All Comment articles – Page 33
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CommentUnstoppable BIM
After half a decade of pressure, persuasion and investment, how successful has the initiative been?
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CommentBIM: The new way of doing business
A 50% adoption rate is an astonishingly high level of engagement
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CommentPayment niggles
We’ve made great strides against payment abuse over the years but further changes to the Construction Act are needed
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CommentA Budget and its blunders
The government’s plans to cut disability benefits has meant that last week’s Budget has come in for intense public and political scrutiny and now the government needs to find £4.4bn to balance its books
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CommentSo what do you think of it so far?
Six months in and Build UK is already making a difference on illegal working, pre-qualification, payment issues, the skills shortage and apprenticeships. It’s also got different parts of the industry talking to each other
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CommentProductivity: Upping our game
There has always been a gap between productivity levels in UK construction and those in most other sectors. Unless we focus on the reasons for this, we’ll always be underperforming
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CommentAu revoir, Mipim?
Will the UK property sector’s relationship to the annual event change if Britain leaves the EU?
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CommentBudget 2016: Cold comfort
Confirmation that the government is backing the NIC is welcome but their approach to infrastructure is still falling short of the mark
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CommentOlympic effort
With the Rio Olympics almost upon us, it’s worth remembering that the London Games were a shining example of British planning and development teams pulling together on a huge scale. It’s a spirit that needs to be rekindled on future projects
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NewsCommercial shows strongest growth in four months
London and rest of the UK experience strongest commercial activity reports Savills commercial index
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CommentWhat makes good housing?
When creating homes you have to put people first, then work on the buildings and spaces. Placemaking simply doesn’t work unless you start with a vision for the community
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CommentMoney where the mouth is
The picture painted by the government of a fresh regeneration push as a fix to poverty ignores the complexity of the communities it is designed to help
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CommentWe hold the key
Michael Gove’s recent rhetoric about rehabilitation may open the door to designing the UK’s new generation of super-prisons as institutions of redemption, a million miles away from the high-tension, low-hope jails across the Atlantic
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CommentEU referendum: The great unknown
The noise from Westminster on the decision dubbed “one of the biggest in our lifetimes” by Cameron has only built as the week has gone on
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CommentA client for London
TfL’s launch of a 300-acre development programme will promote a significant amount of investment in the built environment at a time when it is desperately needed
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CommentHinkley on hold
Will next Tuesday be the day EDF finally gives the go-ahead to a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point C?
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CommentThe DEC decision
The government should strengthen, not abandon, the Display Energy Certificate system
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CommentGold Medal for the diva
With a portfolio that pushes the limits of what is possible, Zaha Hadid proves being relentlessly demanding pays off
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CommentHousebuilding: In the balance
The rate and extent of change to different housing policies designed to stimulate delivery could see their desired effects cancelled out. Maintaining stability of delivery is key for the sector’s growth