Opinion – Page 447
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CommentHansom The age of chivalry
A world in which property developers still offer their coats to damsels in distress, a knight of the realm remembers how to behave appropriately, and an architectural practice whisks its staff off to Paris
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Barker MCT
“Let’s meet at Nineteen Below in the Crowne Plaza hotel – we did the fit-outs for the place,” Melanie told me.
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CommentA bad case of the wobbles
We’ve known for some time now that 2008 is unlikely to be as golden a year as 2007.
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CommentRoot of the matter
I was intrigued by the construction of the courtyard and buildings around the giant plane tree at the Larmenier & Sacred Heart primary school in west London (2 November, page 58).
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Reasons to be fearful
The article “Big drop in construction orders puts housing plans at risk” (9 November, page 12) reported that an 8% fall in construction orders and 12% decline in the housing sector has cast doubt over whether Gordon Brown will hit his ambitious housebuilding targets.
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Not in front of the readers …
Will Alsop and Roger Madelin may well have used the words credited to them (9 November, pages 11 and 27) and we may well all work in a robust industry and hear them every day.
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CommentWorth their weight in what?
There is a consensus now that the quality of adjudication is fine, but the same cannot be said about the cost of hiring an adjudicator. Just ask the clients that got a bill from one chap for £30,000
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Tell us all your secrets
Did you know that the Freedom of Information Act could apply to your PFI contracts, and that all the obvious reasons why it might be a bad idea to disclose such information may be without force?
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CommentPut paid to those with no scruples
10 things you need to know about … abuses of the Construction Act
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Multiplex Constructions vs PC Harrington
Multiplex is facing a legal battle with contractor PC Harrington over a £45m concrete works contract
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Melville Dundas Ltd (in receivership) and Others vs George Wimpey UK Ltd and Others
This is the first time that the HGCRA has reached the House of Lords. The dispute here, which related to the payment part of that legislation, highlighted the tension between an employer’s payment obligations and the impact on those obligations of the contractor going into administration. Here, on 2 May ...
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CommentChips with everything
Instead of paying thousands to generate electricity on site, we should be incorporating energy storage into buildings. And Bill Watts says we need spend peanuts to do it
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CommentOurTube: Inside Gleeds TV
So what happens when a bunch of construction consultants suddenly find themselves running a television station. And why would they ever want to?
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CommentWonders & blunders
Two takes on modernity this week, one a persuasive discourse on industry and craft, the other a ‘crude and inarticulate’ shout
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Back issues Preserving charming rusticity from the onslaught of utilitarian townies
November 1880 – Hamlets into suburbs
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CommentHansom Self-harmers
BDP masterplans its own office out of existence, Banyard’s managing director gets himself into trouble on the domestic front and who knows what QSs will do to themselves in the name of pop art?
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CommentFinding Foster
Type his name into any search engine and you’ll come up with some unusual takes on Foster’s work. Chloë McCulloch finds out what he means to a variety of branding gurus, expats and geeks