All Industry comments articles – Page 29
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Eco-towns: creating a legacy
Eco-towns are an opportunity to embed vital lessons on community development and must not become a veiled attempt to boost housebuilding
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Has London gone architecture crazy?
The capital's month-long architecture festival is so jam-packed with events it's positively daunting...
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Birmingham and its big ambitions
Brummies are investing £10bn with the aim of becoming the UK's 'Second City', will it be enough to beat the other contenders?
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Your questions answered: Tim Byles on Building Schools for the Future
Last month the chief executive of Partnerships for Schools took part in a webinar on BSF, here he responds the questions it provoked
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Do the Tories care about construction?
This industry tends to back Tories over Labour, but as David Cameron's prospects improve should we worry for our future?
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The brute of Birmingham
Birmingham's Central Library is due for demolition despite being an important brutalist landmark. But does it deserve to be saved?
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The Construction Act is changing
It’s been a long time coming but now that government has promised primary legislation we could see substantial amendments
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More power to the subbies
Public sector clients would get better value if they worked directly with subcontractors rather than through main contractors
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Will Gordon Brown save housebuilders, Nantwich and his own skin?
The £200m the government is spending on buying private homes for social tenants may be a drop in the ocean but it could give voters a boost
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Execution without trial for Jarvis
The Potters Bar derailment may well have signed Jarvis’ death warrant, but guilt was never proven – is that fair?
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It only gets worse for BAA
The select committee hearing into the T5 fiasco proved embarrassing for BAA's bosses, mainly because they seemed woefully unprepared
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Ebbsfleet's mane attraction
Could a giant white horse put a post-industrial part of north Kent on the map? It's certainly the front-runner to win the 'Angel of the South' competition
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Egan 10 years on
In 1998 Sir John Egan told construction just how far it was from being a modern industry, told it how to improve, and told it how to measure that improvement. So how did it do?
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The ODA’s secretive approach does it no favours
More openness about the Olympics delivery might lead to less excitement over every minor overspend and a recognition of the organisation's wider successes
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What will Boris build in London?
Last week Londoners gave Ken the boot and now the new mayor has affordable family homes in his sights
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Lord Rogers' cancer centre outshines even Nigella
When Nigella Lawson opened RSH's Maggie's Centre last week, a longtime domestic goddess fan found herself even more blown away by the building itself
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Tory success gives Labour a planning headache
Tory success in the local elections will lead to more council opposition to the goverment's eco-town proposals
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Where's Northern Rock when you need it?
When Persimmon stops building, you know it's got bad. But if lenders like the Rock started lending again we could turn a corner
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Rebuilding Trust Campaign: Let's Start Again
We’d like you to rewrite the rules for the way construction does business. Building has launched the Rebuilding Trust campaign to show that, in the wake of the OFT bid-rigging inquiry, the industry will no longer turn a blind eye to anti-competitive behaviour.
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Don't be caught out by employment law changes
Employers need to be aware of altered maternity and sex discrimination rights