All Comment articles – Page 20
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Climate committee seeks more regulation
Several of the Climate Change Committee’s recommendations for further government action concern the built environment
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Contract clauses for the climate
The Chancery Lane Project brings together lawyers to draft contract clauses that incentivise climate positive practice
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Heatwaves and contract terms
What provisions are there in standard forms of construction contract to deal with adversely hot weather?
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Rebuilding Ukraine will be neither quick nor easy. We should start planning now
Colin Ross, general director of the Gleeds office in Kyiv, looks at the reconstruction task ahead – and asks who is going to pick up the bill
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Construction industry gossip: Kicking and screaming
There are more ways than one to show how you really feel
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For the sake of the planet, we need to fashion some order out of this chaos
The Tory leadership contest is an unwelcome hiatus at a time when vital decisions need making for the country’s future
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Bureaucratic procurement has been the norm, until now …
The Common Assessment Standard streamlines the construction pre-qualification process, Neil Mant suggests you give it a go
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Current political chaos could cast long shadow over our industry
With calls growing for tax cuts and short-term fixes, a longer-term growth strategy underpinned by investment looks to be at risk
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Don’t let short-term pressures deflect us from our carbon goals
The need to slow climate change could become a casualty of pressure to ease more immediate problems, That would be a serious and painful mistake
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We can’t tackle embodied carbon if we don’t measure it properly
Trying to establish the true carbon baseline for a project is often clunky and inefficient, but there are ways we can improve the process
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Building factories for the future
In designing gigafactories for the UK’s next-generation industries, the key imperatives are flexibility and future-proofing
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Designing conflict avoidance into contract terms
To reduce the risk of legal disputes requires greater care and collaboration in contract drafting – such as by adopting the RICS Conflict Avoidance Pledge
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We must use technology to attract new talent
The message that digital construction plays a key role in major projects is not being shared with the next generation, says Ibrahim Imam of PlanRadar
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Coaching clinic: The key to unlocking potential
Managers who behave like coaches help people solve their own problems rather than telling them what to do
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Making change through supply chain charters
A main contractor’s ESG supply chain charter can be a catalyst for environmental change across the construction industry
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The journey to decarbonisation remains a challenging one
Progress along the path towards net zero has been slow for the building sector but we have the tools to accelerate this process
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Case in focus: Patricia Andrews and Others vs Kronospan Ltd
Another case in which the court excluded expert evidence
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What the new Building Safety Act means
It is vital to grasp the wide range and deep impact of the new legislation and the measures put in place for compliance
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Construction industry gossip: Without a paddle
On the banks of the River Thames, there’s all kinds of shenanigans going on – not to mention recent events on a reservoir in north London
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We should celebrate apprentices like every other graduate
From nursery to higher education it is common practice to mark graduation milestones, apart from apprenticeships. It’s time for that to change