All Industry comments articles – Page 39
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NewsDown the tube
Building's news editor relives Monday's communter hell when London's tube almost ground to a halt and Metronet received a £1m slap on the wrist
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NewsHalcrow's flights of fancy
Building's senior reporter celebrated Halcrow's reburbishment of Kelvingrove museum in Glasgow and then got into a dogfight with the engineers
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NewsPicture perfect
Our photo-blogger is the former head of photography at the BRE so his regular insights into capturing perfect construction images should prove instructive
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NewsMeet the parents
The opening of the Hall of Fame exhibition at the Building Centre this week was a chance to hobnob with the great and the good in construction, and in some cases their parents ...
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NewsJack's Olympic broadside
Jack Lemley assertion that working on the London Olympics could have ruined his reputation for delivering projects on time will hit the confidence of all those involved
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NewsReeling in Richmond’s gas guzzlers
Building’s Regenerate editor is feeling victimised by Richmond council’s stealth tax on oversized cars.
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NewsRoad rage
You'd expect the victim of a number plate fraud to receive some sympathy from the council's parking services, not be pursued for offences he can prove he didn't commit. But then local authorities' lack of basic common sense is something the building industry has long come to accept, even if ...
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NewsTeam GB needs an outsider in charge for 2012
The resignation of Jack Lemley needn’t be a blow for the ODA as long as the new chair has a similar independent streak and a rigorous approach to procurement
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NewsThe great man's great night
Vikki Miller was at the Stirling prize ceremony to witness the grand man of architecture Richard Rogers take his trophy, as well as some strange behaviour from Mariella Frostrup and Kevin McCloud
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NewsWatch out Chardonnay housebuilders' wives have moved in
Regenerate's editor spends a lot of time in the company of housebuilders but thankfully none resemble the fictional boss of Whitewater Contractors
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NewsCompulsive viewing
Al Gore's hit film An Inconvenient Truth has struck a chord in the industry, but how much will it change as a result? The inconveniently true answer is probably not a great deal
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NewsCalling all PFI gurus ...
Want to be in charge of billions of pounds of PFI procurement and have a say in the country's future hospitals, roads and schools? Well, there's a job going at the Treasury - the only snag is that none of the front-runners seem interesting in applying
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NewsPutting dinosaurs on bicycles
Conservative grass root members are being asked to give up their 4x4s for a place in David Cameron's green utopia but will they change habits of a lifetime
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NewsPutting everything on Brown
Will Nigel Griffiths have time to back another political horse if Gordon Brown stumbles before the leadership election
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NewsTony the comedian wins a stay of execution
The primeminister was on fine form at the Labour party conference and Building's assistant editor thinks he may even miss him once he's gone
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NewsMurder on the Blueberry Estate
Chapter one of David Roger's regeneration murder-mystery story set in east London
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NewsThe big switch off
Electrisave has a gadget that enables you to see how much money your wasting on energy in your home, the only problem is you end up being an energy-saving addict who lives in the dark and never offers cups of tea for fear of boiling the kettle ...
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NewsLondon’s new garden suburb
The first shoots of new development are emerging from the brownfields of North Kent. Building’s technical editor wonders if he’d ever be tempted to leave Greenwich for Ebbsfleet
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NewsKeep your shorts on, Thierry
The Arsenal Emirates stadium may be the crowning achievement of the construction industry this year, but as a venue for a press do its becoming a bit passé...