All Comment articles – Page 63
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CommentMaking fonts appear clearly on building.co.uk
If our new-look website isn’t looking too hot, here are a couple of computer tweaks that could help…
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CommentThe HCA must survive
We’re living in anxious times. And if you’re in the social housing world, it’s as nerve-jangling as it gets
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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
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CommentLuke Wessely: Greek tragedies, British farces
Before we get too comfortable as armchair critics of rapacious footballers and financially illiterate European states, we should take a long, hard look at ourselves
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CommentQuentin Shears: The Americano takeover
’We need to talk about rebranding - you have a brunch meeting at three’
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CommentSix billion pounds of spending cuts - and many more to come
This is just of foretaste of cuts we face in the June Budget and autumn spending review
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CommentWhat’s going on?
The coalition has stated that it will review spending commitments made since January using its own value for money criteria, and it’s obvious that the £55bn earmarked for schools renewal is not going to survive this process unscathed
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CommentA day at Moscow's OfficeNext conference
Russia’s capital has experienced a recent boom, so it’s about time it had a commercial office exhibition to reflect the fact - BDG Workfutures’s Phil Hutchinson was there
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Brickonomics: Plummeting private housing completions
It’s time for a reality check on just how bad the situation is
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Will London's new bus win our hearts?
Not all Heatherwick’s adaptations to the Routmaster are successful but at least it’s an attempt to revive one of the capital’s best loved icons
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Is Shapps going to be good for housebuilders?
So far the industry is keen to make friends with the new housing minister, but his localism agenda could turn them into enemies
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Ready for a courtroom drama?
The Chelsea Barracks case in the High Court this week has a star cast list that you just couldn't make up
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Tactical adjudications
The court reminded the parties in the case of Pilon vs Bryer not to play too many games
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The new austerity begins now
One of the side effects of spending five days in limbo after the general election is that some of the construction industry might have got the funny idea that nothing much had changed
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Redundancies remain high and vacancies low
Rising unemployment is one of the harsh realities facing the new government
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The new government: Efficiency and services
So, we have a coalition government - what are the tasks facing it now?
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Gordon's legacy: PPP RIP
Wall-to-wall election coverage has overshadowed the big construction story of the week - the dramatic end of the London Underground PPP
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Surviving social media
Social networks as a marketing tool are here to stay, the trick is not to get overwhelmed by the volumn of activity out there...