Opinion – Page 153
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Why I'm still optimistic about retrofit
Lasting change is required to fulfil domestic retrofit’s huge potential
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Egan and BIM: Steady as she goes
In the last of this series, putting an Egan principle into practice with BIM
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Five - the magic number
The ultimate goal for achieving minimum energy performance standards is a ‘factor five’ improvement, while maintaining current growth projections
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Hansom: Fantasia
Create your own unique buildings using Lego bricks, see your dreams of a replica Eiffel Tower come true, watch as a dead monarch’s head comes back to life, be amazed as Battersea’s crumbling towers are resurrected …
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Beware the wrong acquisition
What can we learn from the month-long Balfour Beatty-Carillion kerfuffle?
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Seizing the middle gap in housing
Speller Metcalfe’s Matt Brown responds to one of our blogs on housebuilding
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How do we get GB to move from G to B?
If property investors are to improve the energy performance of their assets they need clarity on the government’s long-term aims
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Tentative times
The CPA/Barbour ABI Construction Index was 128 in July, slightly lower (4%) than in June
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Reaching pre-recession levels
One could be forgiven for not knowing whether to celebrate the banishing of the recession or worry about an unbalanced recovery
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What eighteenth century Rome can teach us about making places
Why generating ‘street life’ - in all its senses - is the key to building successful cities
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A suitable case for treatment
Medical advances, improved technology and increasing outpatient numbers have transformed the construction challenge - so the decade-old NHS estate guidance needs some radical updating
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Housing's on the up – but can we meet demand?
Planning, skills and finance barriers remain before we can meet the UK’s housing needs
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Passivhaus' power as a quality standard for buildings
The Passivhaus standard can improve all sizes and types of projects - I’ve seen the evidence
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What are you reading this summer?
Holiday season is the perfect chance to catch up on some great Building articles you may have missed this year - as selected by our industry contributors
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Occupier demand still outstrips construction
If we are to meet growing demand for commercial space, we need to turn our attention to untapped existing building stock
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Government has finally brought out the green sticks
Minimum Energy Performance Standards have the ability to succeed in greening our buildings where incentives have failed
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Richard Bailey picks 'A leaner, keener kind of BIM'
Frank McLeod’s blog reasons that BIM can only be as innovative as the people using it
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Paul King picks 'Davey pledges to fix 'disappointing' and 'clunky' Green Deal'
It was refreshing to see Ed Davey speak so candidly about the Green Deal at this year’s Ecobuild
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David Bownass picks 'Minister outlines limit for zero carbon exemption'
A must read news article on the zero carbon exemption debate