All Building articles in 27 June 2014 – Page 3
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CommentThe fracking revolution
Proposals to streamline UK trespass laws could allow companies to extract shale gas from underneath an adjacent landowner’s property without permission
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CommentHow much did Latham's report change us?
A great deal has changed over the last 20 years, but has the construction industry changed as much as Latham would have hoped?
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CommentA bright future
Since coming to power in 2010, this government has tried to engage with the construction industry to make public spending on buildings and infrastructure leaner. Here the minister for the Cabinet Office counts the ways
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CommentHansom: Whatever floats your boat
This week, the construction industry has fun on the water and climbs every mountain - well, three of them - while Berkeley celebrates trickle-down happiness and the chancellor makes a shocking confession
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FeaturesFrom the archive in ... 1994
This week we look back to the initial rumblings of the Construction Industry Board, later chaired by Sir Michael Latham, as this Building news story reveals
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NewsContractors picked for £1bn rental housing pipeline
Balfour Beatty and Brookfield top list of five firms picked by developer Essential Living
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FeaturesLatham's report: Did it change us?
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
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NewsHuge profit boost for Hill as turnover hits £200m
Essex-based firm reports a doubling in pre-tax profit for 2013 calendar year
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FeaturesThe recyclable house
Technology used to build the world’s largest McDonald’s is being adapted to build temporary, highly flexible, 100% recyclable housing in Holland. Could the model be brought here to solve the UK’s affordable housing crisis?
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NewsSouth-east runway plans could be ‘kicked in to the long grass’
Senior Tory and Labour politicians raise concerns that plans will be ignored after next general election
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FeaturesSustainability: Minimum energy performance standards for commercial buildings
From April 2018, all rented properties must meet a prescribed minimum energy performance standard. Adam Mactavish of Sweett Group, Charles Woollam of SIAM and Sarah Sayce, emeritus professor of Kingston University, discuss the implications
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NewsGovernment told to take action on infrastructure
State of the Nation report from the Institution of Civil Engineers calls for action in areas of new energy generation, flood defence and local transport
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NewsAdonis calls for HS2 to be built in one go
Labour shadow infrastructure minister makes call as Lord Heseltine confirms interest from HS1 owners
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NewsMore firms tabling offers for housing contractor Keepmoat
£900m-turnover Doncaster contractor in early-stage discussions with at least four potential investors
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CommentApplying English law in Scotland
When deciding whether or not to enforce the adjudicator’s decision, the court had to decide if the contract was assessed under the English or the Scottish Scheme
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FeaturesReview of 2014's Serpentine Pavilion
Architect Smiljan Radić’s design is perhaps one of the most whimsical Serpentine Pavilion ever commissioned
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NewsHousing boss calls for national housebuilding target
The government has been urged to set a national target for housebuilding
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NewsGalliford seals £100m housing PFI
Galliford Try has reached financial close on a £100m private finance initiative contract to supply 240 supported housing units for Kent council, enabling work to get under way on the project
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CommentLatham's legacy
Since Sir Michael Latham published his milestone report 20 years ago, our industry is no longer characterised by delays, disputes and accidents. As part of Building’s special coverage of next month’s anniversary Peter Hansford looks at how Construction 2025 continues this journey of improvement
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