All Letters articles – Page 3
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CommentDifferent ways to shorten the skills gap
A reader responds to Simon Rawlinson’s column with her own ideas about how to tackle the skills shortage
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Comment
Competition fails in our industry
Competition in the construction industry is a dysfunctional travesty of the real thing
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CommentThe Green Construction Board
Columnist Rudi Klein writes in about our Green Construction Board feature
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CommentAbolish retention?
A reader responds to Tony Bingham’s latest column to argue that retention funds should not be abolished
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CommentUse BIM for sustainability
We should use technology and intelligent information systems to their full potential in delivering the most efficient projects
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CommentHousing: Check facts about coalition housing record
Nick Raynsford hits back in the latest round of his war of words with Andrew Stunell on the issue of social housing
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CommentHousing: A maths lesson for Labour
Andew Stunell MP responds to Nick Raynsford’s critique of his coulmn on coalition housing policy
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CommentHousing record is no cause for celebration
The Labour MP and Building columnist responds to Andrew Stunnell’s latest column in a letter to the editor
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CommentDemand for better health and safety
‘Following the deaths of two construction workers we demand urgent action by the HSE’
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CommentAsbestos training needed to avert tragedy
Chair of UK Asbestos Training Association reminds us of the dangers of asbestos
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CommentNew Street architect speaks
Alejandro Zaera-Polo on the Birmingham station project’s atrium cladding
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CommentStandardisation is to be avoided
Debbie Aplin has raised some important issues about standardisation, which led to a recent landmark rejection by Eric Pickles
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CommentUK needs housing crisis solution
The UK must look overseas for solutions to its housing crisis if it wishes to succed, writes Peter Vaughan
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CommentLower help to buy threshold
The government should consider lowering the threshold towards the average house or flat price
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CommentCycle deaths are preventable
Heavy construction vehicles should be banned from using minor roads
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CommentBlacklisting or prudent management?
We haven’t heard the contractors’ side of the blacklisting argument
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CommentShifting the blame for the Green Deal ...
Ed Davey has a cheek in trying to pin the slow take-up on external wall insulation providers