CIGPE elect new Guernsey chair - December 2011
MAL director Patricia Newell Maher has been elected as chair of the Guernsey branch of CIGPE, the Channel Islands Group of Professional Engineers.
CIGPE is a multi-disciplinary grouping of professional engineering institutions in the Channel Islands, the four principal engineering bodies being the IET, ICE, IMechE and IStructE.
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D & B or Design & Dump? - October 2011
'Design and Build' (D&B) is not a method of construction. It is a method of procuring a building that represents a different way of managing some of the risks associated with the traditional form of procurement - where the risks associated with the interface between design and construction are normally retained and managed by the client.
D&B is increasingly popular with clients as the risk primarily lies with the contractor and the process is relatively easy to understand. With D&B, the project is specified to be designed (at least in part) and built by the same contractor, which in theory allows for greater collaboration and co-operation.
However, the route to any successful construction project still relies heavily on the three Cs - Communication Communication Communication.
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MAL One Year On - August 2011
A year on from our merger with leading Jersey civil and structural engineering firm T & G Limited and McCathie Associates Limited (MAL) continues to go from strength to strength.
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MAL welcomes new director - June 2011
Guernsey engineering consultancy MAL, which is part of the T & G Group, has appointed senior design engineer Patricia Newell Maher as a director of the company.
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MAL announce their merger - July 2010
In June 2010, MAL announce their merger with T&G Jersey. With over forty years of trading between us. The first truly “Pan Island” Consultant Civil and Structural Engineers
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