All articles by Denise Chevin – Page 5
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CommentGet the mechanics right
The delays to the Learning and Skills Council’s £5bn programme to upgrade further education colleges is a stark reminder of the reality gap between the government’s desire to accelerate public programmes and its ability to actually make this happen
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CommentNot a problem, a solution
Like collaborative working, being sustainable was a child of the boom years.
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CommentHappy new year (yes, really)
Sorry, folks, but joyful prospects for 2009 are thin on the ground
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CommentThe path to power
With most markets sectors descending vertically, work on a third generation of nuclear power plants can’t begin soon enough.
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CommentBetter than nothing
So much was expected of the pre-Budget report that if Alistair Darling had opened up the Bank of England’s vaults and invited construction firms to help themselves, there would have been a few commentators arguing that he should have gone further.
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CommentWhat is to be done?
Do you remember the joke doing the rounds in the last recession? What do you say to an architect? “Big Mac and fries, please.”
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CommentThe state is back
It is three years since the National Federation of Builders began highlighting the woeful service its members receive from utilities companies.
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FeaturesIt’s a balancing act
Last year, employers had one overriding problem to address: how could they recruit/poach/scrounge/bribe enough decent people to handle the endless stream of projects flowing from well-capitalised clients?
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CommentBlowing in the wind
Alistair Darling’s efforts to resuscitate Britain’s financial services sector seem, for the moment at least, to have worked.
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CommentThe Gulf rush
Booming economies, expanding populations and the most ambitious schemes anywhere in the world – the Gulf is undeniably the most exciting destination right now for construction. It’s not only growing at an extraordinary rate as markets around the world crumble, the way the industry works is also evolving almost as ...
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Comment£22m later …
As the mood of the times moves smoothly from neurosis to outright hysteria, the return of the Wembley soap opera is strangely reassuring, in a perverse kind of way.
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CommentSupersizing Cabe
Cabe is happy to condemn the work of ‘commercial’ practices but seems rather reluctant to do the same for the A-listers, such as Rafael Viñoly’s Walkie-talkie
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CommentIn for nasty weather
The financial storm that has been blowing through the banking world for the past year turned into a category-five tornado this week.
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CommentThey’ve finally got it
The government is certainly making political capital out of its successes, with ministers opening new schools up and down the country
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CommentLondon vs Beijing
For now the eyes of the world are filled by afterimages of Beijing, but they will shortly begin turning expectantly towards an area of waste ground in east London.
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CommentHoliday on death row
As those of you involved in running a construction firm will know, it’s never easy to enjoy your summer vacation untroubled by thoughts of what’s going on back in the office.
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CommentThe path to happiness
Happiness, there’s not too much of it around in construction at the moment.
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CommentChina goes to town
China is ravenous for British expertise. And no wonder: in 20 years’ time it could account for more than half of the global market for construction services