All Leader articles – Page 34

  • Denise Chevin
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    Medical experiments

    2007-04-27T00:00:00Z

    PFI Hospitals. Remember them?

  • Denise Chevin
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    Tilting at windmills

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Barely a day goes by without some policy announcement on sustainability.

  • Tom Broughton
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    Mastering apprenticeships

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The continuing troubles of construction apprenticeship training are depressingly familiar.

  • Tom Broughton
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    Taxing times for all

    2007-04-05T00:00:00Z

    You’ve had a year of respite, but now the excuses must stop. From tomorrow, the government’s shake-up of the construction industry tax scheme (CIS) comes into force – after much heated debate, a few tears and a whole lot of confusion.

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    Concrete has many benefits. Add to these cost savings and sustainability ...

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Concrete’s many inherent benefits, such as fire resistance, sound insulation, robustness and minimum vibration, are widely recognised. New cost model studies and research now add cost-effective construction and sustainability to that list.

  • Denise Chevin
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    9.3bn for what, exactly?

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    The phrase “an inconvenient truth” may have been used for Al Gore’s film on global warming, but it also serves pretty well to describe the cost of building the London Olympics.

  • Tom Broughton
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    A great leap forwards

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Over the past nine months it has been easy to dismiss David Miliband’s carbon rhetoric as that of a fairytale emperor convinced that his invisible clothes were the finest in the land.

  • Denise Chevin
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    To build or not to build

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    The fact that most local authorities, urban ones anyway, regularly accept and embrace contemporary architecture is a mark of great progress.

  • Denise Chevin
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    Rebuilding Bovis

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Among the unfortunate dramas in the construction sector recently, of which sadly there have been many, the troubles of Bovis Lend Lease would seem to be the most self-inflicted.

  • Tom Broughton
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    The watchdog has finally barked

    2007-02-23T00:00:00Z

    At last, after months of misery, anger and frustration, we have this frank admission from Alistair Buchanan, the head of gas and electricity regulator Ofgem:

  • Denise Chevin
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    Visas alone are not the answer

    2007-02-16T00:00:00Z

    The RICS’ campaign to persuade the Home Office to relax the rules preventing overseas QSs staying in the UK is a no-brainer.

  • Denise Chevin
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    Barratt’s big deal is just the start

    2007-02-09T00:00:00Z

    The increasingly dramatic world of housebuilding took a spectacular plot twist this week.

  • Denise Chevin
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    Making it worth their while

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    You will have no difficulty recalling ڶ’s many column feet over the past few years devoted to tales of disastrous contracts and distressed contractors.

  • Denise Chevin
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    Why we need a crane crackdown

    2007-01-26T00:00:00Z

    It often seems that everything the construction industry does is bound in a fine mesh of red tape.

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    A journey without maps

    2007-01-19T00:00:00Z

    We were, of course, being ironic on our cover, but it’s no understatement to say the drive to make new homes zero carbon by 2016 is a venture into the unknown.

  • Tom Broughton
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    About that Olympic stadium deal ...

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    According to J Parrish, the director of sport at Arup, creating a large stadium is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle.

  • Denise Chevin
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    2007: the preview

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Happy new year. And indeed there’s much to be happy about in 2007.

  • Denise Chevin
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    What does going green mean?

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Melting ice caps and the plight of polar bears are primetime Saturday night viewing …

  • Denise Chevin
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    This time, it might actually work

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    Kate Barker is rapidly becoming the patron saint of housebuilders.

  • Denise Chevin
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    Give it to us straight

    2006-11-24T00:00:00Z

    One thing’s for sure about the London Olympics: the government won’t be picking up any medals for its management of the public’s expectations.