All Comment articles – Page 294
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CommentConstruction Rocks... at the Camden Centre
The venue: The Camden Centre The winners: Best Performance - Zero Charm; New Band - Mr Meaner; Best Fundraiser - Zero Charm
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CommentMy digital life ... Bruce Cockburn
The Berman Guedes Stretton Architects director on why he never looks at Twitter, the benefits of communicating face to face, and why the BBC is his favourite website (it just is)
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CommentFITs: Happy Anniversary, Mr Barker
A year after the energy minister slashed the feed-in tariff for solar power the legal ramifications are still emerging, with the latest challenge coming in the form of a class action
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CommentConstruction Act: One year on
It is one year since the amended Construction Act came into effect - a landmark that has gone almost unnoticed. This might be because the amendments have had such little impact
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CommentWhat's on at Ecobuild 2013
Here’s a sneak preview of the conference programme and seminar highlights at next year’s Ecobuild
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CommentWe must keep the Code for Sustainable Homes
Abolishing the Code for Sustainable Homes as part of the government’s review of housing standards would be a retrograde step
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CommentThe airport debate: Thames Hub
Huw Thomas, partner at Foster + Partners, argues the case for the Thames Hub
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CommentBuilding on Flickr: Town hall in Zaanstad
The town hall of the municipality of Zaanstad in the Netherlands, designed by Sjoerd Soeters. Photograph by Klaas Vermaas
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CommentIt’s time to kick-start a housing revolution
Local government holds a once in a lifetime opportunity to shape the communities in which we live
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CommentDesign and build contracts: Confusion guaranteed
We have got used to thinking that there is an implied fitness for purpose warranty in a design and build contract. But a recent case has muddied the waters
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CommentOn the road
Construction of road infrastructure can exemplify collaborative and modern methods of working
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CommentA happy workplace
Happy workers are more productive than miserable ones, but what generates happiness in the first place? Here’s the secret according to Stephen Gee at John Rowan and Partners, which topped our Good Employer Guide this week
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CommentHansom: Rock and rile
While the mayor of Newham goads his audience at the London Property Summit, a director’s rousing speech is given from a table top and a gorilla-suited drummer gives a lesson on how to work a crowd
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CommentSlimming down a giant
The announcement of Balfour Beatty’s restructure has certainly been long in the making, but whether it’s a reactive or proactive is less clear
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CommentMy digital life ... Rob Firth
The HOK practice building director on the BBC sport website, checking Twitter and why he prefers to meet face to face
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CommentCramped and loo-les
Victorian terrace houses had to accomodate larger families in smaller spaces
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CommentCIL: Nice little earner
The Community Infrastructure Levy was brought in to speed up development but the tariffs being set seem so arbitrary – and so hard to challenge – that it could have just the opposite effect
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CommentWonders & blunders with Terry Tommason
The Middle East’s lack of planning rules gives architects an unparalleled freedom, which can result in a certain purity of design or ridiculous extravagances, says Terry Tommason
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CommentStandardised schools: The customer is always right
From a child’s perspective, schools being standardised nationally is irrelevant