All Comment articles – Page 31

  • Chris Tinker
    Comment

    Down the garden path

    2016-04-20T06:00:00Z

    The government still seems keen to invoke the garden city movement of the past to provide much-needed housing. Planning and innovation will be key to deliver high-quality results

  • Jack Pringle
    Comment

    Picking teams

    2016-04-19T14:16:00Z

    The Brexit referendum could transform the UK from a cultural and economic global focal point to a recession-wracked pariah

  • Sarah
    Comment

    London beckons

    2016-04-15T06:00:00Z

    Three weeks from now, Londoners will head to the polls to decide who will fill the sizeable Boris-shaped void in the capital’s City Hall

  • Sarah
    Comment

    Zaha the great

    2016-04-06T06:00:00Z

    Zaha Hadid broke boundaries and will inspire a new generation of young architects with her inventiveness and experimentation

  • Paul King
    Comment

    Zero Carbon RIP

    2016-04-04T12:34:00Z

    Improving quality of life and tackling climate change must go hand in hand in delivering the new homes that the UK needs

  • Sarah
    Comment

    Unstoppable BIM

    2016-04-01T06:00:00Z

    After half a decade of pressure, persuasion and investment, how successful has the initiative been?

  • Paul Morrell
    Comment

    BIM: The new way of doing business

    2016-04-01T06:00:00Z

    A 50% adoption rate is an astonishingly high level of engagement

  • Rudi Klein
    Comment

    Payment niggles

    2016-03-31T06:00:00Z

    We’ve made great strides against payment abuse over the years but further changes to the Construction Act are needed

  • Sarah
    Comment

    A Budget and its blunders

    2016-03-24T06:00:00Z

    The government’s plans to cut disability benefits has meant that last week’s Budget has come in for intense public and political scrutiny and now the government needs to find £4.4bn to balance its books

  • Rudi Klein
    Comment

    Productivity: Upping our game

    2016-03-23T11:00:00Z

    There has always been a gap between productivity levels in UK construction and those in most other sectors. Unless we focus on the reasons for this, we’ll always be underperforming

  • James Wates
    Comment

    So what do you think of it so far?

    2016-03-23T11:00:00Z

    Six months in and Build UK is already making a difference on illegal working, pre-qualification, payment issues, the skills shortage and apprenticeships. It’s also got different parts of the industry talking to each other

  • Rennie Dalrymple
    Comment

    Au revoir, Mipim?

    2016-03-21T16:57:00Z

    Will the UK property sector’s relationship to the annual event change if Britain leaves the EU?

  • Sarah
    Comment

    Budget 2016: Cold comfort

    2016-03-18T06:00:00Z

    Confirmation that the government is backing the NIC is welcome but their approach to infrastructure is still falling short of the mark

  • Richard McCarthy
    Comment

    Olympic effort

    2016-03-11T07:00:00Z

    With the Rio Olympics almost upon us, it’s worth remembering that the London Games were a shining example of British planning and development teams pulling together on a huge scale. It’s a spirit that needs to be rekindled on future projects

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    News

    Commercial shows strongest growth in four months

    2016-03-10T09:07:00Z

    London and rest of the UK experience strongest commercial activity reports Savills commercial index

  • Tony Pidgley
    Comment

    What makes good housing?

    2016-03-09T11:14:00Z

    When creating homes you have to put people first, then work on the buildings and spaces. Placemaking simply doesn’t work unless you start with a vision for the community

  • Sarah
    Comment

    Money where the mouth is

    2016-03-04T06:00:00Z

    The picture painted by the government of a fresh regeneration push as a fix to poverty ignores the complexity of the communities it is designed to help

  • Richard Steer
    Comment

    We hold the key

    2016-03-02T13:00:00Z

    Michael Gove’s recent rhetoric about rehabilitation may open the door to designing the UK’s new generation of super-prisons as institutions of redemption, a million miles away from the high-tension, low-hope jails across the Atlantic

  • Sarah
    Comment

    EU referendum: The great unknown

    2016-02-25T06:00:00Z

    The noise from Westminster on the decision dubbed “one of the biggest in our lifetimes” by Cameron has only built as the week has gone on

  • Sarah
    Comment

    A client for London

    2016-02-19T06:00:00Z

    TfL’s launch of a 300-acre development programme will promote a significant amount of investment in the built environment at a time when it is desperately needed