All Leader articles – Page 7
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CommentHousebuilders' salaries are healthy - but is the market as rosy as it looks?
Despite soaring salaries in the housebuilding sector, there’s an air of nervousness that the government will burst the bubble by scrapping its Help to Buy scheme
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CommentThe human toll of poor payment practices
Business failures often seem abstract and remote. How does it actually feel to go through the process of winding up your own business?
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CommentThe Tories put housing in the spotlight
The PM surprised conference with a welcome boost to council house building, but elsewhere private housebuilders got a bit of a kicking
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CommentSurvival of the fittest: consultants in rude health - for now
Our Top 150 league shows consultants have enjoyed a strong year – but how long will the good times last?
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CommentLeader: Tomorrow’s world
Young people now entering the industry hold the keys to its future – let’s listen to them
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CommentWe apologise for the late-running Crossrail service …
Crossrail’s was supposed to be a good news story for construction - so what went wrong?
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CommentLeader: Education, education, education?
As new academic year starts, for the schools construction sector there is worry about the amount of work coming onto their books
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CommentLeader: Let’s get radical
Modular construction is being touted as the as way forward for housing build, but the market is still waiting for the breakthrough product
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CommentConstruction needs a deal
As things stand – more than two years after the Leave vote – we still have no idea what it actually means for any sector of the economy, least of all construction.
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CommentLeader: Taking a step back to go forwards
While it’s a grim picture for contracting, individual firms are starting to fight back. But the uncertainty of Brexit still looms large over the industry
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CommentLeader: Playing fair
It’s not just main contractors who have been at fault over late payments. Practices along the entire chain, right from the client, should be more transparent
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CommentLeader: Living on the margins
The big story in this year’s Top 150 league tables is contractors’ pitifully low margins compared with housebuilders’ surging profits
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CommentRiding the storm
Yet another government reshuffle and another housing minister is in place, but does any of this Westminster chaos matter to construction’s core issues?
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CommentThe new you
We’ve been looking at some of the themes that are driving change within the construction industry
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CommentA light at the end of the tunnel
How much has the government actually done since Carillion’s implosion to address unfair payment practices?
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CommentHomes, sweet homes - and votes
A raft of housing policy announcements this weeks were somewhat overshadowed by the Heathrow expansion vote - but they could be important steps in speeding up housebuilding
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CommentTesting times: Public inquiry
The details in Dr Barbara Lane’s report of what went wrong at Grenfell Tower are a sad indictment on the state of some elements of the construction industry
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CommentDon't panic
While the macroeconomic picture and wobbly domestic outlook do cause concern and create uncertainty, things are nowhere near as bad as they were a decade ago
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CommentThe not so new kids on the block
Smaller consultancies’ larger mid-sized competitors have a choice to make: continue going global or get down on the ground on service and price to win
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CommentRunning for cover
Rising premiums are set to continue for all after Grenfell, along with increased scrutiny and bureaucracy. The fear is that the problems will get worse before they get better