More Comment – Page 228
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CommentGoing round in circles
We’ve all heard the mantra: ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’, but should we be doing more?
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CommentDr Sean Tompkins picks 'What next for BIM?'
The CEO of RICS picks his favourite article published in Building in the last 12 months
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CommentRupert Choat picks '2014 predictions: Wishful thinking'
Looking back at those 2014 predictions of Ann Minogue: Summer’s musings
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CommentMcLennan Architects Limited vs Jeremy Jones and Helen Roberts: Inspection of electronic devices
This case, before Mr Justice Akenhead in the TCC, provided guidance in situations involving applications for access to specific electronic data and associated metadata
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CommentNew homes insurance and lost deposits?
A recent TCC judgment involves claims by a number of parties in respect of lost deposits paid for new flats
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CommentHansom: Heads and tales
Land Securities’ New Ludgate office development brings up tales of headless maidens, bear-baiting and rhinoceroses, while a PV expert suggests that solar panels across the UK are facing the wrong way
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CommentBIM is getting lost in translation
Having a common industry platform, like Australia does, would go some way to solving BIM problems
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CommentLondon infrastructure: The long game
The London Infrastructure Plan 2050 will hopefully address some of the chronic shortfalls in investment
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CommentOne direction
As Building reveals the response to our Agenda 15 initiative, our construction manifesto for the next government has started to take shape
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CommentIs the long hot summer causing green policies to wilt?
I’m desperate for some holiday reading on green policy but it seems to be elusive
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CommentA case for compensation
A case in Ireland considered some of the clauses surrounding compensation events in the NEC3 suite of contracts
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CommentFree our regions to thrive
Boosting regions beyond the M25 could benefit the UK economy as a whole
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CommentThe calm before the storm
Westminster will soon be a flurry of activity before the general election - and construction is at the heart of the public policy debate
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CommentThe legend of the three great information tribes
Legend has it that the CAD, BIM and GIS tribes don’t play well together – but here’s a way forward
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CommentThe Freedom of Information minefield
Parties are using the Freedom of Information Act to strengthen their positions, so be aware when working with a public body that it may have to disclose information you’d rather it didn’t
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CommentAn Egan lesson I'm applying to BIM
The purpose is to make money from satisfying customers, and that goes for BIM too
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CommentMega deals and learning from the past
This period of merger mania should prompt us to look back at lessons from the past
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CommentCity planning in the Middle East
These vast cities rising from the sand can’t just be about bling
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CommentKeeping the cash flowing
The fair payment charter is clearly going to need some teeth and enforcement powers but who the teeth will belong to and what the enforcement measures will look like remain to be seen
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CommentSharing out the risks
BIM is supposed to help eliminate design risk but the different parties on a project must make sure that their responsibilities and liabilities are clearly defined