Opinion – Page 313
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CommentWhy does BREEAM ignore embodied carbon?
Discussion about the future of BREEAM has so far not included this major element of a building’s overall carbon performance
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CommentMore regulation isn't the answer to poor design
Boris Johnson’s housing design standards won’t be as effective as simply giving consumers tools to make an educated choice at the point of sale
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CommentIt will take a joint effort to improve BREEAM
If we want an effective way to rate refurbs and fit-outs we need the BRE and the RICS to work together, argues RICS head of policy
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CommentCoalition government’s first 100 days: the industry’s verdict
As the government marks its first 100 days with tough-talking speeches, leading industry figures give their opinion
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CommentCity Inn vs Shepherd Construction: concurrent delay
This case went all the way to Scotland’s Inner House where the court backed a practical approach to analysing the causes of delay
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CommentHansom: The end is nigh
This week, we contemplate our mortality in the form of moribund school programmes, vanishing staff, and Brits making their final exit from the Middle East … meanwhile, death stalks the Euston Road
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CommentDavis Langdon takeover: Making painful progress
So the industry’s worst-kept secret is out: Aecom is taking over Davis Langdon
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Don't trust Shapps
How surprised are we in the architectural profession that another government promise has been broken (Shapps delays definition of zero carbon, 30 July, building.co.uk)?
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Don't trust Gove
Perhaps if Michael Gove identifies where the funding was coming from for both the capital and the revenue, the Academies Bill might be more believable (Gove defends “rushed” Academies Bill, 20 July, building.co.uk)
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Right tool for the job
Your article, Government’s carbon compliance tool ’inadequate’ (2 July, building.co.uk) raises an important question: why is the government continuing to spend money expanding the capabilities of SAP, when other alternative tools are already available in the form of SBEM and DSM?
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Smaller fish are endangered
Aecom’s deal to buy Davis Langdon for £204m will further reduce the opportunity for smaller consultancies to win major projects (5 August, building.co.uk)
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With a little understanding
The “big society” is working well, then (Prescott ’growth areas’ pull plans for thousands of homes, 6 August, building.co.uk)
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CommentBSF collapse: Acrimony, angst and anger
The collapse of Building Schools for the Future has left a lot of bad feeling, but in some ways the programme deserved to die - and we now have the chance to do it better
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CommentBuilding buys a pint ... for Humberts leisure
In the seventies you used to get lots of buff women with heaving breasts in vampire films, but now it’s just buff men
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CommentDavis Langdon - An Aecom company
One of the best known and respected consultants in the UK has been bought by a US firm 10 times its size. Here, Tom Bill asks whether DL was forced into a marriage with Aecom, and what will happen to the 91-year-old brand once two become one
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CommentAbolition of regional planning strategies: NIMBYism at work?
Abolition of regional housing targets risks putting planning decision in hands of reluctant locals
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Secrets to doing business abroad
As the downturn in the UK prompts more of us to look for work further afield, working overseas presents a wholenew set of challenges. Charles Rich on to how to tackle them through cross-cultural training
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Mukund Patel: How free schools will work
Why BSF had to end and the new opportunities for construction in the next round of school delivery
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APC extras: M006 – Conflict avoidance, management and dispute resolution procedures
A mandatory competency to level 1, M006 also features as an optional competency on a range of different pathways
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M&S's Steve Fuller on collaboration
M&S’s head of construction and architecture says there should be more collaboration in the supermarket supply chain