Opinion – Page 146
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CommentMore work should mean more staff
A booming housing sector has put a concerning strain on housebuilder’s work/life balance
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CommentOnline poll: Work-life balance
Are you concerned about the effect of the industry’s upturn on your work-life balance? Vote here
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CommentEnergy efficiency: It's all in the details
There’s a great need to get the little things right as we move towards tighter buildings
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CommentPositivity for 2015
Despite concerns about a slowing housing market and the impact of the eurozone on the UK economy, construction continued to grow in Q3
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CommentI applaud Labour's energy ambition
The Labour party has good ideas but the question of where the money is remains
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CommentDon't write off small associations
There’s an opportunity for small developers to help realise social housing construction
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CommentLandlords - the new pariahs
The private rented sector gets a bad press, but it’s time to shine a little light into the darkness
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CommentBeyond BIM tools
Industry-wide adoption of BIM is about more than software - we must also change the way we manage projects
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CommentThe wage gap
The CBI is right to say we need fair rates of pay to secure economic and social stabiity, and in construction this approach could also help secure the next generation of workers
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CommentWhat now for Scotland?
The ‘no’ vote in the Scottish referendum was supposed to have created certainty for business, but it seems to have only raised more, and very fundamental, questions about Scotland’s future
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CommentRefurbishing Bush House
It’s a privilege to work on historically sensitive refurbishments and it takes the very best talent in our industry to do it well
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CommentFrom shambles to fiasco
This week’s bad news story about the government’s £750m consultants framework is just the latest in a series of disasters
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CommentThe whirligig of time
Is momentum finally starting to swing the way of the specialist contractors?
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CommentOnline poll: SBS framework
Is the government right to re-tender the UK SBS consultants framework? Vote here
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CommentHansom: All Atwitter
This week, barely containable excitement at Canary Wharf as the Qataris try to buy up the whole show, things are going nuts at the Cheesegrater, BIM is top trump, and Sir John Soane’s classical Rome is a corker
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CommentThe price is not right
Despite the upturn, consultants are still making unrealistic, low-margin bids on new work. This must be reined in if the market is to truly gain strength
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CommentThe next home technology revolution
Technology in the home is about to take a giant leap forward, but are developers ready to take advantage?
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CommentThe nation's golden years
The country is getting older, and by 2050 one in four of the UK population will be over 65. The need for accommodation that provides additional care is an opportunity for the sector
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CommentHansom: Every breath you take
London’s Battersea Power Station development gets its first celebrity tenant, a huge game of Monopoly raises a shedload of (real) cash and polystyrene goes the way of Opal Fruits and Marathon bars with a rebrand