Opinion – Page 35
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CommentThe Talent Retention Scheme will help construction lead the economic recovery
It is vital firms use the initiative to avoid seeing skills disappear for good, writes Mark Reynolds
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CommentThe Building Safety Bill – the urgency of now
The new legislation will change the industry for the better, and not a moment too soon
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CommentPost covid supply chains
Iain Parker considers strengthened supply chains in the face of US-China trade wars, impending Brexit tariffs and an ongoing pandemic - plus the need to cut carbon
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CommentThe Building Safety Bill: Slow going in the right direction
Draft legislation builds could take over three years to come into force - by which time the industry must have improved competence levels
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CommentDame Judith Hackitt on the draft Building Safety Bill
Some wait to be regulated before they change, well now radical reform is coming to this industry and it better prepare
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CommentWhat will the end of lockdown spell for the high street?
A resurgence in local shopping means it is time to focus on the high street’s other uses, writes Sheppard Robson’s Claire Haywood
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CommentThe long haul back to pre-coronavirus levels of activity
Data from the ONS and OBR points to a tick-shaped not a v-shaped recovery, says Construction Products Association’s Rebecca Larkin
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CommentDesign’s social value is being overlooked - that has to change
Architects have to quantify the impact their work has on communities, says HLM’s Philip Watson
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CommentAfter Nightingale: Some lessons for construction and public procurement
A crisis triggered the need for the Nightingale hospitals but the mindset behind their construction should apply to all projects, in good times and bad
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CommentWhat do five housebuilder trading updates tell us?
Share prices are on the up, thanks to healthy order books and the stamp duty holiday surge, says Building Value’s Tony Williams
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CommentIs the chancellor’s summer statement draught proof?
This government must avoid fiscal bursts that could damage long-term investment in a low carbon economy, says UKGBC’s Julie Hirigoyen
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CommentThe industry needs clarity on workload, not £1,000 sweeteners
By the time firms can get their hands on the chancellor’s furlough bonus, it will be too late for many
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CommentCare homes: How to design out infection and design in wellbeing
Covid-19 has laid bare how problematic a care home setting can be, but there are ways to rethink spaces and improve lives, says PRP’s Anne-Marie Nicholson
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CommentPM’s promise to accelerate work must not put speed before quality
Rushing work and cutting corners will have long-term consequences for jobs, says risk management specialist Jacqueline Hughes
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CommentAsking how much net zero will cost is the wrong question
Aside from environmental damage businesses face a bleak future if they do not tackle this challenge right now, says ISG’s Debbie Hobbs
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CommentWhy the Jenrick saga has dented faith in the planning system
Public support for housing development is dependent on the perception of fairness and impartiality
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Belt and braces
While the on-site approach to the pandemic seems to be that you can never have too many health and safety signs, those working from home are taking the opposite approach in terms of trousers
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CommentCriticism of industry progress towards net zero is undeserved
Cundall’s Alan Fogarty says the industry has made significant steps towards net zero despite the Committee for Climate Change’s recent thumbs down
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CommentSlogans are all well and good but now we need action
Industry needs to see more detail of prime minister’s post-covid recovery plans, says Aecom’s UK chief David Barwell
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CommentBuild, Build, Build: Big on rhetoric, but no new money yet
Today’s speech by the PM is a welcome shot in the arm for construction, but while he has sped up spending there is no new stimulus - and no mention of retrofitting homes