All Leader articles – Page 29

  • Comment

    One last big push

    2009-06-12T00:00:00Z

    Pat McFadden, Lord Mandelson’s deputy in the Commons and a Cabinet attendee, has acknowledged that construction’s representation in Whitehall is a joke, and that a chief construction officer is needed

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Sometimes a great notion...

    2009-06-05T00:00:00Z

    They say great ideas have three phases: first, they’re ludicrous, then they’re wrong and finally they’re obvious

  • Comment

    Why nobody wants to buy

    2009-05-29T00:00:00Z

    Tumbling fees, dwindling workloads and payment periods stretching beyond the horizon

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    We should listen to the cynics

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    We’ve heard a lot in the past week or so about people who follow the letter of the rules but not their spirit. Rather too much, in fact

  • Comment

    Architects, take a bow

    2009-05-15T00:00:00Z

    Prince Charles didn’t say he’d employ Lord Foster to make over Highgrove – that would really have been a great way to make up with the modernists

  • Comment

    The prince and the profession

    2009-05-08T00:00:00Z

    So is he about to aim another missile at the architectural profession? Or will he finally offer it an olive branch?

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    We need better politicians

    2009-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Surely efficiency savings have to be made by working with the supply chain: after all, the government has been saying just this for 10 years

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    About all we could hope for

    2009-04-24T00:00:00Z

    The Budget might not have been all that the industry would have wished for, but for a country facing its biggest public debt since the war, it was about what you’d expect

  • Comment

    Sending out an SOS

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    When Alistair Darling delivered his pre-Budget report in November, most firms were hoping that it would launch a lifeboat they could clamber aboard to wait out the worst of the recession

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    U, V - or W?

    2009-04-09T00:00:00Z

    There was a definite mood of optimism at the ڶ Awards last Thursday. Lots of people had a real reason to celebrate, of course, but the mood change was caused by more than champagne

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    A horror story

    2009-04-03T00:00:00Z

    But what really infuriated the colleges and their teams is that the organisation continued to push them to spend their own money on projects that were effectively doomed

  • Comment

    Clients: what are they like?

    2009-03-27T00:00:00Z

    Which clients deserve a medal? Which should be shunned like yellow dogs?

  • Denise Chevin, editor
    Comment

    Too tight to mention

    2009-03-20T00:00:00Z

    This year’s pay round is going to be unfair

  • Comment

    Blackening our name

    2009-03-13T00:00:00Z

    What is it with this industry? Just when you think we’ve left the Dark Ages well behind something comes along to remind us what a short step we are from dodgy and outdated working practices

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Going public

    2009-03-06T00:00:00Z

    The government’s decision to bring out its cheque book yet again – this time for the PFI – is a massive fillip for the industry

  • Comment

    We need a strategy

    2009-02-27T00:00:00Z

    “It’s all very well calling for a Keynesian programme of public works to kickstart the economy,” wrote Rachel Sylvester in The Times on Tuesday, “but JM Keynes did not have to deal with the PFI.”

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    One hell of a job

    2009-02-20T00:00:00Z

    So are we all agreed, then? What the government needs is a construction industry that is able to turn public investment into buildings and jobs

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    This is an emergency

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    The argument this week over whether Ed Balls meant to say we were in the worst recession for 100 years may have caused mild hysteria in the media, but it won’t have raised many eyebrows in construction

  • Comment

    The skyline just got safer

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    When ڶ launched its Safer Skyline campaign almost two years ago, the crane industry was in crisis

  • Chris Shirley, guest editor
    Comment

    Our agenda

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    The recession is not without its fringe benefits. I, for one, have pounced on the opportunity to stop my children’s pocket money (even as I type these words they are combing west London in search of work, and the lessons learned will no doubt prove as important as schoolwork).