All Comment articles – Page 45

  • Iain Parker
    Comment

    BCO Conference, Day Two: Fortune favours the brave

    2013-05-17T16:00:00Z

    Alinea Consulting’s Iain Parker gives his impression of the British Council for Office’s annual conference in Madrid

  • Iain Parker
    Comment

    BCO Conference, Day One: A brave new world?

    2013-05-17T10:45:00Z

    Alinea Consulting’s Iain Parker gives his impression of the British Council for Office’s annual conference in Madrid

  • Cornerstone
    Comment

    Listen closely

    2013-05-10T06:00:00Z

    All the noise from Westminster is about saving another £11.5bn. But more quietly, some areas of government are working to rationalise estates and provide construction work

  • Neil Jefferson
    Comment

    Neil Jefferson on building sustainable homes

    2013-05-10T06:00:00Z

    ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø truly sustainable new buildings isn’t just about regulations

  • microphone lead
    Comment

    Unblocking the arteries

    2013-05-10T06:00:00Z

    Megaprojects shouldn’t be at the expense of smaller transport infrastructure upgrades that have a more immediate impact on our working lives

  • Steve Beechey
    Comment

    TIF of the iceberg

    2013-05-03T06:00:00Z

    Battersea’s Nine Elms development has got the green light to use tax-increment financing. Does this mean the industry has overcome the funding impasse?

  • Joey Gardiner
    Comment

    Kier-May Gurney: A good deal?

    2013-04-26T17:01:00Z

    ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø’s assistant editor Joey Gardiner on the Kier’s proposed takeover of May Gurney

  • Andrew Stunnel
    Comment

    How difficult can it be?

    2013-04-23T13:42:00Z

    Fixing our housing problems will be a hard slog - but some progress is being made, says Andrew Stunell

  • Richard McCarthy
    Comment

    Making waves

    2013-04-19T00:00:00Z

    Richard McCarthy: The Green Deal may have got off to an unsteady start but, by working with government, the industry can still turn it into a success

  • Ian Davidson
    Comment

    Blacklisting discoveries 'appalling'

    2013-04-16T14:20:00Z

    Blacklisting practices revealed in inquiry beggar belief, says Ian Davidson, chair of the Scottish Affairs Committee

  • Neil JeffersonNeil Jefferson
    Comment

    Overheating: It's getting hot in here …

    2013-04-12T06:00:00Z

    Neil Jefferson, director of the NHBC and chief executive of the Zero Carbon Hub

  • useful
    Comment

    The drive of your life

    2013-04-12T00:00:00Z

    We’re so besotted with process that we’ve lost sight of the end product. We should learn from Formula One

  • KPMG
    Comment

    The making of us

    2013-04-09T14:54:00Z

    Many have bemoaned the coalition’s reliance on private funding for infrastructure, but this new reality could benefit construction firms if they are able to adapt fast enough

  • David Weight
    Comment

    Going green? Give it time

    2013-04-05T00:00:00Z

    David Weight believes opportunities to reduce embodied carbon are often thwarted by a tight build programme. With careful planning and more time, emissions could be slashed

  • JONATHAN HART
    Comment

    PF2 - Where are we now?

    2013-04-03T16:09:00Z

    Are we about to see a successful come-back for PFI? There are five questions to answer first, says Jon Hart

  • Rick Wheal
    Comment

    Reality check

    2013-03-28T06:00:00Z

    Rick Wheal, consultant at Arup, on why our approach to sustainable building has to change

  • Richard Steer
    Comment

    My beef with the Budget

    2013-03-27T06:00:00Z

    Richard Steer laments a speech that offers no real nourishment to the industry and, what is worse, shows the chancellor to be deaf to the demands of construction

  • Simon Rawlinson
    Comment

    BIM: Method in modelling

    2013-03-22T00:00:00Z

    The new BIM protocol and standard should finally put an end to the industry’s ad-hoc approach to managing information, says Simon Rawlinson

  • Sarah Richardson, editor of ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø
    Comment

    Budget 2013: Slowly, but not surely

    2013-03-20T17:41:00Z

    No one really expected the chancellor to suddenly abandon austerity but many hoped he would

  • Neil Jefferson
    Comment

    Tackling the energy performance challenge

    2013-03-15T06:00:00Z

    Neil Jefferson, director of the NHBC and chief executive of the Zero Carbon Hub