All Comment articles – Page 59
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CommentBalance of terror
Our thanks to Nigel Barrett for this picture of daily life on a south London trading estate.
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CommentSpending Review: Industry reaction
Find out what the construction industry thinks of George Osborne’s Spending Review
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NewsYou can’t ditch the indispensable
We’ll soon know whether the government intends to sell off ConstructionSkills. Whatever happens, our industry will still insist on a levy to pay for training, says Sir Michael Latham
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CommentConstruction in Cairo: Scaling the stone towers
The construction industry in Cairo has tended to stick to concrete buildings of a similar form and size, says Paul Scott. Now this seems to be changing in interesting ways …
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CommentQuentin Shears: Thinking inside the box
I’ve never been entirely sure what management consultancy is. My only hope was that nobody else knew either
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CommentShut your beaks
The construction industry is like a chick in its nest waiting for someone to deliver juicy new-build projects when it should be looking at the nitty-gritty of running an estate
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CommentSecond best is no good at all: impressions from the Labour party conference
Fresh from the Labour conference, Amanda Levete muses on the pointlessness of second place, the deviousness of committees and the role of a great leader in making great buildings
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CommentThe first of many BSF legal challenges?
While councils may be minded to claim back wasted costs, private sector players are just focused on not making a bad situation worse
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CommentWhat you need to know about the Equality Act
Measures that came into force on 1 October will take some construction employers by surprise, here’s why…
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NewsDealing with dragons
I was interested to note that it has been considered normal for a deal in China to include a large proportion of consideration (up to 100%) paid in advance (17 September, page 44)
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CommentSacred cow burgers
Whatever you think of the coalition, it’s pretty clear it needs help. Luckily construction is in a great position to provide it, but it needs to slaughter a few horned beasties first
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NewsTwo arms tied behind our back
Open mike It is in the interests of both landlords and tenants to improve a property’s energy efficiency - but they won’t until we change the law that constrains them
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CommentFalling mortgage approvals indicate gloomier times
House price indices are less helpful for forecasters when housing transactions are low
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CommentHansom: Tough sells
The Conservative housing minister at the Lib Dem party conference, a strangely familiar ’iconic’ development in Dubai and a super-luxe London apartment with its own secret tunnel
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Spending cuts: Education was just the start...
After the shock of the education spending massacre, the cutbacks will probably provoke despair rather than anger
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NewsQuestion time for Cameron
The Tory conference is going to be subjected to minute scrutiny in the hope that ministers will fill in some of the many blanks in policy. Sarah Richardson and Roxane McMeeken list the most important
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CommentNot with a bang but a whimper
We’re fighting our corner with all the eloquence and ferocity of a strangled budgie, and as yet more thousands are laid off, no one is there to so much as protest at our fate, says Richard Steer
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CommentLib Dems pick a row over education
Passions run high at the Lib Dem conference in Liverpool as they debate free schools and the ’new’ academies
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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