Opinion – Page 325

  • Graham Kean
    Comment

    Emergency Budget: impact on built assets

    2010-06-22T09:10:00Z

    The new Budget’s efficiency measures and tax rises aim to address the deficit, but what does it mean for built assets?

  • Comment

    Existing contracts are next coalition target

    2010-06-18T17:49:00Z

    Government says it will renegotiate key contracts by 2011

  • Comment

    New look output data show sharp pain in repair and maintenance sector

    2010-06-18T16:40:00Z

    New figures for output show that the construction industry taking a beating in the first quarter

  • Ty Goddard
    Comment

    Ty Goddard: Improving our education infrastructure

    2010-06-18T06:37:00Z

    Money may be tighter than a camel in a sandstorm, but we still have to improve our education infrastructure somehow. Ty Goddard gives a few pointers as to what we might do

  • Croydon: the  RIBA’s fault?
    Comment

    Croydon vs the Coliseum

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest former RIBA president Maxwell Hutchinson’s Wonders & Blunders (4 June, page 24)

  • Comment

    A fraud-free Games

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    In response to your recent piece, “The Salami Olympics” (28 May, page 54), the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has, since the very start of the project, been aware of the potential exposure to fraud of large construction projects

  • Comment

    Not in anyone's back yard ...

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    It is great to see that something is finally being done about “garden grabbing”

  • Comment

    So where then?

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    It seems to me that only Brian Berry can see further than the end of his nose (Government plans to stop developers building homes on gardens, 9 June, Building.co.uk)

  • Comment

    Storing up trouble

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    We need to reduce carbon emissions now, not in 10, 20 or 50 years’ time if we are to have an impact on global warming

  • Comment

    The door had already closed

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    I am writing regarding the article entitled “As one door closes …” (4 June, page 30)

  • Comment

    What twerps we are ...

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Having only now found time to read the 21 May issue of Building, and sat here in my Antwerp office, I feel compelled to point out that the man “living the high life” up an aerial mast in Antwerp is in Belgium and not Holland as your caption states!

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    Scoop!

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Thanks to Alan Robson of Innov8 Safety Solutions for spotting this novel use of an excavator at the Salford Quays development in Manchester. I’m sure it’s a great way to travel …

  • Comment

    Hansom: All or nothing

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    While Prince Charles bemoans Western society and the HCA brings back prohibition, one architectural practice is virtually bathing in booze and the World Cup is, frankly, getting out of hand

  • Comment

    Budget 2010: Nervously waiting

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    What the industry hopes for from the emergency budget

  • Visual Arts Facility, Colchester
    Comment

    What brought Banner down

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Why did a well-regarded medium-sized contractor, which began the boom with £9m in the bank, lose £65m in turnover over eight years, and enter administration this month?

  • Comment

    My digital life: Peter Murray

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    What’s your favourite app?

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    False economies

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Experian is predicting a slight upturn for 2011 and 2012, but that’s predicated on continued recovery in the private sector and no more than £5bn cuts in public spending. That’s optimistic

  • Amanda Levete
    Comment

    Up for the cup

    2010-06-17T18:05:00Z

    Goal celebrations are brilliant expressions of national identity (but not you, Clint Dempsey). How does architecture reflect where a nation has come from and where it’s going, asks Amanda Levete

  • Ike Ijeh
    Comment

    John Nash joins the iPhone revolution

    2010-06-17T12:57:54.100Z

    The London Festival of Architecture kicks off with an ingenious new iPhone application celebrating one of London's greatest urban spectacles.

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    Building buys a pint … for Chandler KBS

    2010-06-16T15:46:00Z

    The memory of Thierry Henry’s handball seems to still cause noel physical pain