Opinion – Page 234
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Hansom: The past is a foreign country
This week, Jagerbombs all round at Gleeds Serpentine Pavilion Party, a HBF conference speaker fails to bow to (or perhaps comprehend) political correctness, and construction gets ready to rock
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Mt digital life ... Seth Love-Jones
The partner at property and building consultant TFT on compulsive Googling, social netwoking and being an Apple tart
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Standardised school designs: It ain't what you do, it's the way you do it
There’s nothing intrinsically bad about standardised school designs - it’s whether they can be made to work
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Now there's an idea
The Conservative Party conference was high on rhetoric but low on new ideas to drive recovery
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Wonders & blunders with Jerry Tate
Jerry Tate hails Renzo Piano’s skilful handling of an Italian car factory, but laments how a French ski resort ‘for the masses’ went rapidly off piste
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Beware estate agents selling optimism – the housing market remains in a worrisome state
While the RICS may see a brighter end to the year, in relative terms it is still extremely gloomy
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ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø for Life 12: A smarter approach
HTA’s Ben Derbyshire explains how the newly launched ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø for Life will open dialogue and help developers
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Exaggerated claims: Brit Inns Ltd & Another v BDW Trading Ltd (No 2)
In this case the defendant failed to adequately protect its position on costs with an effective Part 36 offer
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A quick guide to construction insurance
A quick guide to the different types of insurance that may be required or maintained in connection with a construction and engineering project
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Flickr pic: ANMA's ARTEM University Hub in France
The first phase of architect ANMA’s ARTEM University Hub in Nancy, France. The photo is by Alexander Prevot
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Save your scorn
Since the recession simple maths dictated we need to deliver more for less, but as with any equation, there is a tipping point
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Not perfect but good enough for these austere times
Baseline school designs: some may think we’re selling our children short but we need to look at a system that can deliver in tough times
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Fragmented construction industry
If we just look after our own interests we’ll never get the government to listen to us
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Hansom: Visions and revisions
This week, the ONS struggles with statistical correctness, Crispin Odey plans to put some birds up in a stately home, and the first post-Olympic neighbourhood is ready, ahead of time and under budget
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Public money for shovel-ready projects
Central and local government need to focus on getting funded projects moving as quickly as possible through procurement.
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Despair at education sector
The government is failing to cut red-tape, bureaucracy and money
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My digital life ... Noble Francis
The CPA economics director and ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø columnist on why he prefers PCs to Mac, listening to Roxette, and trying to remember how he got by before iPads
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Garden Cities: Learning from the regions
Politicians discussing garden suburbs and cities at next week’s Conservative conference would do well to look further than London and Hertfordshire