All articles by Colin Harding – Page 2
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CommentHow to fund a revolution
Last year, I proposed the formation of construction city academies to combat the lack of basic skills in young people. Now, here’s how we should finance them ...
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CommentTwilight of the Gods
Colin Harding is fed up of architects with a god complex going on about iconic design. When it comes to the Olympics, thou shalt worship none but design and build
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CommentHard lessons
Open your wallets, construction industry, because a network of city academies is the only hope we have of halting the relentless march of the soft degrees ...
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CommentGet out of our way
Colin Harding If the government would just leave us alone and stop interfering with its feeble regulations and all-encompassing spin, we could get on with building for the Olympics
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CommentPigs and cream
The construction industry is split into the firms that do the actual work and those that skim off their profit under the guise of supervision and regulation
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CommentRethinking pensions
The present pensions system is wrecked beyond repair, but that doesn't mean that it can't be replaced with a system that is fair, equitable and workable
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CommentArchitects of our downfall
Colin Harding CABE acts for an architectural elite and against the interests of the construction industry in general. The result is an approach to building that you might call Blairist …
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CommentLet the games end
More and more decent contractors are opting out of tricky public projects. If the government wants us back to build its Olympics, it’ll just have to outlaw retentions
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CommentTax, lies and red tape
Don’t argue for the postponement of the Construction Industry Scheme – it should be scrapped so that the self-employed can get on with boosting the economy
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CommentWe’d be great together
The British Property Federation’s consultancy agreement is a good start, but what we really need is an all-inclusive contract for all parties and single project insurance
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FeaturesTurn us loose
The main problem faced by the government, the economy and the construction industry is over-regulation. Tackling it should be the main task of Labour’s third term
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CommentRe-integrating the team
The National Audit Office has called for integrated construction teams. But why is it so hard to recreate what earlier generations took for granted?
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CommentClucking hell
If construction has been likened to a flock of quarrelsome chickens, it is because industry bodies are concerned with nothing but their own place in the pecking order
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CommentGive us our money back
Colin Harding The government’s Pensions Bill is proof that it is waging a war against small employers. It is time to take our savings out of the Treasury’s hands
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Mark my words, Gordon
If the chancellor thinks that his backing the Quality Mark will rid the industry of cowboy builders, he’s obviously got a lot to learn about cowboy customers
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Dear John …
Colin Harding addresses an open letter to the deputy prime minister, sincerely bestowing warmest felicitations on his latest achievement – and offering a few helpful hints
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Sorry, I'm a bit tied up
If the growth forecast in Gordon Brown's Budget is to prove more than a confidence trick, the chancellor can start by slashing the red tape strangling construction
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A turn for the worse
A decade of revolutionary culture change seems to have culminated in the triumph of a class of supervisor bureaucrats. The real workers are back where they started
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Getting from A to B
The government can't work out why construction isn't delivering the schools and hospitals it promised the public. Actually, it's not that hard to see why
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The end of innocence
Government, employers and insurance firms all assured us our pensions were in safe hands. Now our eyes have been opened, and it's time to go it alone
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