All Letters articles – Page 21
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CommentStorytime: Wilfred and the chisel
At Bristol’s Kingsdown Council school in 1946, I joined Mr Bowell’s woodwork class. He was a quietly-spoken man in a carpenter’s work coat
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Winds of change
I read with great interest the report published by Scottish Renewables, highlighting the huge potential for job creation in the offshore wind generation industry over the next decade.
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A nonsulting request
Those of your readers who managed to read e-Building on their sandy beach may have noticed the pretty fundamental consultation launched by Andrew Stunell, the Minister for Building Regulations (“What would you do with the Regs, 6 August, page 20)
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The train line
News that the likes of BT and Network Rail have been inundated with applicants for their apprenticeship programmes should be welcomed.
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What's wrong with Laing O'Rourke
Further to your article about Laing O’Rourke laying off 17,500 workers, when I worked there I only ever got in trouble for telling them their business models were flawed
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CommentYou've got the wrong house
I was very disappointed to read the main headline accompanying your article on the energy performance gap in new house building (“This house has been designed to be highly sustainable
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Restructure or be left behind
I read with interest Building’s recent article on the data for construction from the Office for National Statistics (“Newport, we have a problem”, 20 August, building.co.uk)
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Swedish lessons
It was interesting to read the discussion on building.co.uk about how to harness the “sustainability values” of the 2012 Olympic Games (Green expertise in danger of being lost, 27 July)
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CommentHitting the roof
I have asked Building for a right to reply to Luke Wessely’s column “Land of the Dachdeckermeister” (6 August, page 25), in which someone with a clear vested interest in a particular form of roofing wanted to suggest that its choice was a no-brainer
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Controlling interest
Doom and gloom followed the latest Construction Trade Survey’s reports. But this forecast of a bleak future should be seen as an opportunity to learn from past mistakes and challenge the way the industry works
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Enforcing no set-off clauses
In her otherwise excellent column on the 2010 RIBA forms of architect’s appointment (A return to a simpler time, 13 August), Rachel Barnes predicts that a court may decline to enforce the no set-off clause
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All skilled up and nowhere to go
News that the likes of BT and Network Rail have been inundated with applicants for their apprenticeship programmes should be welcomed
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With a little understanding
The “big society” is working well, then (Prescott ’growth areas’ pull plans for thousands of homes, 6 August, building.co.uk)
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Right tool for the job
Your article, Government’s carbon compliance tool ’inadequate’ (2 July, building.co.uk) raises an important question: why is the government continuing to spend money expanding the capabilities of SAP, when other alternative tools are already available in the form of SBEM and DSM?
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Smaller fish are endangered
Aecom’s deal to buy Davis Langdon for £204m will further reduce the opportunity for smaller consultancies to win major projects (5 August, building.co.uk)
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Don't trust Gove
Perhaps if Michael Gove identifies where the funding was coming from for both the capital and the revenue, the Academies Bill might be more believable (Gove defends “rushed” Academies Bill, 20 July, building.co.uk)
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Have glass, won't travel
Here’s a new feature concept: “Building buys a pint for … anyone outside London.”
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Let's get falls to fall
Recently released Health and Safety Executive figures, showing that worker deaths were down from 178 fatalities in 2008/09 to 151 in 2009/10, are testament to the work of safety practitioners across the UK
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Schools are too expensive ...
The number of people involved and the massive fees that are paid, no wonder the cost of the schools is off the scale