All Archive Titles articles – Page 60
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Archive TitlesNot the retiring types
A recent CIOB survey touches on a human resources timebomb: an ageing population is changing the dynamics of construction workforces and employers’ HR policies
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More on recessions please
Your March edition is one of the best issues I have read, but in your leader you mention ‘around 20 recessions in 175 years’ without indicating when, where and how these happened. Also, how did we extricate ourselves from these recessions?
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NVQ route overlooked
With reference to the article ‘Recalibrate your career’ (CM, March) one omission is your lack of coverage on the NVQ process at levels 3 to 5, site supervisory to senior management. NVQs have been with the industry for some time and are an excellent method for those within the industry, ...
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Archive TitlesPremier league
Based on an exemplar design for 21st century schools, Monkseaton High School has certainly pushed the envelope. And that includes upwards to a dramatic, domed roof worthy of a football stadium
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... there's an institution
Mike Smith of Corniche Builders says he would like to bring back the clerk of works (CM, March, Views). Clerks of works are still very much in existence today and working on construction projects
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Archive TitlesMore focus needed on the non-trades
National Apprentice Week in February did a lot to highlight the plight of trade apprentices and the lack of adequate places for them as the recession continues. Much was said about not repeating the mistakes of the last downturn. But the people who get forgotten in all this are the ...
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Archive TitlesFast fastening
Fastening specialist SFS Intec has launched a new hand-held installation tool designed to reduce strain and injuries for workers fastening through single ply membranes for flat roofs
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Diploma students deserve our support
It’s not easy being a project manager, even when the project you’re managing is only the £30,000 refurbishment of your own house
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Archive TitlesTribute to Dennis Neale?
I enjoyed your ‘Who do you think you are?’ article (CM, March), but wish that Dennis Neale’s great contribution to the growth and standing of the CIOB could have been emphasised.
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More than one design course
I write in my capacity as programme director of the BSc Hons programme – Architectural Engineering and Design Management – a successful and popular CIOB-validated degree programme in its 10th year. So far about 100 students have graduated from the course and are working in construction, mainly as design managers
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Archive TitlesIf greenwash is a fad diet, let's hope for a healthier code
To lose weight one must eat less and exercise more. It’s the same with becoming more sustainable – we must use less and recycle more. So we have to wean ourselves on to a healthier diet, maybe switching from chocolate bars to digestive biscuits on the way to a seasonal ...
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Clerks of works still here...
In response to Mike Smith in March’s Vox Pop, I am happy to report that clerks of works are alive and well and working on many sites throughout the UK
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Falkner-wood clarification
I have just received my copy of your celebratory ‘Across the Generations’ edition
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Archive TitlesChainsaw flaw
Re your ‘Ready for assembly’ feature on KLH cross laminated timber (CM, March)
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Archive TitlesWeb calculator helps green existing homes
An interactive web-based tool that helps homeowners, designers, builders and housing associations work out the best refurbishment plans to cut carbon emissions in existing homes launches next month
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Archive TitlesHere's one I built at the weekend
We’ve all smiled and flinched at the trials and tribulations of amateur property developers on TV shows such as Property Ladder and Grand Designs. But CM wanted to know what happens when construction professionals themselves undertake home renovations
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Archive TitlesBringing learning to life
At Thamesview School, the new construction diploma has proved popular. But it needs industry support to make it work – so it’s just as well we invited a volunteer tutor