All News Analysis articles – Page 9

  • M62 motorway
    Features

    Planes, trains and automobiles

    2016-04-27T06:00:00Z

    George Osborne is famously a fan of infrastructure - but is he putting his money where his mouth is?

  • Battersea crane collapse
    Features

    Battersea crane tragedy: After the fall

    2016-04-22T06:00:00Z

    Ten years after the Battersea crane tragedy, Joey Gardiner talks to the mother of one of the two men killed in the accident and asks if tower cranes are any safer now than they were a decade ago

  • Steel
    Features

    Testing our metal

    2016-04-21T06:00:00Z

    The steel rollercoaster of the last few weeks seems to have ended well, with Greybull’s purchase of Tata’s construction division. But is this, and the government’s call to ‘buy British’, enough to save UK steel?

  • Cover Mayoral Election
    Features

    A tale of two mayors

    2016-04-15T06:00:00Z

    With Londoners headed to the polls on 5 May to decide the city’s next mayor, we look at the impact frontrunners Zac Goldsmith and Sadiq Khan would have on the major construction issues facing the capital

  • Leo Quinn
    Features

    Balfour Beatty: ‘Not short of stellar’

    2016-04-08T06:00:00Z

    When Leo Quinn took over at a troubled Balfour Beatty, he launched a two-year strategy to revive the fortunes of the UK’s largest builder

  • BIM-cover
    Features

    Have you seen the BIM deadline?

    2016-04-01T06:00:00Z

    From Monday, any firm wanting to be considered for public sector construction work will need to be BIM level 2 compliant. Yet just days before the deadline, only about half of companies are using the technology

  • feature1
    Features

    Construction materials: Past our peak?

    2016-03-23T10:40:00Z

    It turns out that the construction industry is using substantially less ‘stuff’ than it was 15 years ago. Is this a blip or a victory for resource-efficiency?

  • Apprentices
    Features

    Apprentices: ‘The numbers don’t add up…’

    2016-03-17T06:00:00Z

    Three times as many people are leaving the industry each year as are joining, so today’s skills crisis is set to get a lot worse

  • The Co-op’s 3D Reid-designed headquarters in Manchester
    Features

    The green business case

    2016-03-08T06:00:00Z

    Since its election last year the Conservative government has cut back a lot of sustainability legislation. But can sticking with the eco-building agenda benefit construction firms’ business model anyway?

  • Housing
    Features

    Ecobuild: Programme preview

    2016-03-07T14:41:00Z

    The ongoing struggle to build homes, the business case for sustainability and how to drag construction efficiency into this century are just some of the themes of Ecobuild 2016

  • TFL
    Features

    TfL: Branching out

    2016-02-19T13:05:00Z

    Transport for London’s plans to develop some 75 sites will make it one of the capital’s biggest developers. Here it names the partners for its £3.6bn development framework

  • Hinkley C
    Features

    Hinkley Point C: Shovels at the ready …

    2016-02-10T06:00:00Z

    Construction firms have been poised to build Hinkley Point C since 2007. But nine years later the decision on whether to invest in the £18bn project has yet to be taken

  • Robot
    Features

    Modern construction: Bring on the robots

    2016-02-04T06:00:00Z

    Construction needs a million extra hands, but no amount of workers from Poland or from apprenticeship programmes are going to fill the gap. Now, technology-driven reform that makes construction less labour-intensive is being proposed – but is it the game changer the industry needs?

  • packing a punch
    Features

    Small housebuilders: Packing a punch

    2016-01-29T06:00:00Z

    For years, volume housebuilders have held sway over the UK’s new homes sales market. But against expectations, the recession has given some small builders the chance to challenge their supremacy

  • Brexit
    Features

    Brexit: Ins and outs

    2016-01-21T06:00:00Z

    With an EU referendum looking likely for the summer, the implications of a Brexit are becoming starker – and time is running out for the industry to take a stand

  • occupational health
    Features

    Occupational health: Fit for purpose

    2016-01-14T06:00:00Z

    The construction industry has made huge progress on on-site safety in the last 20 years but health conditions have largely been neglected. Are things starting to change?

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    Features

    Paris summit: Feeling the heat

    2015-12-10T06:00:00Z

    At this week’s UN Climate Change Summit, the UK could no longer boast of having the greenest policies in the room. So after several months of Conservative policy changes, how is the country measuring up to its own targets?

  • fulham wharf
    Features

    BIM survey 2015: It’s the final countdown

    2015-11-19T06:00:00Z

    With just over four months to go before BIM level 2 will be required on all central government projects, ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø reveals the responses to its second annual BIM survey. There’s good news … and there’s bad news

  • crossrail alamy
    Features

    Spending cuts: Where the axe falls

    2015-11-05T06:00:00Z

    As the chancellor prepares to unveil the latest Comprehensive Spending Review and Autumn Statement, ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø asks where will the cuts be made

  • on the turn
    Features

    Economic recovery: On the turn?

    2015-10-30T06:00:00Z

    Future-gazing economists don’t have to look very far to see threatening signs on the horizon for the construction industry. As the CPA revises its forecasts down, should we be calling time on the recovery?