All Comment articles – Page 102
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CommentBuilding for life, not age
Population ageing is one of the most critical challenges facing the built environment industry - and an issue wider than the concerns over an ageing construction workforce
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CommentHansom: Confusion reigns
Willmott Dixon’s suppliers confront their inner rubber ducks, and the waters rise at the Houses of Parliament
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CommentThe new NPPF: will it deliver the numbers?
The latest updates to planning policy need to be seen in the context of a slew of recent reports and analysis, suggesting development is likely to continue to be subject to local interpretation and testing
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CommentLeader: Living on the margins
The big story in this year’s Top 150 league tables is contractors’ pitifully low margins compared with housebuilders’ surging profits
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CommentLow carbon technologies: how do we ensure installed performance?
Terry Keech says it’s time to end the disconnect between ‘intended performance’ and ‘actual performance’ of low carbon technologies installed in social housing
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CommentThere is only one path to decarbonising heat – we must realise that now
The only way to decarbonise heat generation is by going all-electric, says Barny Evans. And we need to start working on it now.
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CommentLegal: a knotty problem
James Bessey explains that a recent case showing nuisance can be caused by omission as well as action has implications for cladding fires
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CommentLegal: Cyber Security: smart buildings
Paul Glass and Jill Hamilton of Taylor Wessing’s cyber security team consider the benefits and risks of internet-enabled technology
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CommentBetter by design
We need to embed design into the DNA of our built environment and ensure infrastructure connects on a human scale. A new assessment from the NIC points to how it might be done
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CommentYou can’t design out risk – we must manage buildings better post-Hackitt
We need to design, commission and build differently, but fire risk doesn’t end at completion – far from it
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CommentHow smart cities can become reality in the UK
The UK needs to take considered but bold steps into the smart city revolution
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CommentHave we reached collaboration nirvana?
After years of talk about how important collaboration is in the engineering industry, the team working on Crossrail’s Farringdon station believe they’ve reached the summit. Ken Davis, project director at SNC-Lavalin’s Atkins business, talks about how they got there
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CommentLegal: A different kind of model approach
Daniel Garton and Ralph Goodchild on using system dynamics as evidence in delay and disruption claims
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CommentLeader: South-eastern promise
Consumer products giant LG’s new super laboratory on the edge of South Korean capital Seoul has to be seen to be believed.
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CommentThought for tomorrow: An end to fixed-price contracting
We ask readers to share their visions of the construction industry in 25 years’ time
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CommentHansom: What a coincidence
England hung on in the World Cup for just long enough to inconvenience consultants’ party planning – and is it Big Ben’s lack of hands that has removed parliamentarians’ sense of urgency about Brexit?
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CommentLegal: operating under-covered
Steven Carey looks at problems in obtaining professional indemnity insurance for cladding-related work in the wake of the Grenfell fire
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CommentLook east to export
We need to sell our brands abroad in new ways if UK businesses are to take advantage of emerging opportunities in fast-growing South-east Asia
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CommentThe importance of emotional intelligence in construction
In the hard-nosed construction environment, terms like emotional intelligence can be easily misunderstood or misinterpreted. It’s not a soft skill. It’s about helping teams perform at their collective best
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CommentNational Infrastructure Assessment: More devolution required
Whilst the NIC is making great progress and giving a clear voice, it does ultimately operate within the constraints set by the Treasury, writes Ramboll’s Mathew Riley