All Letters articles – Page 71

  • Comment

    The campaigns already begun

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    While I support the intention of your 99% campaign, the article shows a lack of awareness of what has been happening in the field of improving the energy efficiency and reducing the carbon emissions from existing buildings in the UK over the past 10 years.

  • Comment

    A fresher Building

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Congratulations on the new format. I think the improvements are all very positive and give a much fresher feel to the magazine.

  • Can you identify this building to win a £25 drinks voucher?
    Comment

    In the detail

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Can you identify this building to win a £25 drinks voucher?

  • Comment

    Educations what you need

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    In addition to the ideas listed in your article, can I suggest that creating awareness of energy use and waste through energy handbooks could contribute to erergy savings?

  • Comment

    Students: free money here

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Students who read your piece on graduate debt and pay (23 June, page 68) may be interested to hear about the Inspire Scholarships scheme.

  • Comment

    Whither Sir Godfrey?

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    I know that you will have received countless observations on who was left out of the Building Hall of Fame, but I have to express my disappointment, having joined Wimpey as a trainee QS in 1963, about the omission of Sir Godfrey Mitchell, when Sir John Laing and Lord Taylor ...

  • Comment

    Hip to be squarer

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    I wanted to pass on our congratulations on the new design of Building.

  • Thanks to Marcus Wroe for this one. He writes: “A friend of mine saw these two making some repairs on a wire over a busy road in Shanghai and just had to take a photo of them. What, no method statement?!”
    Comment

    Useful things, ladders

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Two cracking ladder-related health & safety blunders this week …

  • 99% campaign
    Comment

    Time for a stock-take

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    I am certainly of the opinion that we must place greater emphasis on the need to improve the energy efficiency of the existing building stock (23 June, page 30).

  • Comment

    We should all be certified

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Energy certification for all buildings is essential.

  • Comment

    Capita Symonds

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    On 12 May 2006, an article appeared in Building titled "Capita Symonds: two years old, but growing fast".

  • Birmingham’s triumph: Brummies can take pride in Selfridges
    Comment

    Here's to the ‘have-a-go' city

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Your broadside against Birmingham (26 May, pages 44-48) has caused ructions at Council House and in the property community.

  • The worst breach, as voted by you
    Comment

    Safety first

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    The competition to find the worst breach of health and safety published on Building's letters page in the past nine months has a winner.

  • Comment

    Let's mobilise the forces

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    As a non-profit energy agency we support your 99% campaign.

  • Comment

    One for the team

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Congratulations on the new-look Building.

  • It takes a certain kind of bravery to straddle a plank of wood that is resting on a ladder that is resting between a narrow window sill and a strip of railings.
    Comment

    The perfect window seat

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    It takes a certain kind of bravery to straddle a plank of wood that is resting on a ladder that is resting between a narrow window sill and a strip of railings.

  • Comment

    In praise of Ray

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    I have been interested in tracking the responses to Ray O'Rourke's comments that a building site was not a "place where women fit" (19 May, page 14).

  • Comment

    Water torture

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Every week brings news of another drought order and complaints that water companies are profiteering while failing to tackle leaks.

  • Comment

    Bad reaction

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    I couldn't agree less with the articles "Edge of darkness" and "Seconds to midnight" (26 May, pages 26-27 and 32-34). As Amory Lovins said recently, "If nuclear power is the answer, then you've asked the wrong question".

  • Comment

    Success breeds inertia

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    What do Ray O'Rourke's view of women in construction and Multiplex's views on how to work with subcontractors have in common?