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CommentGetting to grips with an ageing workforce
How do we retain the experience that older staff bring?
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CommentEmbracing the customs
The nascent custom-build sector should not be viewed as a threat by volume housebuilders. Rather, it is a chance for them to sell more homes
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CommentRubbish in, rubbish out
What’s the use of different energy prediction software packages producing such varied results?
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CommentTechnology is a wonderful thing - but only if you know how to use it
Research into consumer attitudes to low and zero carbon technologies reveals contains some important lessons for the industry
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CommentThose housebuilding numbers: Joy, reality, then annoyance
The increase in housebuilding doesn’t look that impressive when you plot it on a graph
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CommentPlant hire prices dip slightly despite upturn in construction
A look at the latest data from the Office for National Statistics
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CommentWhen planning co-operation spells paralysis
The government’s well-intentioned introduction of a ‘duty to co-operate’ between councils is a serious problem
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CommentWhat does the Lewisham Hospital decision mean for the NHS estate?
Services at Lewisham Hospital were saved by the recent Court of Appeal decision, but at what cost to future capital investment?
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CommentConstruction pantomime offers seasonal cheer
While subbies, contractors and architects are all reporting rising workloads, the pressure is still on for those at the back end of the supply chain
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CommentCan housing be sent into space?
The drive to densify cities helps neither families nor social mobility
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CommentWe need to talk about BIM
BIM is famously the magic formula that will get the industry working together in peace and harmony. But it looks awfully like a way of shifting risk onto subcontractors …
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CommentHave we wasted the latest good crisis?
Exhortation changes little in this industry - challenges like mass retrofitting of housing depends on regulation
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CommentLetters of intent: Start as you mean to go on
The ongoing dispute between Volkerfitzpatrick and Keller shows the dangers of failing to back up a letter of intent with a finalised, formal subcontract
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CommentHeat networks aren't always a hot idea
It’s assumed combined heat and power plants for residential schemes reduce fuel poverty, but it may not be that simple
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CommentWill Part L 2013 really make any difference?
The transition to the new standards didn’t work well last time, it won’t this time
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CommentEnergy infrastructure is fundamentally local
Both construction and energy markets are too centralised and not equiped to tackle climate change
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CommentHarnessing the hatred of energy firms
Energy efficiency is not very cool but neither is giving all your money to the big six
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CommentDoosan Babcock Limited vs Comercializadora de Equipos y Materiales Mabe Limitada: On demand guarantees
This case, before Mister Justice Edwards-Stuart, concerns whether the right to make a call under an on-demand guarantee is qualified by the terms of the underlying contract
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CommentShale gas and the invisible gorilla
Politicians should focus on energy efficiency and renewables, not distract themselves with shale gas
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CommentSix graphs showing construction firms' pain from 2008 to 2012
The story revealed by data from this week’s Annual Business Survey