Opinion – Page 253
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CommentWhat will the world look like in 2050?
The built environment may not look radically different in the future but major change is needed to meet sustainability demands - and we need a plan now
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CommentHansom: When in Cannes
Eurostar travellers arrived at this year’s Mipim event - after an extended journey - hungry and peeved
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CommentMy digital life ... John Davies
Twitter is out, but YouTube is in for this bargain-hunting head of sustainability
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CommentThe outlook for outsourcing
Services groups that don’t share Kier’s pessimism about public sector outsourcing might do well to remind themselves exactly how local politics works
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CommentWonders & blunders with Matthew Cousins
Matthew Cousins follows the yellow brick road to the diverse Accordia housing development in Cambridge - but is stopped in his tracks by a soulless Libeskind building in Holloway
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CommentDerelection and duty
Does a council have the right to step in if a building is falling down and the owner does nothing? It’s not quite that simple …
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CommentConstruction employment holds up in 2011 - but fears remain over job prospects
Flat national picture masks significant regional variations that bode poorly for the North
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CommentWhy not NewBuy to Let?
Yolande Barnes asks if the government mortgage scheme can be extended to institutional landlords
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CommentBy how many will NewBuy boost house-building numbers?
A useful bump, maybe. But the Government scheme is unlikely to have a major impact on overall home sales.
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CommentLatest construction output figures support recession fears
Broadly-flat figures should not lull us into donning rose-tinted spectacles, argues Brian Green
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CommentWest Tankers vs Allianz Spa and others: Declaratory award
This case highlighted the court’s power to allow an arbitral award to be entered as judgment, a broader interpretation of section 66 of the Arbitration Act
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CommentA quick guide to creditors' voluntary liquidation
A quick guide to the process of creditors’ voluntary liquidation (CVL) of an insolvent company under the Insolvency Act 1986
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CommentPlaying global
How do you apply the UK QS model to an international one? The complexity of global client management is about the only thing everyone agrees on
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CommentNew refurbishment funding is a missed opportunity for energy efficiency
A pot of £70m is being distributed to bring empty properties into use - and what better opportunity to undertake a deep low carbon retrofit?
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Comment'History of mis-selling could threaten Green Deal success'
Careful oversight of the Green Deal is needed to prevent breaches of the code of conduct leading to the swift discrediting of the concept
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CommentHansom: We happy few
It’s a good news week with tales of a chuffed chief exec, punctual projects, a royal baking challenge and a party for the lucky teams that made it onto the exclusive Building Awards shortlist
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Inbox: Unbelievable
This week, readers are incredulous at the suggestion that consultants may be replaced with civil servants to lead projects and in total disbelief at the mess the school building programme is in
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CommentSustainability: Nothing but 'faddy ideology' for the government?
Verbal faux pas are just one symptom of the coalition’s growing apathy towards the promotion of the green agenda in construction, says Richard Steer