All articles by Colin Harding – Page 3
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Making plans for Nigel
Small, efficient firms are being squeezed out by a government that is hand-in-glove with big construction. So, here are some suggestions for our new minister
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A paradise for parasites
To shut out small firms, the Treasury made the PFI process so adversarial that it got captured by lawyers, who are now eating us out of schools and hospitals
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We need a new tax
The Construction Industry Scheme was an attempt to retain everything that is oppressive and antiquated in our industry. And it's about to get worse …
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We're not the only ones
Like construction, the pensions industry has failed to focus on what its customers need. It should take a leaf out of our book and indulge in some free-thinking
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Smell the coffee
If the Construction Industry Council is dreaming that it can turn the clock back to the discredited days of the independent consultant, it will have a rude awakening
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It can be a wonderful life
Honest Victorian values need not be a thing of the past, as long as the roles of consultants and contractors can be integrated into one-stop construction teams
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Skills scheming
Registration of skilled workers could be a boost for the industry – if the information was not being used for less worthy purposes such as poaching
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Biologically better
When is a project like a biology lesson? When clients have to distinguish between parasitic, value-sucking consultants and their symbiotic integrated cousins
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Feeding the parasites
Egan was meant to get parasitic surveyors, architects and consultants off the builder's back. Now his Strategic Forum is effecting their return
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Taking the initiative
Small firms are shut out of PFI projects because the Treasury doesn't understand what they have to offer: the difference between success and failure
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Nanny strikes again
The self-employed keep the industry competitive, but the government seems dead set on hounding them out of existence. Why?
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Fair-weather friends
Too many people's commitment to partnering is a politically correct veneer that cracks to reveal the old adversarial thinking as soon as the going gets tough
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The employer-bashers
Colin Harding - New Labour started off as the friend of small and medium-sized businesses, but ended up, predictably, drowning them in regulations. Drastic changes are called for
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Enemies of the state
Colin Harding - Pension scheme employers are being asked to stump up to cover the pension industry's incompetence and the government's desperation to avoid blame
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Rethinking partnering
Colin Harding - Forget meaningless buzzwords, it's time for the industry to come to terms with the Egan reforms and work together in a genuine spirit of partnership
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Red tape costs lives
First person - This government has done a huge amount for construction, but it needs to realise that bureaucracy does not stop accidents.
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Tony and Adolf on design
First person Compulsory regulation of public building, big contractors only for the NHS … control freak Blair has arrived at construction.
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Why I quit
First person The Construction Confederation is divisive, obstructive and dominated by the majors. So, George & Harding is saying goodbye.
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The phoney war ends
Tony Blair has sounded the death-knell for those who fought against the Egan revolution. Now let’s win the peace.
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