Opinion – Page 309
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CommentInbox special advisers
Tony Pidgley, Caroline Buckingham and John Bale take the government aside for a bit of a chat
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CommentExtreme mowing
Nick Rhodes, of Oxfordshire housing association Sovereign Vale, sent in this photograph taken by one of his tenants. “This is a novel way to cut the top of a hedge,” he says.Email your “favourite” health and safety pictures to building@ubm.com or upload them to the Building Network at network.building.co.uk. The ...
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CommentThe home front
Nick Raynsford If public indignation at the coalition’s housing policies were not enough to demonstrate their unpopularity, the doubts of backbenchers within the ruling parties should be
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CommentWonders & blunders with Sarah Beeny
Property guru Sarah Beeny was transported to childhood by a treehouse, but yanked back into the present by the demolition of a cherished structure
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CommentGreen Deal needs both carrot and stick
Requirement for landlords to improve housing performance at the tenants request shows government is serious about on green policy
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CommentConstruction industry is forecast to face a second double-digit decline
Forecast from Hewes & Associates suggest industry will decline by nearly 6% next year
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Five things you never knew about Julian Hakes
The architect reveals a side project that could end up eclipsing his building work
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Nickleby FM vs Somerfield Stores
This case reveals the dangers of not having a construction contract in writing
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Comment10 things to know about construction output
The latest estimates point to a spurt in activity, so what’s really going on?
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CommentWhy Cabe must be judged a failure
Ultimately, the design watchdog was both powerless and corrupted by the illusion of power
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CommentMoving the clocks forward not back
This weekend sees the clocks go back, but moving them permanently forward could cut energy use in buildings.
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CommentIntegrated design and construction: Divided we fall
Our industry is fragmented between those who do the real work on site and those who live off its adversarial culture. Integrating the two factions is our only hope
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CommentWhat Dan Labbad told us
Labbad seems to want Bovis to emulate companies such as Berkeley Group, which are able to change their strategy on a sixpence and leave threepence change
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CommentHansom: Spin doctors
It’s all about image this week, as the government commiserates with the people, HOK tries to quash rumours and Gerald Ronson turns out not to be the lovable, big-hearted old softie we thought he was
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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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CommentHome improvements
Regarding the article “Osborne’s axe fells schools and housing” (22 October, page 9), you’re right that we’re going to need to attract a huge amount of private sector finance into the refurbishment of our existing housing stock over the next decade
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In the detail
On first analysis, it looks as though capital spending has borne the brunt of the cuts to next year’s Scottish budget announced in the UK spending review.
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There is another way
I read with interest the article by Malcolm Taylor in Building (22 October, page 33). His dissatisfaction with the RICS expresses the feelings of many of its QS members.