All Comment articles – Page 207
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CommentA New York story
New York City has taken a tough line with construction firms that are involved in illegal activity. After looking at the case of Structure Tone, you wonder how long it will be before we take similar action here
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CommentRebuilding schools: The sequel
As the government opens bidding for its second wave of the Priority Schools Building Programme, it’s important schools and contractors consider the challenges ahead to make best use of the £2bn of extra funding
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CommentThe quest for zero waste
Buildings of the future will be 100% recyclable, totally flexible and highly sophisticated - so who is going to design them?
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CommentClearing the traffic
The Highways Agency is being transformed from a quango to a go-co. But will it help projects to move faster – or just reduce its accountability?
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CommentThe Green Construction Board
Columnist Rudi Klein writes in about our Green Construction Board feature
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CommentThe biggest client of them all
The industry needs to address its structure before the skills gap can be bridged
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CommentHansom: Quite a performance
Roll up, roll up … And enter a magical world where cranes dance on building sites, construction professionals ride dragons across the waves, civil engineers are funny, and death metal bands are completely silent
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CommentEnergy performance: Postulation or practice?
We urgently need work out how to assess the real in-use energy performance of our commercial buildings so we can understand their true output
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CommentThe future of infrastructure lies with industry collaboration
The technology exists to bring together the government, businesses and the public on infrastructure schemes
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CommentZero carbon is costing us too much
The government has missed an opportunity to improve new housing by sticking dogmatically to an expensive zero-carbon solution
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CommentWhy I'm running for RIBA Council
Architect Ben Derbyshire on why he and fellow architects Andy von Bradsky and John Assael are aiming to reform the RIBA
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CommentNo escape from 106
Jacqueline Backhaus and Henry Fitch A recent case involving a planning row at an east London faith centre is a reminder of the difficulty of overturning section 106 agreements through the courts
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CommentHoneywell International Middle East Limited vs Meydan Group LLC (Formerly known as Meydan LLC): Enforcement of foreign awards
The arbitration award was recognised by the Dubai Court of First Instance. Meydan appealed but proceedings were stayed due to bribery allegations
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CommentFuture impossible?
A couple in the future decide to extend their semi-detached home - here’s how they might do it
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CommentLatham: A knight’s tale
Michael Latham was just one of a long line of ‘gurus’ seeking to transform construction. They all failed but at least Sir Michael successfully transformed the legal process
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CommentThe fracking revolution
Proposals to streamline UK trespass laws could allow companies to extract shale gas from underneath an adjacent landowner’s property without permission
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CommentHow much did Latham's report change us?
A great deal has changed over the last 20 years, but has the construction industry changed as much as Latham would have hoped?
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CommentA bright future
Since coming to power in 2010, this government has tried to engage with the construction industry to make public spending on buildings and infrastructure leaner. Here the minister for the Cabinet Office counts the ways