All Comment articles – Page 32
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CommentThe DEC decision
The government should strengthen, not abandon, the Display Energy Certificate system
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CommentGold Medal for the diva
With a portfolio that pushes the limits of what is possible, Zaha Hadid proves being relentlessly demanding pays off
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CommentHousebuilding: In the balance
The rate and extent of change to different housing policies designed to stimulate delivery could see their desired effects cancelled out. Maintaining stability of delivery is key for the sector’s growth
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CommentDigital training: Is the industry interested?
Construction needs to move with the times and continue to embrace the digital era
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CommentThe Professionals
In the built environment, professionalism has largely been the preserve of the consultants and designers in charge of the ‘virtual’ part of construction. But ‘real’ construction needs these values too - in spades
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CommentNail your colours to the mast
The question of whether the UK should remain in the European Union is a classically polarised debate
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CommentThe estates we’re in
Will Cameron’s rhetoric about regenerating the UK’s most run-down estates lead to any benefits for the people who actually live on them?
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CommentWater, water everywhere
That the UK needs greater flood defences is a no-brainer. Getting a level of co-ordination between government departments and local authorities to make it happen is the challenge
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CommentDear minister...
As the festive season draws to a close it’s time to look at the big challenges for 2016. What would our columnist say to a new built environment minister about the year that lies ahead for the construction industry?
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CommentTown and gown
If universities and the cities they’re in talked to each other more about their individual goals, they’d find plenty of overlap and opportunities to enhance their shared spaces
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CommentHelping Nepal
What working as an engineer in Nepal’s rebuilding programme following April’s earthquake taught me
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CommentWho turned up the heat?
Meeting carbon budgets outlined at the Paris Climate Conference is a regulation the UK might actually feel the effects of
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CommentNew year, new challenges
The industry remains on course to pass 2007 pre-recession levels next year, but it’s no time to put your feet up
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CommentHere we go again
The government’s resolve - yet again - to postpone the decision on airport expansion shows that planning remains subservient to politics, and sets off alarm bells for the National Infrastructure Commission - which must act now to protect its authority
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CommentReady, action
World leaders at the Paris summit entered the final stages of negotiation over an agreement to limit carbon emissions this week
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CommentBuilding Live: That was the week that was
Here are seven things we learned at last week’s Building Live conference
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CommentHousebuilding: Home delivery
The government is keen to move away from `generation rent’ but are the measures it is putting in place enough to deliver the homes the country needs?
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CommentGeorge, the builder
Might the chancellor’s catchphrase of “we are the builders” actually have come good?