All Leader articles – Page 26
-
CommentMaglev vs high-speed rail: Should we change trains?
The billions we will spend on HS2 will get us from London to Birmingham 28 minutes faster than the present system does. After Birmingham, the trains will travel on old lines
-
CommentThe fire alarm is ringing
It’s official: if a timber-frame building catches fire, it will suffer more damage than if it were built using other forms of construction
-
CommentDavis Langdon takeover: Making painful progress
So the industry’s worst-kept secret is out: Aecom is taking over Davis Langdon
-
CommentWe haven't lost them ... yet
Those who have entered the construction sector in the past few years could be forgiven for feeling they had made an error on the scale of marching on Russia just as the nights are drawing in
-
CommentLow carbon agenda: Mixed greens
To a minister in Whitehall, bringing forward regs changes by a year may not seem like much of a leap. But for firms in the real world, it promises massive disruption
-
CommentThe times they have a-changed
When the head of construction at John Lewis says competitive tendering gets projects done for 10% less than partnering, it’s clear the paradigm has shifted
-
CommentAlternative medicine
The gp consortiums will not be a few go-getting practices clubbing together - they’ll be huge organisations that operate over whole counties
-
-
CommentUS consultanting giants: About the size of it
Clients who have had a close relationship with a consultant they see as independent and free thinking could hesitate before employing a more impersonal multinational
-
CommentDegrees of awfulness
George Osborne’s Budget isn’t as bad as we feared – but it’s still going to hurt
-
CommentFalse economies
Experian is predicting a slight upturn for 2011 and 2012, but that’s predicated on continued recovery in the private sector and no more than £5bn cuts in public spending. That’s optimistic
-
CommentNow every penny counts
The new PM is putting all the skills he learned as a PR to work in preparing us for his deficit reduction measures
-
CommentShould you be tempted by Brazil?
Beach volleyball as the sun goes down, caipirinhas on demand and £360bn of government-assured infrastructure investment.
-
CommentThe HCA must survive
We’re living in anxious times. And if you’re in the social housing world, it’s as nerve-jangling as it gets
-
CommentWhat’s going on?
The coalition has stated that it will review spending commitments made since January using its own value for money criteria, and it’s obvious that the £55bn earmarked for schools renewal is not going to survive this process unscathed
-
CommentWill the QSs leave the RICS?
Drama in Westminster is not confined to the politicians. In the corner of Parliament Square where the RICS resides, tension between the institution’s management and its QS members is at snapping point.
-
-
CommentShould you join the yellow tide?
By the time you read these words on Friday, Nick Clegg may have fumbled the second leadership debate and the public’s sudden passion for the Lib Dems could have evaporated
-
CommentBeing good in a wicked world
Go into a local market with a local partner, and you are responsible for what it does – even if the boss is the minister of justice’s brother-in-law
-
CommentCould you vote labour again?
The industry used to vote how it wanted, safe in the knowledge that it wouldn’t change a thing. Back in 2005 most of the industry thought that Labour had the best economic policies, yet felt free to vote Tory