All Open Mic articles – Page 3
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CommentGreen retrofitting: Home help
The government’s aim to make housing greener is laudable, but imposing ever more stringent regulations won’t help. Linden Homes’ idea of a central fund for retrofitting may do
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CommentEmployment and parenthood: Bringing up baby
Tell a prospective employer that you’d like children or prefer to work part-time so you can look after your child and they’re likely to roll their eyes. So is it best not to mention it?
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CommentDevelopment: The cashless society
Yes, money is tight, yes, the challenges are many, but local authorities that work with others and use their assets creatively can still build great places to live
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CommentEnter the Pimby
Forced to choose between economic stagnation and new development in their backyards, communities are abandoning the nimbyism of the boom years
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CommentMore than the tea run: Construction graduates on the dole
Too many construction graduates are on the dole. This is talent that our industry is going to need when the upturn comes. So let’s nurture it
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BIM: Designing tomorrow
BIM is the word on everybody’s lips - but do we really know what it is? David Light says we won’t make the most of building information modelling until we start asking the right questions
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CommentSecurity threat
Never mind government targets and legislation; the risk that energy supplies may simply dry up is becoming the key driver in the sustainability agenda, says James Gray
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CommentGreat leaders of our time
The industry, and indeed the world, is on the move and to stay on top chief executives have to predict where it’s going. The successful could even win a Building Award
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Once upon a time in the West
We live in turbulent times, with the ascendancy of the East our most direct challenge. But reports of the death of the West have been greatly exaggerated
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CommentAsking for the moon
A lot of offices designed pre-recession and waiting to be built won’t meet the toughest environmental standards. Once we start building again, we have to aim higher
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CommentOpen mike: One for all
Each profession in this industry has at least one body to represent it, which just widens the gulfs between us all. What if we set up a collective body instead?
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FeaturesOpen mike: Early learning
If you care about school design, you’ve probably thrown up your hands in despair by now. But John Lyall is optimistic we can build on the achievements of recent years
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Open mike: Stop the world – I want to get off
Most architects find new work through word of mouth. So the more circles you move in, the more people will talk – and the dizzier you’ll become
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CommentHousebuilding needs to learn the lessons of the 1930s
In the 1930s we built around 300,000 homes a year in the face of a worldwide recession. Why are things so different this time around?
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Open mike: The good old days
The Property Services Agency did more good than harm, despite what its detractors - and the state of public sector procurement - may suggest. What we need now, says Steve Hale, is a new, streamlined version
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CommentBack to schools
With Sebastian James’ review of school procurement due imminently, Richard Simmons sets out his hopes and fears for the future of school design
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CommentLocal authorities and housebuilding
Local authorities are using their new powers to cancel planned housing schemes, but that doesn’t mean housebuilders should just sit back, says Chris Cobbold
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CommentThe grim reality of life as an architect
Watch programmes like Grand Designs and you’d think architecture was a glamorous, highly paid and creative profession. Rot, says Susanna Clapham
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CommentThe RICS: Are we being served?
Open mike: QSs have little in common with estate agents yet we share the same professional body. We have to break free and form an organisation that truly represents us
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NewsTwo arms tied behind our back
Open mike It is in the interests of both landlords and tenants to improve a property’s energy efficiency - but they won’t until we change the law that constrains them
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