All Comment articles – Page 32

  • Sarah
    Comment

    Hinkley on hold

    2016-02-12T06:00:00Z

    Will next Tuesday be the day EDF finally gives the go-ahead to a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point C?

  • Andrew Warren
    Comment

    The DEC decision

    2016-02-11T12:30:00Z

    The government should strengthen, not abandon, the Display Energy Certificate system

  • Jack Pringle
    Comment

    Gold Medal for the diva

    2016-02-08T13:08:00Z

    With a portfolio that pushes the limits of what is possible, Zaha Hadid proves being relentlessly demanding pays off

  • Sarah
    Comment

    Modern times

    2016-02-05T06:00:00Z

    Will Westminster finally help address construction’s skills shortfall?

  • Chris Tinker
    Comment

    Housebuilding: In the balance

    2016-02-03T06:00:00Z

    The rate and extent of change to different housing policies designed to stimulate delivery could see their desired effects cancelled out. Maintaining stability of delivery is key for the sector’s growth

  • Sarah
    Comment

    Credibility at work

    2016-01-29T06:00:00Z

    The problem of fraudulent skills is not new to construction

  • Peter_Trebilcock
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    Digital training: Is the industry interested?

    2016-01-27T14:00:00Z

    Construction needs to move with the times and continue to embrace the digital era

  • James Wates
    Comment

    The Professionals

    2016-01-27T06:00:00Z

    In the built environment, professionalism has largely been the preserve of the consultants and designers in charge of the ‘virtual’ part of construction. But ‘real’ construction needs these values too - in spades

  • Sarah
    Comment

    Nail your colours to the mast

    2016-01-21T06:00:00Z

    The question of whether the UK should remain in the European Union is a classically polarised debate

  • Sarah
    Comment

    The estates we’re in

    2016-01-13T07:00:00Z

    Will Cameron’s rhetoric about regenerating the UK’s most run-down estates lead to any benefits for the people who actually live on them?

  • Sarah
    Comment

    Water, water everywhere

    2016-01-08T07:00:00Z

    That the UK needs greater flood defences is a no-brainer. Getting a level of co-ordination between government departments and local authorities to make it happen is the challenge

  • Richard McCarthy
    Comment

    Dear minister...

    2016-01-08T06:00:00Z

    As the festive season draws to a close it’s time to look at the big challenges for 2016. What would our columnist say to a new built environment minister about the year that lies ahead for the construction industry?

  • Philip Watson
    Comment

    Town and gown

    2016-01-06T11:15:00Z

    If universities and the cities they’re in talked to each other more about their individual goals, they’d find plenty of overlap and opportunities to enhance their shared spaces

  • Rossella Nicolin
    Comment

    Helping Nepal

    2015-12-28T06:00:00Z

    What working as an engineer in Nepal’s rebuilding programme following April’s earthquake taught me

  • Andrew Warren
    Comment

    Who turned up the heat?

    2015-12-23T06:00:00Z

    Meeting carbon budgets outlined at the Paris Climate Conference is a regulation the UK might actually feel the effects of

  • Sarah
    Comment

    New year, new challenges

    2015-12-18T06:00:00Z

    The industry remains on course to pass 2007 pre-recession levels next year, but it’s no time to put your feet up

  • Simon Rawlinson
    Comment

    Here we go again

    2015-12-18T06:00:00Z

    The government’s resolve - yet again - to postpone the decision on airport expansion shows that planning remains subservient to politics, and sets off alarm bells for the National Infrastructure Commission - which must act now to protect its authority

  • Sarah
    Comment

    Ready, action

    2015-12-11T06:00:00Z

    World leaders at the Paris summit entered the final stages of negotiation over an agreement to limit carbon emissions this week

  • Sarah
    Comment

    ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Live: That was the week that was

    2015-12-04T06:00:00Z

    Here are seven things we learned at last week’s ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Live conference

  • Chris Tinker
    Comment

    Housebuilding: Home delivery

    2015-12-02T13:15:00Z

    The government is keen to move away from `generation rent’ but are the measures it is putting in place enough to deliver the homes the country needs?