All QS articles – Page 93
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New markets boost Cyril Sweett revenue by 11%
Encouraging results are last to be released under the group’s current name
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Comment
Consultant strategy: Super size me
WSP is latest consultant is latest to consider growth by consolidation following profit warning
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Features
Specialist costs: M&E
Legislative, economic and technological changes are presenting both challenges and opportunities to M&E firms. Erland Rendall of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company, reports
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Consultant growth strategies: Eyes on the prize
If the top UK consultants want to stay at the top they need fast ways to grow, and that’s not easy in a stagnant market. So the hunt is on to find suitable mergers, acquisitions and overseas ventures. ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø reports on the latest manoeuvres in the sector
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F+G is project manager on Renzo Piano’s Athens project
Consultant and British Embassy celebrate start of project and highlight construction opportunities in Greece
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Capita consultant on Cumbrian Roman visitor centre
Firm is lead consultant and architect on the £10.7m Roman Maryport Development
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RICS outline guide to accelerating construction
Report provides advice on how projects can be delivered ahead of schedule
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Cost model: Global manufacturing
With manufacturing in many countries showing strong signs of recovery, the development of new manufacturing facilities is required to keep pace with contemporary process and technologies, say Mike Wilcock and Miles Jenkins of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company
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Comment
We’re not a bunch of incompetents
UK managers have been in the firing line of late, but the Olympics will be a great opportunity to show off our skills - and building information modelling could help us do that
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Features
Rise of the machines: BIM and QSs
With building information modelling now carrying out many traditional QS functions, are quantity surveyors and their slide rules about to meet a sticky end? Or can man and machine live (and work) happily alongside each other?
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BIM project to show savings
A commercial building will be developed using BIM from start to finish, with the hope of showing how 50% savings can be made
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EC Harris in merger talks ahead of flotation
Chief executive confirms company has held talks with ’a number’ of firms amid pressure to expand
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RLF plans to expand in the Med and Africa
Consultant will grow its business from its Malta base in the Mediterranean and Africa
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Comment
We’ve done it all before
Paul Morrell’s construction strategy? Looks familiar to our QS blogger
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EC Harris hires new sustainability head
Nick Hayes joins from BRE to expand consultant’s green work
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Rider Levett Bucknall scoops £5bn Saudi Arabian job
Cost consultant’s initial three-year deal is latest for its business in the country
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Top firms nab 23% more work in May
Public sector boosts contractors’ workload, but performance is still worse than same period last year