All Comment articles – Page 33
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Nail your colours to the mast
The question of whether the UK should remain in the European Union is a classically polarised debate
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The estates we’re in
Will Cameron’s rhetoric about regenerating the UK’s most run-down estates lead to any benefits for the people who actually live on them?
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Water, water everywhere
That the UK needs greater flood defences is a no-brainer. Getting a level of co-ordination between government departments and local authorities to make it happen is the challenge
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Dear minister...
As the festive season draws to a close it’s time to look at the big challenges for 2016. What would our columnist say to a new built environment minister about the year that lies ahead for the construction industry?
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Town and gown
If universities and the cities they’re in talked to each other more about their individual goals, they’d find plenty of overlap and opportunities to enhance their shared spaces
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Helping Nepal
What working as an engineer in Nepal’s rebuilding programme following April’s earthquake taught me
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Who turned up the heat?
Meeting carbon budgets outlined at the Paris Climate Conference is a regulation the UK might actually feel the effects of
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New year, new challenges
The industry remains on course to pass 2007 pre-recession levels next year, but it’s no time to put your feet up
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Here we go again
The government’s resolve - yet again - to postpone the decision on airport expansion shows that planning remains subservient to politics, and sets off alarm bells for the National Infrastructure Commission - which must act now to protect its authority
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Ready, action
World leaders at the Paris summit entered the final stages of negotiation over an agreement to limit carbon emissions this week
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ǿմý Live: That was the week that was
Here are seven things we learned at last week’s ǿմý Live conference
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Housebuilding: Home delivery
The government is keen to move away from `generation rent’ but are the measures it is putting in place enough to deliver the homes the country needs?
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George, the builder
Might the chancellor’s catchphrase of “we are the builders” actually have come good?
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Specs and the City
The City of London has progressed past its original Square Mile perimeter physically. Now what businesses want culturally from the urban landscape has also changed
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Touching the void
A recent decision shows the consequences of failing to disclose material facts to insurers - dangers the Insurance Act 2015 should help alleviate
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The colour of money
How much is really at stake for the sector in next week’s spending announcement?
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University of Sussex: The second act
The renovation of the University of Sussex’s arts centre transforms the space beyond an education facility to a fully fledged performance venue
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I must be dreaming …
Great is the joy over the government’s announcement of a National Infrastructure Commission. But the task it now faces is equally large
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The tipping point
With the release of a bullish set of forecasts predicting the industry’s global market will double over the next 15 years, Christmas could come early for construction
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Standing room only
Agile working isn’t a phase; it’s here to stay. As desk-to-worker ratios become tighter, it’s essential that building designers respond to the shift in office requirements