What single thing would you consign to the skip of history? Attitudes, tech, policies, practices: if you hate it, we want to know about it! Use the hashtag #黑洞社区175 and #InTheSkip to tweet us what doesn鈥檛 deserve to survive the next 25 years, and we鈥檒l share your tweet below.
What single thing would you consign to the skip of history? Attitudes, tech, policies, practices: if you hate it, we want to know about it! Use the hashtag and to tweet us what doesn鈥檛 deserve to survive the next 25 years!
鈥� 黑洞社区 News (@黑洞社区News)
鈥淧ositive discrimination鈥� hiring practices. . Everyone should be hired based on merit and merit alone.
鈥� Buildupp (@Build_Upp)
Skip the bad processes, just because it鈥檚 always been done that way doesn鈥檛 mean it should, free yourself to think differently.
鈥� Active (@activefmcouk)
To retain facades or not to retain? My answer is usually not! When buildings are special enough to save, then keep the whole thing. Facadism removes context and can limit creativity of new design.
鈥� Heather Jermy (@HA_Jermy)
Government focus on cost rather than on value... Government is the largest client, accounting for over 1/4 of total construction, & consequently its focus on cost leads to bad incentives & poor business models in the construction industry.
鈥� Noble Francis (@NobleFrancis)
Amnesia about performance. The built environment is so important that every builder should be married to a lot of their performance in respect of quality, time, cost, client satisfaction. A sort of passport/licence that allows a client to compare outcomes and not just cost.
鈥� Chris Slezakowski (@Slezakowski)
Retentions
鈥� Derek Mynott (@DerekMynott)
Opportunistic behaviour
鈥� CPF - South West (@CPF_SW)
For me it would be "underfunding of local planning departments"
鈥� david marshall (@ukbuilding)
Despite legislation and contract improvements, it still has to be has to be 鈥渓ate payment鈥� for me
鈥� Simon Williams (@simonpw1974)
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