All Analysis articles – Page 21
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FeaturesThe road to recovery: Rebuilding after China’s earthquake
British engineering and construction firms are on the front line of China’s efforts to repair the devastation left by May’s earthquake. Stuart Macdonald reports
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FeaturesThe scramble for public sector work
The scramble to enter the public sector has begun. The problem is that it has a rather strict door policy, and if your name is Johnny C Lately, you don’t have much of a chance of getting in. But it’s not impossible
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FeaturesHere’s another four we’ve failed – Training and apprenticeships
Last week, the Strategic Forum set a target of training an extra 13,500 apprentices by 2010. But will the apprenticeship system we’ve got be able to cope? Not if you ask these guys … Roxane McMeeken reports
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FeaturesCan timber frame sites ever be safe?
A fire that ravaged a timber-frame building in Edinburgh last month was the latest in a series of similar incidents that have blighted the industry over the past few years. Thomas Lane examines what is causing this worrying trend and what is being done to curb it
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FeaturesConstruction's next generation: here’s what we think
Construction’s next generation has a lot on its mind – training, sustainability, recruitment, not to mention the OFT inquiry …
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FeaturesRebuilding Trust: The pledges
One month on, the industry is still smarting from the OFT’s accusations of bid rigging. Building calls on all contractors, clients and consultants to join the stand against corruption and to show the OFT that the industry is serious about cleaning up its act
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FeaturesRebuilding Trust: Britain's biggest clients back our campaign
In five weeks’ time, Building is to present the Office of Fair Trading with a list of firms that have backed our Rebuilding Trust campaign. Here, some of Britain’s most important clients tell Emily Wright why they’re doing just that, and why they think contractors and consultants should follow suit
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FeaturesThe plot to escape Erinaceous
When Britain’s fastest growing consultant began to fall apart, the firms it bought had to find a way to avoid sharing its fate. For seven months they fought a hidden war to save their lives. Sarah Richardson found out how six of them pulled it off
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FeaturesRenzo Piano: The man in the high chapel
You may be one of those who think Renzo Piano’s Shard in the City of London is just pie in the sky, but the architect himself has no doubts. Besides, he’s got friends in high places. By Dan Stewart
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FeaturesHays 2008 Consultants' salary and benefits guide
If your staff room looks like this it’s safe to say that employers are still having to do all they can to retain talented staff. David Parsley introduces this year’s consultants’ salary guide with a look at some of the quirkier perks on offer
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FeaturesTick, tick, tick…
International accounting standards that comes in in 2009/10 will drop billions of pounds onto the public sector’s balance sheet. Mark Leftly reports on how that could blow a huge hole through the PFI – and take the nation’s finances with it
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FeaturesTragedy at Tesco
In September 2006 a three-year-old girl was killed when the roof of a Tesco store in Turkey caved in. The retail group blamed the collapse on ‘extreme weather conditions’, but 18 months on, Building has obtained a report filed by senior figures at Tesco soon after that cites poor construction ...
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FeaturesWhat news on the Croisette?
Cannes braced itself last week as the brogue and court shoe-clad feet of the property and construction industries pounded its streets for Mipim.
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FeaturesMaking BREEAM robust
For too long, designers have been able to get top BREEAM ratings by adding recycling space and bike racks. Now the green assessment tool is toughening up its act with mandatory levels for energy and water use – and a new rank above ‘excellent’.
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FeaturesWill it be ken again?
He may once have been master of all he surveys, but Ken Livingstone’s victory in May’s election for London mayor is not assured. This time he has to convince voters of his record. So how has he done? Mark Leftly takes seven key pledges in the London Plan and judges ...
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FeaturesWhy did the lights go out on Hills electrical?
Earlier this month, one of the best known and best respected subcontractors in Britain was sold for the price of a cup of coffee. Eleanor Goodman and Sarah Richardson report on what went wrong
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FeaturesZaha's challenge
The abandonment of Zaha Hadid’s Architecture Foundation HQ in London was a disappointment for design connoisseurs, but what does it tell us about the ambition of the British construction industry?
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FeaturesThe evolving QS
With flotation looking distinctly iffy – as Turner & Townsend realised last week – cost consultants are looking for other ways to expand and survive.
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FeaturesMeet the new ministers: Supernanny and Shriti the shriek
So Fortuna’s ever-whirling wheel has brought two new politicians to look after our industry. At first sight they seem like standard issue New Labour middle managers. Probe a little deeper into their biographies, though, and they’re about as similar as Mary Poppins and Lady Macbeth.
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FeaturesBAA the economy class client
BAA was the client that revolutionised construction to deliver Heathrow Terminal 5 on time and budget, but the cultural change that has followed its takeover by Spanish contractor Ferrovial has left many observers wondering whether that revolution is now over.