All Comment articles – Page 415

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Housebuilding gets all shook up

    2010-06-11T12:21:00Z

    With regional spatial strategies binned, is the recent housebuilding revival in jeopardy? And what about density targets?

  • Ike Ijeh
    Comment

    Schools out

    2010-06-11T11:42:00Z

    Michael Gove’s attack on BSF has angered the construction industry, but might he have a point?

  • Quentin Shears
    Comment

    Quentin Shears: The wages of synergy

    2010-06-11T00:00:00Z

    “Usually, rebranding takes months, but the stationer’s on Potter Street had a half-price offer on business cards”

  • Comment

    Permanent secretaries

    2010-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Clearly, the government has already been mugged by Sir Humphrey and instead of sacking most of the 700,000 additional public sector workers hired under Labour they will be persuaded to slash vital infrastructure spending. No wonder Britain is a shambles.John Band

  • Comment

    We walk the line

    2010-06-11T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest Chris Wise’s article (4 June, page 23)

  • Is David Cameron, like Jim Hacker, under the thumb of the civil service?
    Comment

    Left in the lurch

    2010-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Just when I thought that we had got over the Learning and Skills Council funding debacle, it appears that it is now the turn of the affordable housing sector to suffer the implications of having allocated or “promised” government funding withdrawn

  • Just looking
    Comment

    Just looking

    2010-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Beware if you shop around for an expert, as the court may demand that you reveal the reports that you rejected

  • Comment

    It's grim up north

    2010-06-11T00:00:00Z

    With news that construction workloads have turned positive in the UK for the first time in two years, it was disappointing to learn that in Scotland the net balance of workloads remained in the red at -6%

  • Pressure drop
    Comment

    Pressure drop

    2010-06-11T00:00:00Z

    John Kees spotted this careless fellow inventing new ways to use a pressure washer

  • Rufus Wainwright
    Comment

    My digital life: Ian Durbin

    2010-06-11T00:00:00Z

    What’s your favourite website?

  • Tony Bingham
    Comment

    The death penalty

    2010-06-11T00:00:00Z

    If a company’s negligence leads to loss of life, can it be given a lenient fine if a larger one would ruin it? Here’s what the Court of Appeal said about a recent case in Scotland

  • Daniel Taylor
    Comment

    Fit-out specialist Daniel Taylor: Earning success and influence

    2010-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Office fit-out specialist Daniel Taylor could have been a roadsweeper like his dad, but instead he’s on JP Morgan’s list of the 100 most influential black people in the UK. He tells Emily Wright what got him there

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Now every penny counts

    2010-06-11T00:00:00Z

    The new PM is putting all the skills he learned as a PR to work in preparing us for his deficit reduction measures

  • Comment

    Join the club

    2010-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Further to last week’s ǿմý Forum article from a specialist subcontractor who’s having trouble getting paid, can I suggest there’s a simple answer: join the Association of Interior Specialists, the federation for your sector

  • David Mosey
    Comment

    Cheque list: Making clients' money go further

    2010-06-11T00:00:00Z

    The Housing Forum makes some suggestions

  • Hansom
    Comment

    Hansom: Sporting chances

    2010-06-11T00:00:00Z

    The industry is getting in shape, with directors tackling the high jump, architects cycling through time, Boris jogging and islanders getting ready for a long swim. And some soccer tournament, apparently

  • Comment

    CIC names Gordon Masterton as new chair

    2010-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Environment vice-president at engineer Jacobs takes over from Keith Clarke

  • Comment

    A money back guarantee

    2010-06-11T00:00:00Z

    If the coalition decided to scrap a lot of the old regime’s PFI contracts, what chance do all the preferred bidders stand of having their bid costs reimbursed?

  • Gus Alexander
    Comment

    Architects – meet the real world

    2010-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Many architects have evolved into service providers for giant PFI contractor consortiums. Which means that, if they lose their jobs, they can’t fend for themselves

  • Comment

    Architects for change

    2010-06-11T00:00:00Z

    I found ǿմý’s reporting of Paul Morrell’s comment piece (28 May, page 28) rather misleading