All QS articles – Page 103
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Features
IP fraud: Could you spot the fake?
China has a reputation for counterfeit goods but now its most inventive fraudsters have a new target - consultants’ intellectual property
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EC Harris to help set up Toby Young’s school
EC Harris has won contracts to work on three of the government’s flagship free schools
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Sustainability Awards 2010: The winners and runners up
Who are the clients, contractors, designers and manufacturers leading the way in boosting green construction? Well, many of them are right here. Here we list the winners and runners-up in this year’s Sustainability Awards
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Capita Symonds: we’ll be No 1 in property management
Consultant will overtake CBRE and Jones Lang LaSalle in UK property management turnover
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EC Harris appoints new head of commercial property
Former Davis Langdon consultant is an expert in shopping centre and office development and retail investment programmes
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Two more senior figures walk out on Davis Langdon
A further two senior staff members have left Davis Langdon in the latest round of high-profile departures since the QS was bought by US engineering giant Aecom.
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Capita and DTZ sign up for free schools programme
Consultants join law firm Dickinson Dees in taking roles on first wave of controversial scheme
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Atkins revenue hit by delays in rail contracts
Profit falls by 10% as half-year results reveal 16% drop in turnover in rail sector
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Capita's Ode to Audi unveiled
Consultant works with Audi on the Gerry Judah sculpture in China
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Davis Langdon director Richard Baldwin joins Derwent
Baldwin will start as Derwent’s head of development in January 2011
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Hill consultant on Berlin skyscraper
Consultant will help manage construction of Zoofenster skyscraper
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Hill acquires US firm TCM
Acquisition strengthens consultant’s infrastructure practice in the region
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Planning fees could rise by 10%
Government proposals to allow councils to set planning fees
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Education Now: second day
Look out for our free online event for construction professionals working in education this Wednesday and Thursday
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Comment
What’s going on?
The ’resurgence in construction activity’ is proving difficult to detect in the real world. And even if growth does take off, it’ll be a long time before we feel the benefit
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Comment
Quentin Shears: Evolve or die!
For almost my entire career, we quantity surveyors have been told that we must evolve or die. This has never really bothered me, although I’d hate to think of the chain ending with me and Richard Steer.
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Features
Country focus: France
Investors remain prudent, but France is weathering the economic storm pretty well - and offering opportunities that need to be acted on now. Patrick Leniston of EC Harris reports
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Comment
Are contractors putting the squeeze on the supply chain?
In a disturbing trend subcontractors are being asked to reduce costs and even make upfront payments or risk being removed from main contractors’ supplier lists. Coercion or market reality?