All News Analysis articles – Page 12

  • Earls Court
    Features

    Earls Court: That's show business

    2014-08-07T10:45:00Z

    Plans to redevelop 77 acres of prime real estate in Earls Court - entailing the demolition of London’s landmark exhibition centre - have become mired in political wrangling. But is there really any doubt as to how it will end?

  • merger
    Features

    The sum of their parts: Mergers and acquisitions

    2014-07-31T06:00:00Z

    There’s no guarantee that mergers will work out for the companies involved - we look at four of construction’s biggest deals

  • Skills gap news analysis
    Features

    Training to nowhere

    2014-07-11T06:00:00Z

    Plenty of young people across the UK are signing up for construction training - the real problem, according to a report out today, is that many are taking courses that simply don’t meet the industry’s needs.

  • Recovery position
    Features

    How vital is government as a construction client?

    2014-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Public sector work has kept much of the construction industry off the critical list for the past six years but with the private sector now in increasingly robust health, how much is government really needed as a client?

  • Did it change us?
    Features

    Latham's report: Did it change us?

    2014-06-27T00:00:00Z

    Twenty years after the publication of Sir Michael Latham’s Constructing the Team, Joey Gardiner looks back at the report’s impact, whether it changed construction for the better and if its grand ambitions survived the financial meltdown

  • Green Construction Board
    Features

    What's been the impact of the Green Construction Board?

    2014-06-20T06:00:00Z

    As the Green Construction Board marks its second birthday, not everyone has found reasons to celebrate. But the board’s defenders point to impressive delivery of a 162-point action plan. Now it needs to convince others it can make a difference

  • ڶ whitepapers 2
    Information - ڶ

    Download free white papers from ڶ

    2014-06-06T16:00:00Z

    Download updated white papers on Sustainability and UK Education plus many more from the archive - free for subscribers

  • Brasilia National Stadium
    Features

    The beautiful game

    2014-06-06T06:00:00Z

    Busted budgets, poor planning and co-ordination, horrendous delays, cancelled transport schemes, laborious bureaucracy, corruption, mass protests and onsite fatalities - apart from that, preparations for the 2014 World Cup seem to have gone very smoothly

  • London skyline
    Features

    The London housing problem

    2014-05-30T06:00:00Z

    Best estimates suggest that London needs to be creating between 42,000 and 52,000 homes each year to keep up with demand. But with only 17,000 built in the last year, what chance is there of closing the gap?

  • BIM
    Features

    Is BIM ready to stand alone?

    2014-05-22T08:53:00Z

    The industry has made great strides in adopting BIM since the government said it would be a compulsory part of public sector work by 2016. However, news the task group driving uptake is soon to be wound down is shaking confidence that the deadline will be hit

  • Balfour Beatty
    Features

    What next for Balfour Beatty?

    2014-05-16T06:16:00Z

    The UK’s biggest contractor appears to have slipped into crisis with a profit warning, the departure of the chief executive and £400m wiped off the firm’s value. So, what is Balfour Beatty’s next move?

  • Workers of the World unite
    Features

    Workers of the World unite

    2014-04-17T00:01:00Z

    Bosses of employee-owned companies claim greater engagement and increased profitability. So why isn’t everyone doing it?

  • Crane
    Features

    Fair payment charter: Cheque’s in the post

    2014-04-08T17:25:00Z

    Few issues are more contentious in construction than payment practices. So will a new fair payment charter that asks contractors to commit to shorter payment times actually work - or merely add to the pile of previous failed attempts to reform the industry?

  • The squeeze is on
    Features

    Tax changes for temporary site workers

    2014-03-28T06:00:00Z

    In a radical move that seems bound to increase labour costs, the government is clamping down on temporary site workers claiming to be self-employed. And as if that wasn’t bad enough news for construction companies using this kind of labour, they’ve only got two weeks to prepare for the change ...

  • George Osborne
    Features

    Budget 2014: Over to you, George

    2014-03-14T06:00:00Z

    Ahead of next week’s Budget, ڶ looks at the measures the construction industry can expect to emerge from Osborne’s red box

  • UK floods
    Features

    Flooding: 'We're planning for the wrong future'

    2014-03-06T07:51:00Z

    As recent events have starkly illustrated, the UK can no longer ignore the growing risk of floods. But what can planners and designers do to manage our rising water levels? Here four of the country’s leading experts give their views

  • news analysis paper people
    Features

    Skills shortages: Let the right ones in

    2014-02-20T08:57:00Z

    With the upturn in work has come predictions of a skills shortage. But the CIC’s Jack Pringle thinks the need for architects, QSs and engineers is already so critical that we should be sourcing them from outside the UK and Europe

  • Paul Sheffield - Kier
    News

    Kier boss hints he's leaving construction

    2014-02-18T13:11:00Z

    Chief executive Paul Sheffield says he is excited about using his skills to do “something completely different”

  • What goes around …
    Features

    Procurement: Facing the consequences

    2014-02-07T00:00:00Z

    For five years some clients have been taking advantage of the downturn by dumping risk on contractors and screwing them down on price. But now things are on the up, is the supply chain hitting back?

  • Green Deal montage
    Features

    Green Deal: One year on

    2014-01-28T16:51:00Z

    The Green Deal is one year old this week but the celebrations are, to put it mildly, subdued. We look back on a year of disappointments for the energy efficiency retrofit market