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Articles Published Coca-Cola HQ, Hammersmith. Front reception entrance PCL was commissioned by Bucknall Austin Construction Management to manage the M&E Services Installation
Juice & Cola bar in the main resturant and typical floor area - below
After completion PCL managed the post-contractual work over the next six months
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These articles, including the HVAC soap box article, were written in response to similar papers raising the question of the problems within the construction industry and in particular M & E services co-ordination, put forward in various publications including the HVAC Journal and the RICS, CS Journal.

Click to Download Pull Yourselves Together
HVAC Journal - June '99
The industry needs to work on it's co-ordination. Most problems on site can be traced back to badly defined design information that is left so wooly, sub-contractors then having to put their own interpretation to designs.
Click to Download Consultants Lack Co-Ordination
HVAC Journal - April '99
Consultants are letting down their clients by failing to fully co-ordinate the design process, leading to expensive variations during construction.
Click to Download Contractors clinging on to 'money-spinning' variations
H & V News - March '99
Contractors are still rejecting full co-ordination of projects design because it restricts their ability to make money on variations.
Click to Download Services fall back
H & V News - September '93
Building services is falling behind other sectors of constructions because equipment is often installed with incomplete design information and services are not coordinated properly.
Click to Download Urgent guidance on water regs needed
H & V News - December '99
Published letter to the editor of H & V News in response to a number of similar articles.

Please feel free to download (max file size only 22KB) any of our forward thinking articles below in Microsoft Word format and get a better idea of how we work and benefit to the construction process.

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