All Leader articles – Page 36

  • Tom Broughton
    Comment

    A tale of two campaigns

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    The government is to be given credit for answering the cries for help from industry over the ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Regulations. In our Reform the Regs campaign, we called on the government to work with industry to make the existing regulations coherent, to make new regulations transparent and to put up a ...

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Welcome

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    The ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Hall of Fame is a celebration of the men and women who have done most to change the built environment for the greater good since 1966. That date is not arbitrary, as the Hall also acknowledges a 40th anniversary that passed earlier this year.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Talking about an evolution

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    It was with glorious confidence and lofty ambition that The Builder first appeared in 1843. Its aim was to be a magazine for everyone connected with making buildings.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Not bad for government work

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    We've become so drenched by the shower of initiatives and targets emitted by New Labour that when a truly significant idea comes along, it doesn't always register.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    The bitter taste of success

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Multiplex's victory over its steelwork contractor on Wembley stadium has left a nasty taste in the mouth.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    We're going as fast as we can

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Green energy has come a long way since the 1970s. More accurately, it has travelled the 120 miles that separate the hills of Snowdonia and the Palace of Westminster.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    The vexed question of sex

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    Step forward Fiona Macdonald to collect the Chief Executive of the Year Award

  • Rt Hon Margaret Hodge
    Comment

    Leader

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    The domestic repair, maintenance and home improvement sector is large, diverse and fragmented.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Where are we now?

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Skills shortages, prefabrication, health and safety, equality.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Reshuffle, new deal

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Tony Blair's slash-and-burn reshuffle is dismaying for the industry.

  • Tom Broughton
    Comment

    How to build an empire

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    As a deal, it is every marketing man's dream. In a single negotiation a UK consultancy can transform itself overnight into an enormous international player with offices across the world.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    No end of a lesson

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    The government's 21st-century schools extravaganza is in deep, deep trouble.

  • Darren Richards, Mtech Group
    Comment

    Off-site, on target

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Off-site technology isn't new, but the industry is only just waking up to its benefits - about time too

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Monsters incorporated

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    David Miliband lived up to his reputation for thinking big this week. On Wednesday the communities minister announced a review of the agencies that are responsible for delivering the government's sustainable communities plan. It's a brave decision and a potentially exciting development.

  • Tom Broughton
    Comment

    The rules of the Games

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Back in February, Jack Lemley, the new chair of the Olympic Delivery Authority, waltzed into a room full of lawyers after two months in the job and set out his stall: disputes on Olympic construction projects will be dealt with during the construction process and not after it.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    The crowds are on the pitch …

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    In this the 12th year of the ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Awards, we are using the occasion to mark two very special 40-year anniversaries.

  • Thomas Lane
    Comment

    Why is Part L so bad?

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Pretty much everyone in the industry agrees that saving energy and cutting carbon emissions from new buildings by 20% is a Good Thing.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Now for the high jump

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    The honeymoon is most definitely over. ...

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Strong medicine

    2006-03-24T00:00:00Z

    So the PFI has been booked in for some much-needed surgery. For years it has been getting more unwieldy, more expensive and less attractive to the private sector. Finally, Gordon Brown is to do something to save an essential method of upgrading public services.

  • Tom Broughton
    Comment

    Industrial terrorism

    2006-03-17T00:00:00Z

    When Montpellier abandoned its contract to build an animal testing laboratory for Oxford University 18 months ago, it was seen as an isolated incident.