More Comment – Page 686
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CommentThe scrabble for cash
Four years ago, when construction was comfortably ensconced at the old Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, the government ran a scheme called Partners in Innovation.
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Wonders & blunders
RIBA president-elect Jack Pringle vows that a former icon will rise again but would rather see a Holborn hotel buried without trace
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CommentGetting up to speed
When we started putting together our preview of 2005, we didn’t pre-judge the issues.
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Doorstepping
James Moody took on the managing director’s role at the newly reorganised Eastern region of housebuilder Crest Nicholson three months ago, and he had to hit the ground running. Not only is he managing existing sites – he also had to find himself an office
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CommentGlory days
Our building sites are bloodless descendants of the sites of the roaring 50s, when men were men, lavatories were buckets and passers-by were fair game
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CommentLet’s be Belgian
Our system of project insurance wastes about £1bn a year, and invariably leads to the courts. Why can’t we have project-based insurance, as they do on the Continent?
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CommentKindly leave the stage
It’s an accepted rule that if an adjudicator throws out a claim, the losing party can’t rush out and hire another one. But in this case, that’s exactly what happened …
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Tell it to the judge
All forms of dispute resolution involve a scary degree of uncertainty, complexity or cost. Now a proposed shake-up of the courts promises a better alternative
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Why bother?
In response to your recent editorial about encouraging young women into the construction industry I must ask, why?
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… On a more optimistic note
Getting role models in the industry to talk directly to young men and women is an effective way of changing attitudes, as suggested by Victoria Caesar (Letters, 12 November, page 36).
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Learning curve
Two brief points in connection with your article on my “re-education” (12 November, page 44).
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Apprenticeships are thriving
May I congratulate your magazine for focusing on, over the past few issues, the immensely important topic of vocational training.
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A tricky treaty
Greg Trickey misunderstands the European Union constitution (12 November, page 37), the legal threat of which will be no greater to the UK’s “royal” chartered bodies than to the Crown Prosecution Service, the Royal Mail or indeed the royal family itself.
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Target practice
In the article “Fatality rate overshadows HSE’s healthy living plan” (15 November, page 17), some confusion crept in, which resulted in the views I expressed being misrepresented.
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CommentOpen mike: It ain’t rocket science
There’s a pretty obvious way to avoid escalating M&E costs, points out consultant Chris Haley – and it’s not by ignoring the problem and hoping it’ll go away, you idiots
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CommentThe path ahead
Having been involved in the construction industry in various capacities since 1965, I find it hard to recall a time when there have been greater opportunities for the sector.