come from? Two speakers from last week’s Infrastructure Now online conference, Richard Threlfall and Steve Waltho, take a peek at the future of this potentially lucrative area
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Sustainability laid bare
Sarah Wigglesworth’s Wakefield primary school invites its pupils to learn about architecture by putting its impressive sustainability features on open display
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Designing utopia: Architects on top
Architects looking for bigger projects and a more powerful role (yes, that’s you) should be talking to clients in emerging markets where they may well be put at the top of the tree. But they can’t climb there all by themselves
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After Kieron: Campaigning for better site safety
Monday 9 August 2004 is a date Jennifer Deeney will never forget. It was when her husband Kieron died in an accident on a construction site - 13 weeks after they were married. Since then she’s been campaigning for better site safety - and a calendar of naked women ...
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Marathon effort: piling on the complex Glasgow sports arena site
How the team tackled difficult conditions on the site of the 2014 Commonwealth Games centrepiece
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APC extras: T062 - Procurement and Tendering
This is a core competency for a range of different pathways and is used by many candidates for their critical analysis
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Market overview: waste and water sectors
With regulation driving investment and resource efficiency in the waste and water sectors, Matthew Hicks and Andrew Wheeler of Davis Langdon examine how the UK’s obligations are going to be met, and what the opportunities are for consultants and contractors
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Keep Taking The Tablets
Construction folk can barely contain their excitement at how Apple’s iPad is changing the way they build - and being able to show your mum the project you’re working on is only the start
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Hanif Kara: They said ‘stay weird’, so he did
Hanif Kara has a reputation for inventiveness and eccentricity, but he has soberly steered his engineering firm through a merger with White Young Green and a recession. He tells Emily Wright about the need to make difficult decisions.
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David Penfold on Sainsbury’s waste strategy
David Penfold is a driven man: he has to cut Sainsbury’s waste to as close to zero as possible. And given the amount of activity that the store engages in, he needs good ideas and even better suppliers.
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Country focus: Germany
Overall the outlook for Germany is reasonably bright, but construction will feel the pain as the effect of the economic stimulus measures wears off
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Madrid health centre: If Gucci did factories
… they might look a little like this Madrid clinic, by local practice Estudio Entresitio
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Five best countries for water infrastructure work
Over the next 10 years, mankind will spend £500bn on water works. Chloe Stothart picks the five best countries to look for your share of it
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Dark Victory: 2010 Part L update
The new version of Part L kicks in next week, and its tough energy rules are going to make lighting a building altogether more problematic than ever before
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Hays 2010 salary guide: Do we have to fight about it?
There’s no way to sugarcoat this: contractors’ pay is down and benefits are under threat, too. Roxane McMeeken looks at the figures in the Hays 2010 salary survey and asks how employers and employees can stick together through the hard times
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Chalbury McCouat vs PG Foils: failure to choose location for arbitration
These parties agreed the dispute resolution mechanism but failed to say in which country the arbitral tribunal should be held
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First Impressions: Coca-Cola's Madrid HQ
Nottingham Trent students comment on the Puerta+Asensio Architects designed building in Spain
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The future looks rosy: Sheffield's Park Hill estate
Urban Splash’s refurb of a listed sixties council estate is turning one of the republic of South Yorkshire’s biggest problems into an aspirational address
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Domestic heat pumps: So you think this will do the job, then?
Given that the government seems bent on promoting heat pump technology to help it meet its carbon reduction targets, it’s odd that evidence for its effectiveness has been so thin on the ground. Now at last a study reveals the truth…