All Comment articles – Page 34
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CommentDigital training: Is the industry interested?
Construction needs to move with the times and continue to embrace the digital era
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CommentThe Professionals
In the built environment, professionalism has largely been the preserve of the consultants and designers in charge of the ‘virtual’ part of construction. But ‘real’ construction needs these values too - in spades
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CommentNail your colours to the mast
The question of whether the UK should remain in the European Union is a classically polarised debate
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CommentThe estates we’re in
Will Cameron’s rhetoric about regenerating the UK’s most run-down estates lead to any benefits for the people who actually live on them?
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CommentWater, water everywhere
That the UK needs greater flood defences is a no-brainer. Getting a level of co-ordination between government departments and local authorities to make it happen is the challenge
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CommentDear minister...
As the festive season draws to a close it’s time to look at the big challenges for 2016. What would our columnist say to a new built environment minister about the year that lies ahead for the construction industry?
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CommentTown and gown
If universities and the cities they’re in talked to each other more about their individual goals, they’d find plenty of overlap and opportunities to enhance their shared spaces
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CommentHelping Nepal
What working as an engineer in Nepal’s rebuilding programme following April’s earthquake taught me
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CommentWho turned up the heat?
Meeting carbon budgets outlined at the Paris Climate Conference is a regulation the UK might actually feel the effects of
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CommentHere we go again
The government’s resolve - yet again - to postpone the decision on airport expansion shows that planning remains subservient to politics, and sets off alarm bells for the National Infrastructure Commission - which must act now to protect its authority
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CommentNew year, new challenges
The industry remains on course to pass 2007 pre-recession levels next year, but it’s no time to put your feet up
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CommentReady, action
World leaders at the Paris summit entered the final stages of negotiation over an agreement to limit carbon emissions this week
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CommentBuilding Live: That was the week that was
Here are seven things we learned at last week’s Building Live conference
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CommentHousebuilding: Home delivery
The government is keen to move away from `generation rent’ but are the measures it is putting in place enough to deliver the homes the country needs?
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CommentGeorge, the builder
Might the chancellor’s catchphrase of “we are the builders” actually have come good?
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CommentSpecs and the City
The City of London has progressed past its original Square Mile perimeter physically. Now what businesses want culturally from the urban landscape has also changed
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CommentTouching the void
A recent decision shows the consequences of failing to disclose material facts to insurers - dangers the Insurance Act 2015 should help alleviate
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CommentThe colour of money
How much is really at stake for the sector in next week’s spending announcement?
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FeaturesUniversity of Sussex: The second act
The renovation of the University of Sussex’s arts centre transforms the space beyond an education facility to a fully fledged performance venue