All Comment articles – Page 136
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CommentFive steps to detoxifying your office
Toxic workplaces risk employee wellbeing, so here’s how to rethink your work environment
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CommentConstruction has never been so crucial
As the government finalises its industrial strategy, Mace has some suggestions for boosting construction output
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CommentEnforcement: Crossing lines
What are the post-Brexit options for the UK government for enforcement of judgments within EU countries? Here are some of the routes available
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CommentHansom: All in the mind
This week, we find people with an incredible gift for predicting the past, architects get an offer they can’t refuse, Renzo Piano finds boat building isn’t plain sailing, and German existentialism gets a new lease of life
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CommentTime to expand the use of PF2
Will the success of some key education projects lead to a wider use of PF2 to fund a growing need for social infrastructure
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CommentHere today, gone tomorrow?
What are the main concerns for the industry as it moves into 2017?
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CommentOnline poll: Garden villages
Do you think the government’s garden village policy is a good idea? Vote here
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CommentUp the garden path
Garden villages are earmarked to provide 48,000 homes which won’t be a gamechanger for the UK’s housing supply
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CommentThe rise and fall of the mega-city
Mega-cities are no longer sustainable and the bigger they become, the less likely are they to function efficiently
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CommentWill nobody notice?
A recent case has highlighted the role and significance of notices, which can get particularly complicated when there are funding and insolvency issues
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CommentDelivering a healthy digital railway
The European Train Control System will go a long way to improve the efficiency of our railways, but it is only part of the solution
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CommentEcobuild blog: Here’s one we made earlier
The offsite sector is still in its infancy but a future in which robots manufacture complete building elements does not have to remain a pipe dream – we need to commit ourselves to further investment
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CommentEcobuild blog: Check out the competition
Responsible retail is essential for a sustainable future, and Ecobuild’s Big Innovation Pitch with M S will give ambitious innovators the opportunity to fast track engineering products across the retail sector
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CommentHow green space can pay its way in garden villages
Cost-benefit analysis of the impact of the natural environment on people could be used to plan the proposed wave of garden villages
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CommentTrump? Oh no it isn’t. Oh yes it is!
So much of the world - and construction in particular - looks like the back end of a panto horse. Imagine if we had a powerful, no-nonsense wheeler-dealer taking over the reins…
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CommentMake Brexit work for us
Building is starting 2017 by launching a campaign to secure a fair deal for construction from Brexit
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CommentHansom: Yule never walk alone
Christmas pud all eaten up, life returns to what we like to call normal – a world of football rivalries, eye-catching press releases, new year’s honours and Brexit. What’s left of the season of goodwill is restricted to dogs
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Comment2017 – the fear of the unknown
After what we went through last year, who would feel confident predicting what will happen this year to the property industry? But hell, why not try?
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CommentOnline poll: Brexit deal
Are you confident the government will negotiate a good Brexit deal for construction? Vote here
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CommentStart the clock…
The government wants to standardise 30-day payment terms throughout the supply chain in public contracts. Usefully, it has now clarified when the payment period starts