UK consultants earn 6.7 billion pounds sterling a year: previously uncounted billions of pounds of fees come to light in first state-of-trade poll

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A study, commissioned by the UK DOE and the Construction Industry Council, reveals that the 19,000 construction industry consultants earned total fees of 6.7 billion pounds sterling in 1995-96. The state-of-trade survey, based on 800 companies, shows that 1 billion pounds sterling was earned overseas and that the remaining fees were excluded from the industry's official 1996 output figures of 50 billion pounds sterling.

Engineering Services, Surveying services, Geophysical Surveying and Mapping Services, Civil Engineers, Construction industry, Surveys, Consultants, Consultants (Persons), Survey services (Geodesy), Construction Industry Council

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Ethics man: the chairman of Ove Arup Partnership may be responsible for a 160m pounds sterling-a-year company, but he takes his responsibility to safeguard the moral values of the firm equally seriously

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Duncan Michael is chairman of Ove Arup Partnership and he will lead a practice-wide review of the firm's direction until the millennium. He aims for the practice to be the best in the world with quality of work being the driving force. He believes that the firm's divisions should retain their professional autonomy, but sees a need for closer links between the international offices.

Management, Michael, Duncan

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Where do you draw the line?

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Many architectural practices with old-style values, are spending more time on a project than a fee will allow for. Further strains on a practice's resources is the explosion in architectural competitions, where a high level of presentation is expected. One practice had to restructure to survive, by dividing it into separate development, design and build divisions.

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