All Comment articles – Page 185
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CommentConstruction 2025: Where were you?
The government’s strategy document outlined a utopian vision for construction. What happened?
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CommentIs right to buy the right solution?
Far from conservative, the new government could see a housing revolution
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CommentFIDIC contracts: Simply red
A recently reported case held that the employer was not entitled to take advantage of its own wrongdoing in enforcing a condition precedent under the FIDIC Red Book
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CommentLove thy neighbour (or sue them)
What happens if something happening on a neighbouring property causes damage to next door?
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CommentMentoring: Bridging a generation gap
Mentoring for the industry’s next leaders should not just go one way - there’s plenty more senior professionals can learn too
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CommentHansom: Parties and politics
The anti-Garden Bridge brigade phone it in, RIBA gets theatrical in an ex-Shed, Prince Charles’ fears about fish are published, and someone has to pay at Balfour Beatty. Plus, Make parks itself in its new studio
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CommentCollaborative working: Going nowhere fast
The unfortunate tendency for everyone in this industry to go it alone means we will fail to capitalise on a new stable government - unless we finally start collaborating
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CommentStand and deliver
The government needs to act now to have any chance of staving off a housing crisis
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CommentOnline poll: Professions
Are the institutions of construction professionals becoming less relevant to the industry? Vote here
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CommentWhat’s really going on?
Latest statistics show construction industry has shrunk in first quarter of 2015
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CommentBusiness as usual
Housing and construction activity not affected by election uncertainty according to latest indices
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CommentCyber attacks
The building industry needs to wise up to the threat of attacks on businesses from cyberspace and what it can do to guard against them
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CommentWhy can't we build homes people actually want to live in?
We have a housing crisis not just because we are building too few homes - it’s also because the ones we have already built are just not popular
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CommentWhat does negative inflation mean for construction?
Why news of 0.1% fall in prices in April isn’t something to get too worried about - yet
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CommentThe government's energy savings are not all they seem
Evidence has emerged the UK govt is massaging figures to meet EU energy saving targets
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CommentCan rooftop solar work on commercial buildings?
The current vogue for PV on domestic roofs needs to be extended to the nation’s commercial building stock
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CommentStandard terms: May the forms be with you
Are you sure your standard terms and conditions of contract apply?
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CommentContractors can - and should - drive the adoption of BIM
While collaboration is the real key, it is contractors who are best placed to lead the use of BIM on projects
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CommentVBC: Pretty vacant
How much should a developer get when a vacant building is brought into use or knocked down to make way for new build? Does the vacant building credit deserve credit or a post-election re-think?
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CommentHansom: Ups and downs
This week, London property moguls and an arts executive consider their respective fortunes under a Tory government, while others escape politics by embracing the virtual world and life at high altitude