The publication of BS 8572 on New Year’s Eve might have been overshadowed by the usual year-end celebrations; but unlike the party effect, which wears-off quickly, the benefits of Procuring facility-related services will last for many years.
Once it was just health and safety (H&S). Increasingly, concern about the wellbeing of people and the environment has broadened the term to HSSE - health, safety, security and environment. The last of these terms now appears in some places as 'environmental sustainability' and, most recently, the term has been reduced simply to 'sustainability'. We now have HSSS or HS3 for short.
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Construction will outpace world GDP growth in the next decade as Asian markets continue to develop rapidly and the US registers a sharp cyclical recovery, according to a global forecast for the construction industry over the next decade to 2020. Global Construction 2020 provides global and regional forecasts for infrastructure, residential and non-residential markets and analyses market dynamics in 45 key countries.
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If speed of construction is what matters most then take a look at this example of fast-track construction in China. Six days is all it took to build this hotel.
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