Opinion 鈥� Page 179
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CommentWho鈥檚 responsible for making the Green Deal work?
The government should have realised long ago that small firms were best placed to deliver its flagship scheme
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CommentBIM: Quit talking, what we need is action!
I believe we remain no closer to achieving our 2016 BIM goals than we were in 2012
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CommentThe decline and fall of architecture
The first of three blogs on the role of architecture in the modern econony examines the causes of the profession鈥檚 fall from grace
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CommentWhat can Boris Johnson learn from NYC's outgoing mayor?
The Big Apple鈥檚 architecture, infrastructure and public realm have been transformed by Michael Bloomberg
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CommentOpportunity continues to beckon in Russia
Russia provides a long-term opportunity for UK construction, despite the market鈥檚 drawbacks
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CommentSurfing the waves
Any surfer dude will tell you that every seventh wave is a big one, and so it is with the value of UK construction and building shares
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CommentA campus is a neighbourhood
If university buildings are designed as siloed developments, they will never be more than the sum of their parts
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CommentDesigning fast, building well 鈥� the Chinese way
Maintaining design quality in China鈥檚 young and bullish culture is difficult but achievable
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CommentThere's method behind Labour's attack on builders
Proposed planning changes to promote smaller sites could help deliver more homes
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CommentAndrew Mitchell MP vs News Group Newspapers Limited: Stricter approach to relief from sanctions
Sanctions were imposed on the MP due to a failure to submit cost budgets an adequate space of time before the case management hearing
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CommentDoing the robot
For an industry still, largely, employing the same methods of construction as it did five decades ago, advances in technology represent an opportunity to explore more efficient ways of working
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CommentStill building on weak foundations
Never again, said the civil servants running the programme. But the truth is that the reliance of social housing on cross-subsidy has grown since, not diminished
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CommentThe blame game
It seems odd that Barker should think it鈥檚 understandable that he got it wrong, but that construction firms should have seen the lacklustre performance coming
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CommentMy digital life 鈥� Kathryn O'Callaghan
The Interiors Group head of design on her love of Pinterest, listening to Take That and organising her life with a Mac
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CommentWill Help to Buy boost supply long term?
The uncertainty created by its 2016 end date means housebuilders may not ramp up production as quickly as hoped
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CommentA lesson in boldness - again - from Germany
Germany鈥檚 decision to replace its fleet of nuclear power stations is putting it at the forefront of renewable energy generation
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CommentHansom: Feelings of nostalgia
We say goodbye to a respected old colleague; the smell of tarmac takes us back to our Olympic glory days; we remember when folk gave to charity; plus, nothing beats a good old cup of tea and a building made of cake
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CommentDavos, irony and how wealth disparity shapes our cities
It is not without some irony that the big discussion emerging this year at Davos is growing wealth inequalities