All Comment articles – Page 68
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NewsBrickonomics: A housing market in flux
Analysis of the most recent surveys from Rightmove on asking prices and from the RICS on lettings
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CommentSomething to shout about
One of the best bits of news we’ve heard in a long time was delivered by Ed Miliband last week
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NewsLegislation round-up: Your new health and safety responsibilities
A quick guide to how new health and safety regulations this April will affect you and your business
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NewsIs the housing market on the turn?
The latest housing market survey from the RICS is out, so what does it tell us about the direction of the housing market?
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NewsPassivhaus diaries, part 20: Coming to an end
As the Denby Dale house completes Bill Butcher reflects on what he’s learned in his penultimate diary entry
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NewsStarting Your Own Business, part 14: Finding your niche
Our industry as a whole may be suffering in recession, but there are still growth areas that need your professional skills
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NewsAnother slump
Official figures show construction output falling again, but devils lurk in the detail
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CommentThe real cost of regulation
According to the government, providing homebuyers with a plentiful supply of new homes has been an important goal for most of the past decade
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NewsEco-bling aside, there's some good stuff at Ecobuild
With Ecobuild in full swing, Bill Butcher from the Green Building Store and our regular Passivhaus blogger picks out some of the shows highlights
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NewsBSEC highlights at a glance
Conference sees launches, speeches and presentations and causes a buzz among education construction professionals
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NewsUnexplainable homes: German sausage
A continental approach to housing uses colourful facades to show just who owns what
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NewsBrickonomics: Growth still eludes construction
Latest figures from CIPS paint a gloomy picture – but the outlook isn't all bad
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CommentWrong time for an overhaul
Over the past few decades our system for regulating the supply of land and what can or cannot be built on it has become labyrinthine
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NewsStarting your own business, part 13: Planning the next six months
At the end of year two, things seem to be going well – but you'll need to do some hard thinking if you want them to stay that way
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NewsOpen source planning: naive, stupid or cynical?
The Tories revealed their planning policy this week, and the phrase 'barking' comes to mind
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NewsThe Tory planning conundrum
A Conservative government would hand planning powers over to local communities, but how will it reconcile this policy with the need for new housing?
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NewsHousing completions are way off target
From 2016 we are supposed to be building 240,000 homes a year, last year we managed a measly 118,000
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NewsConfusion over public spending cuts
Figures for a cut in net investment are causing alarm, but its the gross investment construction needs to worry about
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CommentWhy we need Charter 284
This week Building is launching a campaign to argue for five policy goals that the winner of the general election should implement
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NewsA bleak future for construction jobs
The latest figures may show a fall in redundancies, but don't start cheering just yet