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What is your Get Out Of Bed Rate?

Running a business is a matter of ins and outs. ‘My other piece of advice, Copperfield,’ said Mr. Micawber, ‘you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen, nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the [...]

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What good architects do: Strategy

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Picture two animals: a fox and a hedgehog. Which are you? An ancient Greek parable distinguishes between foxes, which know many small things, and hedgehogs, which know one big thing. All good-to-great leaders, it turns out, are hedgehogs. They know how to simplify a complex world into a single, organizing idea—the kind of basic principle [...]

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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 [...]

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PassivHaus – its about saving energy

When I was studying to be an architect in 1990s Liverpool our design tutors gave us a project. We were to choose a method of generating renewable energy by the Mersey, and then design a ‘theme park’ ride that would be powered by this energy. Now it’s worth remembering that as a design project in [...]

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How to get Planning Permission – Without any surprises

Everyone wants planning permission. Why? Because it adds value to their property and enables them to achieve their objectives. Getting a good planning consent is not as easy as it used to be, and if you are going to reap the benefits, you will also be taking the financial risk of making the application. All [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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What Good Architects Do No.1: Create value in property

Good architects create value in property, by using their design and negotiation expertise to: Social Bookmarking

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