All building the future commission articles
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FeaturesBuilding the Future Commission: why recruitment is industry’s top priority
After a year of consultation and careful consideration, the Building the Future Commission has published its final report. In this final chapter, Dave Rogers considers the challenge of building a skilled workforce to do increasingly complex jobs – and then keeping them happy
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FeaturesBuilding The Future Commmission: Take a long-term view to give UK the infrastructure it needs
After a year of consultation and careful consideration, the Building the Future Commission has published its final report. In this chapter, Dave Rogers explains why the country’s economic welfare depends on efficient planning and a clear and stable pipeline
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FeaturesBuilding The Future Commmission: Attracting, engaging and retaining the next generation
After a year of consultation and careful consideration, the Building the Future Commission has published its final report. In this chapter, Ben Flatman considers the challenges facing construction in its quest to employ the brightest and best
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FeaturesBuilding The Future Commission: Time to prepare for the next digital revolution
Last week the Building the Future commission published its final report. In this chapter, Thomas Lane considers the best ways to increase productivity by investing in and embracing emerging technologies
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FeaturesBuilding the Future Commission: Planning to solve the housing crisis
Last week the Building the Future commission published its final report. In this chapter, Joey Gardiner considers how we might change a dysfunctional system and hit the target of building 300,000 new homes a year
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FeaturesBuilding the Future Commission: Powering down the road to net zero
After a year of consultation and consideration, last week the Building the Future commission published its final report. In this chapter, Thomas Lane considers how the industry can reduce its carbon emissions and implement greener methods of energy use and production
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NewsBuilding the Future Commission calls for return of chief construction adviser
Building today publishes The Long Term Plan for Construction report, with a host of recommendations for industry and government
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NewsNicholas Boys Smith and architect Patty Hopkins recognised in New Year Honours List
Former building safety programme director Neil O’Connor and Royal Academy of Engineering president James Rufus also handed honours
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FeaturesBuilding the Future Commission conference: Views from the TV booth
Building the Future commission conference delegates were invited in front of a TV camera at last month’s event to share their ideas to improve the built environment.
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FeaturesFuture thinkers: six winners outline their ideas for future proofing the industry
The Building the Future Commission has named six up-and-coming professionals as winners of its Future Thinkers Awards. Here, the victorious candidates explain their thinking
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FeaturesWhat we learned from the Building the Future Commission’s inaugural conference
After nine months of consultation, the commission gathered the industry together in Westminster
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FeaturesReforming planning: one way to solve the housing crisis
The Building the Future Commission has spent several months analysing the English planning system. Joey Gardiner reports
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NewsHS2 cuts risk turning railway into ‘shuttle service’ between Acton and Birmingham, says Armitt
NIC chair adds chopping and changing flagship project sends ‘incredibly negative message’ to world
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NewsConstruction cannot ‘tweak broken model’ to solve productivity puzzle, says MMC boss
Merit’s Tony Wells tells conference industry needs radical rethink
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NewsNew ‘rules of engagement’ needed to meet AI challenge, says Fosters research chief
Machine learning need not replace architects, Martha Tsigkari tells Building the Future Commission conference
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FeaturesThe Building the Future Commission: the interim findings revealed
The interim report from Building’s ambitious project to improve the built environment and unlock the potential of the construction industry
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Long readThe stakes are high – so are the rewards: AI and the future of construction
In a special long-read comment piece, Martha Tsigkari of Foster + Partners considers how AI will affect our industry
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FeaturesThe innovations to tackle construction’s carbon problem
In the last of four features on innovations, we look at how the industry can mitigate upfront embodied carbon impacts
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FeaturesBuilding the Future Commission: review of July
A quick guide to the Building the Future Commission’s activity over the past month