All Industry comments articles – Page 16
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NewsDoes the GDP debate rest on dodgy figures?
Our expert blogger examines the construction industry's economic foundations
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NewsChristmas crackers: Gus Alexander
Building's architectural critic tells us what's on his festive wish list
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NewsGrim outlook for jobs in construction
Brickonomics: Another drop in workload will have a devasting affect on what is already a fragile jobs market
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News2009 rewound: a review of the year
This was the year spent in the eye of the hurricane, between the collapse of private spending in 2008 and the collapse of public spending in 2010. Sarah Richardson remembers 12 months that many in the industry are trying to forget
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NewsDramatic exit of the year
Lee Polisano, the founder of the UK arm of US architect Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), left in September to set up his own firm PLP Architecture
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NewsCampaign victory
In February, the Health and Safety Executive finally caved in to demand for a national register of safety checks on tower cranes
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NewsHow the state helped – and didn’t
The public sector provided the vast bulk of any work there was in 2009, with fears that spending would slow before the election not holding true
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NewsA green revolution
The carbon-cutting campaign gathered momentum as the year went on, culminating in the Copenhagen summit of world leaders in December – and a last-minute appearance by US president Barack Obama
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NewsAn industry of ill-repute
The public’s opinion of construction took a hammering in 2009 with the Office of Fair Trading’s allegations of tender malpractice against 110 firms
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NewsHanging together
Construction’s disparate yet oddly indistinguishable trade bodies have, as noted by James Wates some years ago, long borne a worrying resemblance to Monty Python’s Judean People’s Front, the People’s Front of Judea and the Judean Popular People’s Front, at least in the eyes of Whitehall
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NewsA Right royal row
Prince Charles is well-known in for his vitriol towards all things carbuncular, but nobody could have predicted the row that kicked off when he criticised Richard Rogers’ designs for the Chelsea Barracks scheme in April
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Quotes of the year
"The crisis was predictable and probably avoidable. The final confusion in communication made a bad situation worse"Sir Andrew Foster, former chair of the audit commission, gives his verdict on the Learning and Skills Council debacle"He’s a menace to London"George Ferguson, former RIBA president, on Rafael Viñoly"I’ll stay on. A million ...
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NewsA trail of destruction
The year began on a bleak note when it was confirmed on 23 January that the UK had entered recession for the first time since the early nineties
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NewsBuilding's Pub Quiz of the Decade
You may think you know construction - but do you? Find out by answering our killer questions …
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NewsThe decade's best projects
Here are what we selected as our favourite projects of the past 10 years … plus the results of our reader poll