All Comment articles – Page 49
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Better designed homes can improve young people's life chances
Damien Sharkey explains how HUB's recent design competition set out to help the next generation thrive
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Construction industry gossip: The life and times
A shameless plug for a book all about me (Joseph Aloysius Hansom, founder of The Builder) and my links with social reformer Robert Owen
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Wrong answers to wrong questions: why the planning proposals are flawed
The planning system needs wholesale reform but this white paper is not how to do it, writes Julia Park
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Case in focus: MG Construction Ltd vs AGD Equipment Ltd
Ted Lowery considers a claim for defective piling equipment
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A chance for permanent transformation
If we hold fast we’ll look back on 2020 not just as a year of crisis, says Keith Waller
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If there’s a second wave, we all get drenched
Construction bosses are considering how to get through one of the toughest winters they have ever faced
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We have risen to the challenge by working together
At a time of national crisis the construction sector can be proud of the way it has put self-interests aside and acted collaboratively, says James Wates
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Sign the EWS1 form at your peril
The EWS1 form was meant to offer reassurance about fire safety, but in liability terms it’s a death trap for consultants
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Let’s lift modular into the mainstream
It is time to think big and give our archaic homebuilding industry something to be positive about, says Mark Farmer
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The office will endure as a positive choice for many
The chances of a significant long-term change in our traditional working behaviour are massively overestimated, says KPMG’s Richard Threlfall
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Fireproof historic buildings or the consequences could be dire
Adrian Attwood on why historic landmark fires happen and how to stop them
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Is it time to look up to a city in the sky?
The catastrophic economic impact of lockdown calls for a global rethink of how we might live and work in future, says Gleeds’ Richard Steer
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Modular is not delivering, here’s why
To revolutionise how we build we need a complete change of mindset, says Buro Happold’s Wolf Mangelsdorf
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Practical ways to help staff’s mental health
A little thought can have a big impact when people are feeling the strain, says ODS’ Martin Shields
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Radical ideas for getting fans back into sports stadiums
Scott Brownrigg’s Neil MacOmish dreams of ways we can watch live sports in venues once again
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The government’s ‘algorithm for homes’ may be its next A-level style fiasco
Proposals to change the method behind England’s housing targets could dash hopes of leveling up, says Clive Docwra
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Anger over defeated Fire Safety Bill amendment is misplaced
Change may not be fast enough for some but it is coming, says Andrew MellorÂ
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MMC is the key to faster and better hospitals
Project teams achieved the seemingly impossible during lockdown, we must not revert back to old ways, says Gleeds’ Victoria Head
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We have to step up to the net zero carbon challenge
WSP argues for a collective effort to reach the 2050 target, as it reveals details of 22 Bishopsgate’s embodied carbonÂ
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My interpreter role: Helping designers and builders speak the same language
Laurence Reilly on his switch from contractors to an architecture practiceÂ