All Comment articles – Page 86
-
Comment
Is developing on small sites achievable?
In the Draft New London Plan, Sadiq Kahn has set a target of 64,935 new dwellings per year, with 24,573 of these to be delivered on small sites. But how realistic is this?
-
Comment
Product manufacturers must regain confidence, but industry already has an appetite for change
The publication of Dame Judith Hackitt’s Independent review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety issued an important and resounding call for change across the entire construction industry. A number of challenges were identified about how we ensure our buildings keep people safe. Construction products were not ...
-
Comment
How to be good
Forget about market dynamics outside our control – here’s a plan for making sure what we can affect is done right from the start, and it’s all about good behaviours
-
Comment
Getting rooftop development right
If the challenges can be overcome, then developing above London’s rooftops has the potential to help ease the capital’s housing crisis
-
Comment
How IPI turned collaboration from a buzzword into successful project delivery
Dudley Advance II was built to house a new centre for advanced building technologies; it made perfect sense for this building to use IPI
-
Comment
Construction industry gossip: Die hard
Why Interserve’s shareholders voted to bury the company is something of a mystery, but at least the coffee was good
-
Comment
Scope of delay-related losses
Philip Duffield on an important ruling allowing recovery of delay losses in addition to liquidated damages
-
Comment
Time at Large: Time for a rethink
The orthodox view on how employer delay affects its entitlement to damages has been shown to be quite wrong
-
Comment
Clients drive change – and the government is the biggest of them all
Our industry is collaborating more, but what’s really needed is for clients to drive change in the supply chain, writes Turner Townsend’s Bill McElroy
-
Comment
Is Brexit inadvertently taking the industry closer to Latham’s vision?
Brexit’s unusual visibility is forcing a different approach to inflationary risk management, writes Mace Cost Consultancy’s Steven Mason
-
Comment
Staged completion: It's just a phase
Stephanie Canham explains why staged completion must be handled with care
-
Comment
Interserve administration: do main contractors need rescuing from themselves?
Interserve continues for now, while Andrew Davies takes the helm at Kier
-
Comment
Great news – Interserve isn’t another Carillion (yet)
The collapse into administration is bad news for shareholders but at least it isn’t sunk
-
Comment
Should we prepare for more project downtime as uncertainty grips the sector?
Project shutdowns are relatively common in the construction industry - so being armed with the right intelligence is vital
-
Comment
Is digital the new infrastructure?
Will Squires explains how data and new technology is helping airports meet the growing demand for air travel
-
Comment
Construction industry gossip: Tough at the top
Costain boss Andrew Wyllie on the possibly delayed Bond Street station and an ex-Crossrail boss suffers the humiliation of a Chris Graying endorsement
-
Comment
Are these new models of housing delivery the future?
It’s all a little topsy turvy but the housing sector suggests that the traditional domains of single specialism expertise are increasingly of the past
-
Comment
Case in focus: Ove Arup & Partners International Ltd vs Coleman Bennett International Consultancy plc
Ted Lowery considers an enforcement and why one party’s jurisdictional challenges were precluded
-
Comment
Final account disputes - last but not least
Disputes over the final account can drag on for years, but the latest NEC and FIDIC contracts can help avoid that happening
-
Comment
The joy of work - the workplace should be a place of happiness
Well-designed, well-built workplaces mean happy workers – which is good for staff retention and recruitment, says Paul Patenall