All Comment articles – Page 274
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CommentHansom: Ah, the memories
Let’s go back in time with thought-provoking graffiti from the sixties, a return to the slow pace of barge travel, and the recollection of how the 2012 Olympics promised so much for contractors
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CommentLegal brief: Do architects certificates operate as contracts?
A decision by Mr Justice Akenhead in a recent case provides some clarity
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CommentTIF of the iceberg
Battersea’s Nine Elms development has got the green light to use tax-increment financing. Does this mean the industry has overcome the funding impasse?
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CommentWind farms: Second generation
A lot of lessons have been learned about the technical side of building wind farms. But what about contracts? Lindy Patterson looks at how things have changed in the last decade
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CommentWillmott Dixon vs Newlon: A case in points
Tony Bingham’s column on the recent Willmott Dixon vs Newlon Housing dispute focused on procedural objections - but there’s an awful lot more to the case than that
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CommentMy digital life … James Baker
The chartered surveyor on why he doesn’t use a Mac, becoming an iPhone convert, and online shopping
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CommentWonders & blunders with Alice Milligan
Alice Milligan admires Glasgow School of Art’s main building, designed by aluminus Charles Rennie Mackintosh, but finds the neighbouring Bourdon Building lazy
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CommentHansom: High society
We’re up in the social stratosphere this week: dress sense at the Lords, Canary Wharf Group’s plans for the great unwashed, and One Hyde Park’s elusive residents - only high jinks at the Shard lower the tone
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CommentShedding light on sports halls
Good daylight, good insulation and renewable energy shouldn’t be set in competition against each other
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CommentA long way to go
The Balfour Beatty’s latest troubles and the collapse of Rowecord Engineering indicate that construction is far from being out of the woods
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CommentSame old story at Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty should have sorted out its businesses years ago
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CommentBIM: A long way to go?
There’s lots of optimism about what BIM can offer – but it is far from being fully integrated in the industry yet
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CommentBlowing in the wind
“Not only is the plank precariously balanced but there is also a significant fall as the windmill is perched above a rocky outcrop,” notes Clive Woodford, who took this photo while on holiday in Crete.
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CommentThe future is BIM
This year’s BIM Show Live shows that the industry is embracing BIM – but the challenge lies in understanding what information is important
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CommentUnreasonable conduct: Webb Resolutions Limited vs JV Limited t/a Shepherd Chartered Surveyors
In this case the claimant’s solicitors produced an order which failed to reflect what had been directed by the court – and their manoeuvres did not impress the judge
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CommentProfessional negligence dispute: On the rocks
When a judge blocked a £3m award to whisky maker Whyte Mackay, he questioned whether a professional negligence dispute should have come to adjudication at all
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CommentMy working day: James McArdell, Faithful+Gould
James McArdell on his path to becoming a graduate QS, the great outdoors in Wales and the ins and outs of forecasting costs
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CommentKier-May Gurney: A good deal?
Building’s assistant editor Joey Gardiner on the Kier’s proposed takeover of May Gurney