All Comment articles – Page 67
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CommentQuentin Shears: The Dubai polar bear sanctuary
’I get the Oxford Anthology of Business poetry off the shelf. It’s time for the big guns’
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NewsMaking a case for health and safety
It's not easy being a health and safety professional, but it's certainly important
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NewsHow green is your brand?
You don't have to aim to save the planet, but to win business nowadays you do need to show off your sustainability credentials
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CommentMeditations in an emergency
What happens when, in the middle of a horrible recession, a group of engineers devotes a year’s worth of Mondays to thinking instead of working?
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NewsHave you been made redundant?
Has the recession threatened to end your career? Tell us how you've coped with redundancy in the construction industry
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NewsHousebuilder bonuses: Have bosses lost the plot?
What's the right approach for top execs to take in a recession?
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NewsConstruction activity may be positive but there are dangers ahead
CIPS construction activity indicator points to growth but there's little reason for joy
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NewsBrickonomics: Why figures for output and jobs don't match
The Office of National Statistics has tried to explain a divergence in its figures, here’s how
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NewsBrickonomics: Local builders are feeling the pain
A survey by the FMB shows that after two and a half years its members are still suffering from the recession
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NewsDubai's expats adjust to life in the slow lane
Building's global editor reports on her recent trip to Dubai
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NewsStarting your own business, part 16: The cashflow challenge
As your firm grows you need more capital to sustain it, which may mean having to be in debt to the bank for a time
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NewsBleak and tortured: Kapoor's Orbit is hardly an Olympic ideal
The widely panned sculpture's biggest flaw is its lack of meaning
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NewsTransforming lives
A new trust hopes to help school children take full advantage of the educational, creative and sporting facilities Building Schools for the Future will create for them
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CommentWhat politicians really think
It is in a government’s nature to cut capital spending before public revenue. But the Charter 284 cause can be served by appealing to politicians’ worst instincts
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CommentWonders & blunders
Richard Steer is staggered by an extraordinary structure built for the last Olympics, but is worried that London’s efforts will be blighted by its industrial past
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CommentQuentin Shears: academy@grimston
“The secret to a healthy team spirit, I have discovered, is a shared vested interest”