All Leader articles – Page 30
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CommentHard times
At the time of writing, the Royal Society for Arts was planning a debate on the question: “What kind of economy and society will emerge from the new age of austerity?”
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CommentThe vision thing
“The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. The challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime.” So said Barack Obama as he became president-elect of the United States of America on Wednesday.
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CommentThe latest death toll
On 28 March 2006, Lord Hunt, the then health and safety minister, made what many hoped would be a seminal speech in the struggle to make British sites safer.
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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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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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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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CommentMissing our chance
The response on all sides of the housing industry was the same: it’s the mortgage market, stupid!
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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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CommentDo the right thing
It’s just a coincidence, of course, but the opaque sky over Britain this week accurately reflects the overcast mood in much of the construction industry.
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CommentInnocence abroad
Schools are out, summer is here and the mind naturally turns to jetting off (or, for the more environmentally squeamish, catching a train) to foreign climes
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CommentPublic madness
Not another one! That is the initial reaction to the news that the Rafael Viñoly-designed visual arts centre in Colchester languishes unfinished while its contractor and client squabble over the escalating budget.
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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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CommentSinging the blues
What a diabolical week. The swingeing job cuts – 4,000 across publicly quoted companies alone – make painful reading and all the signs are that things are going to get an awful lot worse.
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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