All Comment articles – Page 312

  • Dominique Helps
    Comment

    Walter Lilly vs Mackay: A question of timing

    2012-08-03T00:00:00Z

    A recent judgment has ended once and for all the long-running debate over who takes a hit when both parties in a contract have contributed to delays

  • hansom for i pad
    Comment

    Hansom: Games, set and match

    2012-08-03T00:00:00Z

    In the week the Olympics hit town, ministers blame rainy days for construction’s part in the double-dip recession, some super-heroic charity fundraising efforts and NLA’s Peter Murray tells it like it is

  • Nick Raynsford
    Comment

    The New Homes Bonus: Home truths

    2012-08-03T00:00:00Z

    The coalition’s much vaunted New Homes Bonus to increase housebuilding is falling victim to perverse incentives, lazy definitions and unsustainable cost

  • The Blade
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders with Mike Jacob

    2012-08-03T00:00:00Z

    The owner of Trunk Low Energy Ðǿմ«Ã½ is filled with nostalgic wonder every time he glimpses the Emley Moor transmitting station, but cringes at The Blade, Reading’s attempt at becoming a city

  • microphone
    Comment

    How to use an architect

    2012-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Open mike The profession’s leadership skills and long-term approach to value hold the key to cutting public sector building costs by 20%

  • Tony Bingham
    Comment

    Could we just add a staircase here, perhaps?

    2012-08-03T00:00:00Z

    The Giles Mackay case shows the folly of using a lump-sum contract on a project where the amateur client, inspired by House & Garden, wants a hand in the design…

  • Assad
    Comment

    BIM and PPC2000: In top form

    2012-08-03T00:00:00Z

    As BIM embeds itself deeper in the construction industry, contracts that facilitate collaboration in the project team are becoming vital. PPC2000 is one of these…

  • Mark Farrar
    Comment

    Don't use the recession as an excuse to stop training

    2012-07-31T11:11:00Z

    CITB-ConstructionSkills chief executive Mark Farrar argues why now is the time to upskill your workforce

  • Davis Langdon
    Comment

    My digital life ... Vincent Kane

    2012-07-31T00:01:00Z

    Davis Langdon’s head of culture reveals his online addictions and why he loves the Barclays Boris Bike app

  • Comment

    Thanks for registering for the Ðǿմ«Ã½ Good Employers' Guide 2012

    2012-07-30T00:00:00Z

    You can now download the entry form here and will be sent a link to a short staff survey soon.      

  • lindy patterson
    Comment

    Turn on the power

    2012-07-27T00:00:00Z

    In the first of three articles looking at key risks for contractors on energy projects, we examine a typical contract structure for a power station build

  • alastair stewart
    Comment

    PFI: Road to nowhere

    2012-07-27T00:00:00Z

    The coalition’s attempts to attract private finance to infrastructure projects merely postpones the inevitable return to PFI

  • Olympic Stadium
    Comment

    Lost opportunities

    2012-07-27T00:00:00Z

    The no marketing rules are impeding knowledge sharing as well as publicity opportunities

  • Ken gillespie
    Comment

    Let’s get radical

    2012-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Yes, please for more infrastructure investment - but let’s make sure enlightened procurement becomes the rule rather than the exception

  • mug joey
    Comment

    A job well done

    2012-07-27T00:00:00Z

    The Olympic build is a massive achievement for the industry – let’s hope its passing is not the end of a golden age

  • hansom for i pad
    Comment

    Hansom: Hidden depths

    2012-07-27T00:00:00Z

    This week, Grant Shapps is unmasked as a ‘bot’, RIBA’s Angela Brady reveals herself to be multilingual (sort of), and Wilmott Dixon tries to alert school children to the hazard s of getting plastered

  • Bingham cartoon
    Comment

    Smoothing over the cracks

    2012-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Here’s a case where homeowners took a builder to court for damages when cracks appeared in their homes. The question was how to calculate what compensation to pay

  • stephen ratcliffe lead
    Comment

    Join the campaign

    2012-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Construction investment generates jobs and growth, says the UKCG boss

  • Tony Bingham
    Comment

    Calculating compensation

    2012-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Here’s a case where homeowners took a builder to court for damages when cracks appeared in their homes. The question was how to calculate what compensation to pay

  • Room for London
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders with David Bickle

    2012-07-27T00:00:00Z

    The Hawkins/Brown partner is mesmerised by Living Architecture’s enigmatic boat on the roof of London’s Southbank Centre, but all wound up about Anish Kapoor’s Orbit tower