All Comment articles – Page 37
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CommentWhy a good mentor has never been a more valuable asset
Everyone needs someone to provide perspective, wisdom and guidance if they are to fulfil their full potential
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CommentBuilding Talks Net Zero Podcast: Materials matter - how to use concrete and steel responsibly in buildings
Episode 6: Interview with engineering firm Webb Yates and a visit to Feilden Fowles ‘demountable’ studio co-located on a farm | Heat pumps explained
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CommentWitnesses – do we need them?
Hamish Lal considers the relative value of witness evidence versus the documentary record
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CommentRay O’Rourke going, Steve Pycroft leaving? Blimey!
Two of the industry’s biggest personalities will be gone within months of each other
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CommentWe need to act now to sustain the old as much as the new
New buildings are increasingly designed to mitigate the effects of climate change but historic buildings require and deserve just as much attention
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CommentThere is a smart solution to management of building safety data
The impending legislation will require building operators to comply with challenging new regulationsns
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Raring to go
The sector’s leading lights were full of sporting energy this month – oh, and the Building Awards were back in person
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CommentBuilding Talks Net Zero Podcast: Tees Valley mayor on scaling up hydrogen production
Episode 5: Interviews with Ben Houchen, mayor of Tees Valley, and Maria Smith at Buro Happold | Cundall’s Simon Wyatt explains carbon sequestration
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CommentWe are all part of the green industrial revolution – but it’s only just begun
With COP26 having ended in a bit of a whimper, we must now ask ourselves what we as an industry can do to make change
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CommentWe have heard the proposals and read the words. Action is imperative now
Change is a journey to be taken one step at a time, but it is time for a big leap forward
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CommentWhy throwing the Tulip out was the right decision
Historic England chief executive Duncan Wilson explains why the government’s ruling should be welcomed
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CommentChallenges posed by climate crisis should be an opportunity not a threat
Firms already working towards a sustainable future can thrive. COP26 last was a wake-up call for everyone else
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CommentPoliticians have failed so it’s over to industry to take the lead
After two years of build-up and two weeks of debate, COP26 is over having achieved depressingly little in terms of meaningful action to tackle the climate crisis
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CommentNet Zero Jargon Buster: the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and understanding emissions
Simon Wyatt explains why to understand your carbon footprint you need to look at all green house gases
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CommentThat was COP26, so what next?
Progress on carbon trading was the biggest outcome from the climate conference for construction and should drive demand for low-carbon materials
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CommentStop deifying the institution
The RICS needs to move out of the Middle Ages: its true role is as a club that supports and trains its members, says Tony Bingham
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CommentGood COP or bad COP?
Jack Pringle looks back at what’s been achieved at the COP26 climate conference and what is just blah, blah, blah
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CommentThe race to build gigafactories
There is huge UK market potential in manufacturing facilities for electric vehicle batteries, but also significant challenges ahead
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CommentBuilding Talks Net Zero Podcast: Views from COP26 – the mood from industry leaders in Glasgow
Episode 4: Interviews with Skanska UK’s Gregor Craig, Mace’s Hannah Vickers and UKGBC | Cundall’s Simon Wyatt explains the Greenhouse Gas Protocol
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CommentAdjudication can rarely be enforced in insolvency
Julian Critchlow considers the recent appeal ruling in John Doyle, on insolvent claimants’ entitlement to summary judgment to enforce adjudicator’s decisions