Opinion – Page 514

  • Edward Goodwyn
    Comment

    The transfer market

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    This week new rules governing the transfer of employees came into force. Here is a summary of the key changes and how they will affect your business

  • Comment

    The wonder of MIPIM

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    I was amused to read Richard Steer's comment piece in the 17 March issue ("Time to Cannes MIPIM", page 38), as it showcased a wonderful "greatest hits" of the hoary old chestnuts that get wheeled out at this time of year about MIPIM.

  • Comment

    Brum's rush

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Can I set the record straight following your article about Lord Rogers and Birmingham (24 March)?

  • Comment

    Place your bets

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    You ask where research funding should be spent (10 March).

  • Guess the building
    Comment

    In the detail

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Can you identify this building to win a £25 drinks voucher?

  • Hansom
    Comment

    Hansom

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Our correspondent finds the industry criminal, politically incorrect, in denial, championed, deliriously happy and one Allen key short of an Ikea toolkit …

  • Open mike
    Comment

    The real avant-garde

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Far from learning the lessons of failed 1960s modernism, we are poised to make the same mistakes on a grander scale. What we need is a total rethink

  • Almost 60 Dutch and international architects were involved in the development of Borneo Sporenburg, an innovative dense urban housing scheme in Amsterdam’s docklands. It comprises 2500 dwellings and was completed in 2000.
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Social housebuilder Colin Dixon likes Amsterdam's best homes but would love to wield the wrecking ball on London's worst shopping mall

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    The crowds are on the pitch …

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    In this the 12th year of the Building Awards, we are using the occasion to mark two very special 40-year anniversaries.

  • Thomas Lane
    Comment

    Why is Part L so bad?

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Pretty much everyone in the industry agrees that saving energy and cutting carbon emissions from new buildings by 20% is a Good Thing.

  • trapize artists
    Comment

    How To Survive… a CV rewrite

    2006-03-31T07:00:00Z

    There's a fine line between presenting the best possible interpretation of your work and academic history and doing a Jeffery Archer. Amaya Lopez offers some tips on how to stay on the right side of it.

  • ed balls
    Comment

    Brown's number 10

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Three months after everyone thought a recession was inevitable, all the indicators point to a resurgence of growth. Something to do with the Budget perhaps?

  • Comment

    Roofless

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Gowlain Bulding Group Ltd entered into a contract to do some building works at a school. Part of the work included re-roofing a boiler house, which Gowlain intended to subcontract to Full Metal Jacket Ltd. Accordingly, Gowlain supplied FMJ with a simple drawing of the roof and requested FMJ ...

  • Comment

    Today's lesson: don't fail

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Will Alsop was teaching in Vienna while his practice was being sold off. So what lessons did he have for his students about the cruel facts of an architect's life?

  • Andrew Hemsley
    Comment

    Notes for newbies

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Contract administration used to be architects' work but these days, many professions can bid for the job. Here's what the new kids need to know

  • Comment

    … or not enough?

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    … and in this article Laurence Cobb and Tom Wrzesien look at a case where the claim was that he didn't look at it at all. The verdict in both was the same

  • Philip Titchmarsh
    Comment

    Stub out those roll-ups

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    This month European judges ruled that a construction firm that awarded "rolled-up" holiday pay to workers in lieu of paid leave acted unlawfully. Here's why

  • hansom
    Comment

    Hansom

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Grey vote, orange skin, pink porcelain and none-too-green denim star in this week's colourful round-up of construction chatter

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Now for the high jump

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    The honeymoon is most definitely over. ...

  • Comment

    A positive step, but a small one

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    I have read the five proposals in your Reform the Regs manifesto (17 March) and I wholeheartedly agree with them.