Opinion – Page 214
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CommentRemove energy firms from equation
It doesn’t make sense to rely on energy firms to reduce their profitability
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CommentTIF of the iceberg
Battersea’s Nine Elms development has got the green light to use tax-increment financing. Does this mean the industry has overcome the funding impasse?
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CommentMy digital life … James Baker
The chartered surveyor on why he doesn’t use a Mac, becoming an iPhone convert, and online shopping
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CommentWonders & blunders with Alice Milligan
Alice Milligan admires Glasgow School of Art’s main building, designed by aluminus Charles Rennie Mackintosh, but finds the neighbouring Bourdon Building lazy
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CommentHansom: High society
We’re up in the social stratosphere this week: dress sense at the Lords, Canary Wharf Group’s plans for the great unwashed, and One Hyde Park’s elusive residents - only high jinks at the Shard lower the tone
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CommentA long way to go
The Balfour Beatty’s latest troubles and the collapse of Rowecord Engineering indicate that construction is far from being out of the woods
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CommentShedding light on sports halls
Good daylight, good insulation and renewable energy shouldn’t be set in competition against each other
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CommentSame old story at Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty should have sorted out its businesses years ago
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CommentBIM: A long way to go?
There’s lots of optimism about what BIM can offer – but it is far from being fully integrated in the industry yet
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CommentBlowing in the wind
“Not only is the plank precariously balanced but there is also a significant fall as the windmill is perched above a rocky outcrop,” notes Clive Woodford, who took this photo while on holiday in Crete.
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CommentThe future is BIM
This year’s BIM Show Live shows that the industry is embracing BIM – but the challenge lies in understanding what information is important
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CommentUnreasonable conduct: Webb Resolutions Limited vs JV Limited t/a Shepherd Chartered Surveyors
In this case the claimant’s solicitors produced an order which failed to reflect what had been directed by the court – and their manoeuvres did not impress the judge
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CommentMy working day: James McArdell, Faithful+Gould
James McArdell on his path to becoming a graduate QS, the great outdoors in Wales and the ins and outs of forecasting costs
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CommentKier-May Gurney: A good deal?
Building’s assistant editor Joey Gardiner on the Kier’s proposed takeover of May Gurney
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CommentMy digital life … Paul King
The Green Building Council chief executive on converting to Macs, guitar heroes of the sixties and seventies, and temperamental iPad Notes
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CommentGreen rating systems: Bespoke solutions needed
An assessment of the problems with green building rating systems following last week’s feature article
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CommentPermitted development work will not help
Eric is getting in a right pickle (Pickles promises to revise home extensions plan, www.building.co.uk, 16 April 2013). This is a piece of ill thought-out legislation, which will not create more work for the building trade and will just cause a lot of neighbour disputes. There are already too many ...
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CommentDownward spiral continues with Osborne
The chancellor is to blame for blocking the industry’s recovery
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CommentHansom: Out on the tiles
Nocturnal celebrations of a bacchanalian nature are a feature of this week’s hectic schedule - leaving more sober heads to advise on flood defences, though a junior minister puts a spanner in the works