More Comment – Page 330
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CommentBuilding the Olympics: Key moments
Building looks back over the major events that helped to create the most extraordinary construction project the capital has ever seen
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CommentRestraint not extravagance
This year’s Stirling prize nominees reflect the hard times but one leaves a powerful lasting impression
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CommentConstruction industry forecasters are of one mind: It’s worse than we thought
It also illustrates just why construction leaders have stepped up their campaign to get government to boost building
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CommentThe new CIOB contract: read and then comment ...
Far from being overcomplicated, the new CIOB complex contract is as simple as it can be without becoming ineffective
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CommentArbitration clauses: Merit Process Engineering Ltd vs Balfour Beatty Engineering Services Ltd
It is essential that parties agree on the price to be paid for works under a contract, or at least agree on a mechanism for determining the price subsequently
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CommentShovels at the ready
New government initiatives show plans to attract private investment to the industry have not worked out as hoped
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CommentArchitects get twitchy over prospects in private housing as industry optimism wanes
The RIBA future trends survey index took a hit in June falling from 13 to 2
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CommentBuilding buys a pint... for Formation Architects
Housing, London and the Shard are discussed at The Island Queen, Islingon, London
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CommentMy digital life … Borja Goyarrola
The director of ALL Design reveals the app he’s in awe of and how he keeps up with innovative digital trends
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CommentCIOB complex contract: Unpickupable
The new CIOB contract: Another standard contract that nobody will ever have the time or energy to read
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CommentThe Construction Act: Lost in translation?
As we await the first court judgment on the Construction Act’s amended payment rules, questions remain over whether the law says exactly what legislators meant it to …
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CommentWhose privilege is it anyway?
Advice given to a firm may be protected by legal professional privilege, but things can get messy when there’s a conflict of interest between the company and its directors
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CommentThe good in wood ...
LCA system should include sequestered carbon stored in the wood plus the inherent renewable nature of the material in question
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CommentPensions: Cleaning up our toxic legacy
Construction accounts for £34.4bn of the UK’s final salary pension deficit. How can the government restore confidence in workplace schemes?
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CommentHansom: A spot of mischief
This week, Labour’s shadow construction minister reveals his inner child, Tessa Jowell recalls Howard Shiplee’s feminist leanings, Building fails to cut it with a mallet and a saucy video for … paint
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CommentJam tomorrow but what about today?
This week’s announcement of £9.4bn of railway spending is great news. But we need to invest in housing to get out of the current slump
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CommentAll roads lead to London, Vince
Business secretary vince cable and housing minister Grant Shapps search for a boost to housing supply
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CommentGovernment should be fixing its policy credibility rather than boasting about its fiscal credibility
The Government is beginning to more clearly recognise the urgency of getting construction back into growth