All Industry comments articles – Page 16

  • Brian Green
    News

    Does the GDP debate rest on dodgy figures?

    2009-12-23T11:18:00Z

    Our expert blogger examines the construction industry's economic foundations

  • Gus Alexander
    News

    Christmas crackers: Gus Alexander

    2009-12-22T12:22:00Z

    ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø's architectural critic tells us what's on his festive wish list

  • Brian Green
    News

    Grim outlook for jobs in construction

    2009-12-18T16:15:00Z

    Brickonomics: Another drop in workload will have a devasting affect on what is already a fragile jobs market

  • News

    2009 rewound: a review of the year

    2009-12-18T11:37:00Z

    This was the year spent in the eye of the hurricane, between the collapse of private spending in 2008 and the collapse of public spending in 2010. Sarah Richardson remembers 12 months that many in the industry are trying to forget

  • News

    Dramatic exit of the year

    2009-12-18T01:52:00Z

    Lee Polisano, the founder of the UK arm of US architect Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), left in September to set up his own firm PLP Architecture

  • News

    Strange tale of the year

    2009-12-18T01:49:00Z

    The Wrekin Ruby

  • News

    Campaign victory

    2009-12-18T01:42:00Z

    In February, the Health and Safety Executive finally caved in to demand for a national register of safety checks on tower cranes

  • News

    Flop of the year

    2009-12-18T01:40:00Z

    The Battersea power station chimney

  • News

    Deal of the year

    2009-12-18T01:39:00Z

    Balfour Beatty and Parsons Brinckerhoff

  • News

    How the state helped – and didn’t

    2009-12-18T01:38:00Z

    The public sector provided the vast bulk of any work there was in 2009, with fears that spending would slow before the election not holding true

  • News

    A green revolution

    2009-12-18T01:35:00Z

    The carbon-cutting campaign gathered momentum as the year went on, culminating in the Copenhagen summit of world leaders in December – and a last-minute appearance by US president Barack Obama

  • News

    Three bright spots

    2009-12-18T01:31:00Z

    The aquatic centre roof lift

  • News

    An industry of ill-repute

    2009-12-18T01:30:00Z

    The public’s opinion of construction took a hammering in 2009 with the Office of Fair Trading’s allegations of tender malpractice against 110 firms

  • News

    Hanging together

    2009-12-18T01:21:00Z

    Construction’s disparate yet oddly indistinguishable trade bodies have, as noted by James Wates some years ago, long borne a worrying resemblance to Monty Python’s Judean People’s Front, the People’s Front of Judea and the Judean Popular People’s Front, at least in the eyes of Whitehall

  • News

    A Right royal row

    2009-12-18T01:17:00Z

    Prince Charles is well-known in for his vitriol towards all things carbuncular, but nobody could have predicted the row that kicked off when he criticised Richard Rogers’ designs for the Chelsea Barracks scheme in April

  • News

    Quotes of the year

    2009-12-18T01:16:00Z

    "The crisis was predictable and probably avoidable. The final confusion in communication made a bad situation worse"Sir Andrew Foster, former chair of the audit commission, gives his verdict on the Learning and Skills Council debacle"He’s a menace to London"George Ferguson, former RIBA president, on Rafael Viñoly"I’ll stay on. A million ...

  • News

    A trail of destruction

    2009-12-18T01:13:00Z

    The year began on a bleak note when it was confirmed on 23 January that the UK had entered recession for the first time since the early nineties

  • Jude Law
    News

    ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Quiz of the Decade: The Answers

    2009-12-17T17:50:00Z

    How did you do?

  • Jude Law
    News

    ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø's Pub Quiz of the Decade

    2009-12-17T17:35:00Z

    You may think you know construction - but do you? Find out by answering our killer questions …

  • Eden project
    News

    The decade's best projects

    2009-12-17T17:34:00Z

    Here are what we selected as our favourite projects of the past 10 years … plus the results of our reader poll