All Leader articles – Page 33
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CommentYou do the sums
Hands up if this sounds like a silly argument to you: spend millions of pounds to cut x tonnes of carbon or spend a fraction of that to save the same x tonnes of carbon?
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CommentRip it up and start again
What do you do if you’ve fallen out of favour with the City and your share price is heading south?
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CommentNothing safe about our houses
So Peter Hain’s first act as secretary of state for work and pensions was to call an inquest into why so many people are dying on building sites – 17 more this year than last.
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CommentPolicies for a rainy day
In hindsight, Yvette Cooper probably wishes she’d waited for a break in the weather before launching her green paper.
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CommentWho goes there?
One of the odd things about private equity firms is just how unprivate they have become of late.
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CommentGordon Brown vs the housing crisis
There wasn’t too much we hadn’t heard before in Gordon Brown’s preview of the next Queen’s speech, and it was pretty short on detail, but the message came over loud and clear: if his predecessor’s top priorities were education, education, education, his are housing, housing and housing.
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CommentSo where are we now?
So Brown’s government is to be “aggressively pro-business”, according to John Hutton, the business secretary.
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CommentHow hard can it be?
Heart transplants are routine, information can cross the world in milliseconds and modern aviation lets us fly anywhere for a pittance. So why can’t we build half as many houses as we did in the sixties?
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CommentThe art of realpolitik
Few projects have inflamed passions more than the 2012 Olympics. The process of marrying the aspirational and the practical has put some sectors of the industry and the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) at each other’s throats.
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CommentToo much of a good thing
Back in September 1988, Building ran a series entitled “Crisis? What crisis?” arguing that the market was overheating.
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CommentIves rolls the dice
Francis Ives, the charismatic chairman of Cyril Sweett, has the reputation of being an enterprising fellow.
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CommentReform is a wonderful thing …
After a decade of busily making the planning system worse, the government has finally given the industry some hope that it might actually improve it.
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CommentDark and dangerous work
Don’t worry. If life lacks excitement after the Wembley peace treaty, it’s a safe bet in our industry that a fresh outbreak of hostilities won’t be far off.
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CommentTilting at windmills
Barely a day goes by without some policy announcement on sustainability.
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CommentMastering apprenticeships
The continuing troubles of construction apprenticeship training are depressingly familiar.
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CommentTaxing times for all
You’ve had a year of respite, but now the excuses must stop. From tomorrow, the government’s shake-up of the construction industry tax scheme (CIS) comes into force – after much heated debate, a few tears and a whole lot of confusion.
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Concrete has many benefits. Add to these cost savings and sustainability ...
Concrete’s many inherent benefits, such as fire resistance, sound insulation, robustness and minimum vibration, are widely recognised. New cost model studies and research now add cost-effective construction and sustainability to that list.