Paul Morrell
CommentBIM: The new way of doing business
A 50% adoption rate is an astonishingly high level of engagement
CommentSlip slidin’ away
The government’s decisions to ‘renew’ the CLC and scrap the chief construction adviser role have dismayed the industry
CommentLatham was right about partnering
… it’s just taking a long time for the construction industry to do anything about it
CommentCutting carbon: The long and winding road
At Ecobuild this week, the Green Construction Board launched a routemap on how the government can meet the 2050 carbon reduction target. Fasten your seat belts …
CommentMaking a virtue of necessity
The government’s Construction Strategy has led some to ask what’s different this time round. But they forget that until now the industry hasn’t changed because it hasn’t had to
CommentMorrell's first year: How to be popular
Paul Morrell’s first year at Westminster has confirmed that construction is not the most well-liked boy in the class. But to win friends, he says, it just takes confidence and conversation
CommentTwo into one won’t go
The public sector is as diverse and complex as the private sector, says Paul Morrell. Treating the two as if they were the same will stop us building a collaborative relationship between them
CommentThe end of life as we know it
Waste in the building process makes us a costly place to build, but the deficit is a spur to act on this
CommentThe next 40 years starts now
The government’s proposals for a low carbon economy are going to keep construction busy for years – if it can develop the leadership and the vision to respond to them
- News
David Morrell
David Morrell, formerly Chairman of Mitchell Construction, died on Friday 12 January, at the age of 92. He leaves two daughters, Christine and Judith, and a son, Paul (former senior partner of Davis Langdon), who writes below of his father's contribution to the industry.
- Features
If we built Holyrood again …
As those involved in the misconstruction of the Scottish parliament building anxiously await the findings of the Fraser Inquiry, Paul Morrell of Davis Langdon, the QS on the £431m job, investigates what lessons we’ve learned from the whole sorry episode – and which old ones we should never have forgotten
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Are you being served?
When people design their own offices, they create a very different product from that typically offered by spec developers. And thereby hangs a tale
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Are you being served?
When people design their own offices, they create a very different product from that typically offered by spec developers. And thereby hangs a tale
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What we're all about
What distinguished professionals from tradesmen was their assumption of social superiority backed up by guaranteed fee rates. Now those have gone, what's left?