Opinion – Page 315
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CommentFuoco! Fuoco!
Thanks to Rob Kirkaldy of Spectrum Acoustic Consultants for this site scene in Sorrento, southern Italy. Insurers of a nervous disposition may want to look away
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CommentBeware Greeks bearing gifts
One lesson the Connaught story tells us is that clients are too ready to accept prices that aren’t sustainable
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CommentLess really is less
To retrofit a building for energy efficiency, it’s no good tinkering with insulation or installing a heat pump. Only whole-structure solutions will change our future
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CommentThe industry that played with fire
David Hayhow gives an insurer’s-eye view of the row over whether timber frame is a safe construction material. As you might expect, he has some fundamental concerns
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CommentIgnore CDM regs at your peril
Complying with these health and safety rules is costly, but there are practical solutions and the alternative is just not worth it
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CommentWe may have 53,000 more jobs but it's not all good news
The problem is that the jobs data makes a mockery of the governtment's output statistics
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CommentWe've failed economics
You will no doubt recall the talk from David Cameron during the election about the big society that was to replace big government
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CommentWhat makes a good lawyer?
The Legal 500 came out this month but how much can such directories really tell us about construction law firms
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CommentInfrastructure is 40% bigger than we thought
The latest ONS figures are worrying as they mean we've measured output and got it wrong in a big way
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CommentFreedom fighter: Toby Young interview
Author Toby Young is one of the first parents to try to found a free school - partly, it seems, in an effort to alienate as many architects as possible. Emily Wright asked him why
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CommentHansom: Move over Sherlock
Building’s supersleuth uncovers the truth behind celebrity interviews, appeals for help in identifying a missing person, tails the RICS/QS row and meets a double murderer
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CommentWhy I'm convinced by free schools: Free-range children
Now the dead hand of central government has been prised from our throats, we can build schools in a way that is excitingly new - and strangely old-fashioned
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The worst-laid plans
Your excellent Brickonomics blog entry (23 February, building.co.uk) highlights the sheer naivity of those putting forward this New Utopia planning system.
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CommentThe silent QSs
Are Building readers aware of the implications of the takeover of Davis Langdon by Aecom?
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CommentStorytime: Wilfred and the chisel
At Bristol’s Kingsdown Council school in 1946, I joined Mr Bowell’s woodwork class. He was a quietly-spoken man in a carpenter’s work coat
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Winds of change
I read with great interest the report published by Scottish Renewables, highlighting the huge potential for job creation in the offshore wind generation industry over the next decade.
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Turning the heat on fire report
In your article “Insurers call for urgent probe into timber-frame fire risk” (27 August, page 9) you state that the UK Timber Frame Association dismissed the findings of the government’s report on fire safety
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Count the costs
I read with interest the article by Mr Justice Akenhead (3 September, page 47)
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Don't look up
Rebecca Shorter is a member of the construction team at solicitor Cripps Harries Hall, who are “all big fans” of Building’s health and safety blunders.
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CommentInternational schools market: If you build it, they will buy it
If you want to carry on building schools for the future, develop a cheaper product that you can sell to poorer countries that are desperate for decent classrooms