All QS articles – Page 125
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Green Shoots
Each week ɫTV will ask an expert to analyse the latest evidence of green shoots, and see if it stands up to scrutiny. This week we have Simon Rawlinson, partner in Davis Langdon, on housing
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Currie & Brown robbed of Mexican police station haul
A programme to build 80 police stations in Mexico, that was being managed by Currie & Brown, is to be re-tendered as the government tries to drive down costs
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Cyril Sweett rules out appeal
Cyril Sweett will not appeal against the decision to leave it off an £800m consultants framework
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Cyril Sweett in talks over £30bn of Iraqi reconstruction
Plan includes rebuilding Baghdad, Najaf and Karbala, and adding multibillion-pound city extensions
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Bouygues fined £160,000 for worker death
Contractor pleaded guilty to breaching regulations after man was killed by a reversing vehicle
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EC Harris lands Trafalgar Square green scheme
GLA appoints consultant as project manager and CDM coordinator on energy saving project
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Capita hires former Highways Agency chief executive
Consultant strengthens focus on intelligent transport and heavy infrastructure markets
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Capita buys urban design consultant AMA
Consultant acquires Andrew Martin Associates' three offices for an undisclosed sum
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Davis Langdon to take plunge in Saudi Arabia
Davis Langdon is to open an office in Saudi Arabia to boost market share in the country
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'Revolutionary' QS James Nisbet dies, aged 89
Industry figures gathered in Leatherhead, Surrey, on Monday for the funeral of James Nisbet, the “revolutionary” quantity surveyor who invented cost planning
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Shock as Cyril Sweett and Gleeds miss £800m deal
Top QSs refuse to rule out appealing OGC decision to leave them off project management framework
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Bouygyes UK fined £18,000 after carpenter's 5m fall
HSE slates contractor's 'poorly supervised and inadequately trained system of harnessing'
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Firms named for £800m government project management framework
Mace, Capita Symonds, Faithful + Gould, Mott MacDonald and Rider Levett Bucknall are among those picked but Gleeds and Cyril Sweett excluded
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James Nisbet dies aged 89
Founder of James Nisbet & Partners developed the elemental cost plan as a QS
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Comment
Thinking caps: Employer's agents
When a QS acts as contract administrator, certifier, project manager and employer’s agent, it all ends up like a game of pass the hat. But some principles always apply
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Capita scoops £3m Crossrail job
Capita Symonds has won a £3m contract to design the tunnel entrance for Crossrail where it goes underground in the Royal Oak area of west London.
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Capita appointed on giant wheel scheme
Firm will provide health and safety consultancy for Great City Attractions
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ChandlerKBS project manager on Belfast Airport
Consultant is cost and project manage on £10m internal refurbishment scheme
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Construction workloads falling more slowly, reports RICS
Surveyors report housing workloads falling fastest, but overall rate of decline is slowing