All articles by David Blackman – Page 9
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FeaturesInfrastructure: Keep the engine running
Lack of investment in UK infrastructure could be a serious barrier to economic growth, but is the government prepared to pay for it?
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FeaturesIt’s time to fix the housing crisis
With a dire shortage of homes in the country, what has the government got to do to get housing working again?
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CommentElection 2015: On the night
Building’s correspondent describes observing last night’s election result from BBC Broadcasting House and looks to the future under a Tory majority
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FeaturesFloating voters: Which way are you leaning?
This week we catch up with our panel of floating voters, first selected during the 2010 election, to ask what they think the different parties offer the industry and who they are intending to vote for this time around
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FeaturesElection special: The parties compared
With less than a week to go until the election, and all parties having finally published their manifestos, how do the parties line up on the key issues for construction?
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FeaturesBIM survey results: Levelling off?
The government is backing it. Firms are paying top dollar for people that can do it. So why does the number of firms using building information modelling actually seem to be falling?
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FeaturesTrue cost of sustainable homes
Our roundtable of housing experts, sponsored by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, gathered to discuss how housebuilders can build sustainably and cheaply
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FeaturesThe Farrell Review: Into the long grass?
One year on from the publication of Terry Farrell’s review of architecture and the built environment, it’s time to see whether the government is prepared to support good design - or whether it will favour continued procrastination
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FeaturesInterview: Nick Taylor
Nick Taylor closed the Russian office of his company, Waterman Group, one month before Putin annexed the Crimea. He explains why pulling back from developing markets and focusing on the UK is right for the engineer
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FeaturesUKIP: The vocal minority
Control immigration and large areas of British countryside will not need to be destroyed by housebuilding, says UKIP. Nationalist populism at its most simplistic, perhaps, but the party’s anti-development stance is bearing down on politics at a local level
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FeaturesApprentices in construction: One step forward…
For construction to exploit the economic recovery, it will need about 30,000 new skilled workers each year - that’s about double the number of apprentices the industry is training up
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FeaturesPower in the Union
It seems increasingly possible that the UK will vote to leave the EU in 2017. For many sustainability professionals, this would be a nightmare scenario
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NewsArchitects unveil 74 competing designs for Nine Elms bridge
Anonymous entries on public display
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NewsRejigged Viñoly Marble Arch plans get green light
Almacantar increased scheme’s height following pressure from freeholder for more offices
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FeaturesArchitecture: The diversity problem
An architectural education will last seven years and leave you with debts in excess of £50,000. So is it becoming a pastime exclusively for the rich?
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FeaturesSME housebuilders: Small talk
The proportion of homes built by small housebuilders has halved in recent years. So, with listed builders increasing output and reporting record profits, why are their smaller competitors still struggling to make ends meet?
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FeaturesConsultants' salary survey 2015: Up, up and away
Inflation-busting pay increases and robust recruitment growth characterise this year’s Hays consultants’ salary survey. But employee discontent and ongoing skills shortages could deflate the widespread optimism
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NewsEighty architects jostle for £40m Nine Elms bridge
Shortlist of four will be unveiled next month
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NewsCanary Wharf wins planning for 27-storey tower
Tower Hamlets grants permission for KPF-designed tower