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Inbox: Eco living

2011-11-25T00:00:00Z

This week, we hear from one firm about its green legacy, while other readers comment on the flawed planning process and the politics of sustainability

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Inbox: Quick fix

2011-11-18T00:00:00Z

This week, readers want to help unemployed graduates, solve the problem of congestion on the M25 and see the government consider the consequences of reducing feed-in tariffs

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Inbox: Hot topic

2011-11-11T00:00:00Z

The solar debate heats up this week as one reader explains the reasoning behind the feed-in tariff cuts, while another draws our attention to a solar energy technology being left in the shadows

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Inbox: On balance

2011-11-04T00:00:00Z

This week, readers weigh up the arguments for and against PFI, decide the Green Construction Board is missing an academic voice and urge the Scottish government to reconsider its capital budget cuts

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Inbox: Trials and tribulations

2011-10-28T00:00:00Z

The problems facing the industry this week are low margin rewards, high prices for utilities, fierce competition in the UK from overseas companies and the technicalities of BIM

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Inbox: Good cheer

2011-10-21T00:00:00Z

The October sunshine lifts the mood as readers toast a straight-talking lawyer and a pier in need of a revamp, while QSs insist they have befriended BIM - or would do if the software could be standardised

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Must do better

2011-10-07T00:00:00Z

Readers consider how groups or organisations could improve. ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø inspection, the RICS and housebuilders all come in for criticism this week

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Inbox: What's missing?

2011-09-30T00:00:00Z

Readers discuss what’s needed to make the industry more eco-friendly, and have a name to add to the credits list for Colchester’s Arts Centre

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Inbox: Mad for metaphors

2011-09-23T00:00:00Z

Comparisons abound this week, with designers likening pylons to dinosaurs and daggers, while other readers lament the stingy proportions of ‘shoebox’ homes and ‘toy town’ developments

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Inbox: Six of one

2011-09-16T00:00:00Z

Readers are juggling pros and cons this week, looking at planning reforms, mortgage guarantees and the long- and short-term impact of BIM

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Inbox: Credit where it's due

2011-09-09T00:00:00Z

Readers praise those who deserve recognition, be they engineers, the builders of code level 6 homes, or Scottish local authorities that have boosted housebuilding

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Inbox: Public enemy number one

2011-09-02T00:00:00Z

This week, readers discuss the funding problems with affordable housing, our inability to deliver projects on time and on budget without PFI, and the place of academia in our industry

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Inbox: pointing the finger

2011-08-26T00:00:00Z

It’s a matter of accountability this week, as readers blame the ONS for overestimating and distorting statistics, columnists for failing to give the full story, and arsonists - not timber - for being a fire risk

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Inbox: That's enough

2011-08-12T00:00:00Z

This week, readers have had it with airports near their homes, having to operate at unsustainable margins, those late-paying main contractors and architects’ stardom-seeking experiments

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Inbox: In harmony

2011-08-05T00:00:00Z

One reader reflects that working collaboratively brings great results. Not that it would necessarily do much to make energy saving in a conservation area cost-effective or help a full-time dad find work

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Inbox: Neither here nor there

2011-07-29T00:00:00Z

This week, where are all the mums that need work? And are timber-frame flats about to become similarly scarce? Meanwhile, it’s dictionaries at dawn for the lawyers

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Inbox: Worry not

2011-07-22T00:00:00Z

What’s the best test?Regarding Rab Bennetts’ article (15 July, page 26), as an architect-turned-procurement-of-architects-specialist for a large software company, I am interested in seeing an example or a little more detail about the system for procuring architects that he would use to get a better qualitative assessment. He makes some ...

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Inbox: the blueprint

2011-07-15T00:00:00Z

Readers are concerned with matters of design, arguing the case for crazy and silly shapes, suggesting that there are better nuclear plants on the way and voicing concerns over liability in the use of BIM

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Inbox: true colours

2011-07-08T00:00:00Z

This week we focus on colour, shape and scale: from blue language about would-be green buildings, to the demise of the wacky London skyscraper and the rise of the mega-consultant

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The whole picture

2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

Knowledge is power this week as readers ponder the unknown factors affecting the new planning rules, rail against the complexity of government schemes and put Hansom right on an issue of detail