More Comment – Page 251
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CommentDropping targets for renewable energy is not the solution
Government claims that higher cost savings could be achieved if markets are left to their own devices could have risky results
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CommentMy digital life … Chris Birch
The Hilson Moran director of sustainability on treadmills, listening to Elbow, and why intra-office email should be banned
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CommentThe onward march of technology
BIM is transforming the way we build and the way we share and control information. Its progress is irresistible and anyone wanting to win work should embrace it
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CommentWho’s responsible for making the Green Deal work?
The government should have realised long ago that small firms were best placed to deliver its flagship scheme
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CommentBIM: Quit talking, what we need is action!
I believe we remain no closer to achieving our 2016 BIM goals than we were in 2012
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CommentThe decline and fall of architecture
The first of three blogs on the role of architecture in the modern econony examines the causes of the profession’s fall from grace
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CommentWhat can Boris Johnson learn from NYC's outgoing mayor?
The Big Apple’s architecture, infrastructure and public realm have been transformed by Michael Bloomberg
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CommentConstruction 2025: Looking for a roadmap
Construction 2025 reminds us of the direction of travel but what’s needed now is a clear plan on how the industry can get to where it needs to be
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CommentOpportunity continues to beckon in Russia
Russia provides a long-term opportunity for UK construction, despite the market’s drawbacks
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CommentNEC: Campaign for plain English
The NEC was supposed to move from legal language to something more practical at project level. But a case from last year shows what can happen when courts are left to interpret the contract
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CommentSurfing the waves
Any surfer dude will tell you that every seventh wave is a big one, and so it is with the value of UK construction and building shares
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CommentA campus is a neighbourhood
If university buildings are designed as siloed developments, they will never be more than the sum of their parts
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CommentDesigning fast, building well – the Chinese way
Maintaining design quality in China’s young and bullish culture is difficult but achievable
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CommentThere's method behind Labour's attack on builders
Proposed planning changes to promote smaller sites could help deliver more homes
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CommentADR: RSVP or face costs sanctions
It is simply not an option for parties to stick their heads in the sand regarding alternative dispute resolution
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CommentAndrew Mitchell MP vs News Group Newspapers Limited: Stricter approach to relief from sanctions
Sanctions were imposed on the MP due to a failure to submit cost budgets an adequate space of time before the case management hearing
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CommentDoing the robot
For an industry still, largely, employing the same methods of construction as it did five decades ago, advances in technology represent an opportunity to explore more efficient ways of working
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CommentStill building on weak foundations
Never again, said the civil servants running the programme. But the truth is that the reliance of social housing on cross-subsidy has grown since, not diminished