All Comment articles – Page 132
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CommentTaken on trust
Cash is king and nowhere is this truer than construction. Contractors should take steps to guarantee payment or be prepared to face the consequences
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CommentOnline poll: Spring budget
Did Philip Hammond’s Budget do enough for the construction industry? Vote here
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CommentA cap in liability: The absolute limit
Contractual limitation of liability and whether such clauses say what they are intended to mean is an issue regularly aired in court
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CommentMind the tender price gap
Cost pressures have hit new highs, creating a lag between initial project costs and the final tender price, so what’s to be done?
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CommentThe need for International Women's Day
Gender equality in the workplace is not a ‘women’s issue’, the fact that it is still an aspiration has huge economic implications for us all
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CommentIt's not a housing supply crisis, it's an affordability crisis
The government can’t see house prices continue to rise while also delivering affordable homes, so a boost for the rental market is a neat sidestep
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CommentWhy women don't pick construction careers
Women in Construction Week should prompt us all to think about how the industry can discard outdated stereotypes
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CommentEcobuild blog: Driving sustainability - a constant in an ever-changing world
Dulux's outlook on sustainability combines being environmentally friendly with customer benefits. Duncan Lochhead talks about its new specifier tool Halo and the Smarter Spaces scheme
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CommentTrain to win
The apprenticeship levy is coming, so we might as well make the best of it. And how we do that is by thinking smarter and working together to make the scheme succeed for us
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CommentHansom: Best picture goes to …
Film crews horse around at Heathrow, there are Luddites at the palace, and at least one person is pleased HS2 is coming through Birmingham. Plus, analyst in Alpine holiday shock and a TV titan returns to White City
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CommentGrow your own apprenticeships
Firms should use the apprenticeship system to meet the industry’s long-term needs as competition with other industries is set to increase
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CommentRevolutionary reform
A study for TeCSA revealed an appetite for change in the pre-action protocol for construction and engineering disputes. That change came into effect towards the end of last year
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CommentSimply fair
Understanding contractual provisions can be complicated but a solid legal framework that also reflects fair payment guidance is essential
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CommentWe need a boring Budget
Next week the chancellor will unveil his spring Budget, let’s hope he uses it to strengthen existing policies and provide certainty rather than unleash any big surprises
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CommentWho gets the bill?
A collapsed tunnel on a hydroelectric scheme left the contractor and employer in dispute about who should pay to have it rectified. So where does liability lie?
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CommentOnline poll: Apprenticeships levy
Will the government’s all-industry apprenticeship levy work for construction? Vote here
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CommentMaking the private rented sector work
Successful affordable rented schemes are ones that allow communities to grow, and to do that we need to listen to tenants’ needs
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CommentStemming the skills shortage
Companies need to work hard to persuade students in school of the importance STEM subjects can play in their future careers
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CommentHitting NHS deadlines
Getting stakeholder engagement right at the start is key to successful management of healthcare projects
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CommentEcobuild blog: Regeneration for everybody
A year on from architectural collective Assemble's Turner Prize win, we speak to Fran Edgerley about its groundbreaking Granby Workshop and the importance of community-led regeneration