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Getting Twitchy

We’ve had some reports on twitter in the last 24 hours about a percieved increase in approaches from recruitment agencies to architects in the UK. For example,
@Waybeesy, an architect in London posted “@SuButcher @the_architect trends: been receiving one too many calls from recruitment agencies -recession in construction over u reckon?”
My thoughts are:
It is the middle [...]

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A Design & Build Conversation

What follows is a conversation which took place on twitter between the evening of May 17th and the morning of May 18th 2009.
I’ve reproduced it here because it illustrates some of the massive potential that twitter has as a networking tool. It happens to be about the procurement method of Design & Build.
The Protagonists
Firstly note [...]

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What’s that big Green Button?

I love doing things online. I’m very practical about it; the main reason is that it allows me to spend time with my family instead of getting up at some godawful hour and eating a poor breakfast in a dank hotel with a load of suits.
So any opportunity to network online is ok by me. [...]

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Find UK Construction People on Twitter

Many interesting people in the UK Construction industry are now joining twitter but it is sometimes difficult to find them.

You can go to wefollow.com “a User Powered Twitter Directory” and search for some terms there (the service was set up by the creators of twitter – people can add themselves under three categories at a [...]

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What I know about ‘Small’ Wind Turbines

Last year one of Barefoot & Gilles Architects’ new buildings became the first in Suffolk to have a Gazelle Wind Turbine, to comply with Ipswich Borough Council’s new 10% Renewables Policy. The building is the New 30,000 sft Headquarters for MSC (UK) Ltd, the agents of the world’s second largest shipping line, Mediterranean Shipping Company. [...]

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An Excellent Construction

I’m delighted to see that Constructing Excellence has launched a blog, where the team will be able to post opinion pieces and engage direct online with the key issues facing the UK Construction Industry in these difficult times, not least the difficult issue of delivering Value.
First up is Don Ward, CEO with a post on [...]

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Where is the business case for Sustainability?

Three unconnected events have got me thinking.
Constructing Excellence recently launched their Essex Club in Chelmsford and I attended. The stated objective of CE is to demonstrate that long term, integrated collaborative working in the UK construction industry is better than going lowest-cost, a route that many contractors currently fear we are returning. CE aims to [...]

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