Opinion – Page 315

  • /w/e/p/Style___2009_07_2c7CCEA.jpg
    Comment

    My digital life: Leigh Jennings

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Are you into social networking?

  • /q/o/s/IMG_3816.jpg
    Comment

    ǿմý buys a pint … for Cameron Black

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    “And what about Stuart sleeping in the Scooby Doo costume?” laughs Alison. All heads turn to Stuart

  • /c/g/l/hansom_ipod.jpg
    Comment

    Hansom: Under cover

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Our usual quest to stick our noses into the private business of others takes us from the corridors of power at the RICS to a private betting circle, pausing briefly to admire some tugs in Afghanistan

  • Left to right: David Leventhal, Lee Polisano and Ron Bakker consider the possibility that it will rain later …
    Comment

    PLP: So business is looking up?

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Remember the Polisano crew who busted out of Kohn Pedersen Fox and started up on their own? That must have been a year ago now. Emily Wright found out what happened to them next

  • This house was designed to be highly sustainable – and it is!
    Comment

    You've got the wrong house

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    I was very disappointed to read the main headline accompanying your article on the energy performance gap in new house building (“This house has been designed to be highly sustainable

  • Comment

    Restructure or be left behind

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest ǿմý’s recent article on the data for construction from the Office for National Statistics (“Newport, we have a problem”, 20 August, building.co.uk)

  • Comment

    What's wrong with Laing O'Rourke

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Further to your article about Laing O’Rourke laying off 17,500 workers, when I worked there I only ever got in trouble for telling them their business models were flawed

  • Comment

    A nonsulting request

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Those of your readers who managed to read e-ǿմý on their sandy beach may have noticed the pretty fundamental consultation launched by Andrew Stunell, the Minister for ǿմý Regulations (“What would you do with the Regs, 6 August, page 20)

  • Comment

    The train line

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    News that the likes of BT and Network Rail have been inundated with applicants for their apprenticeship programmes should be welcomed.

  • /w/k/s/cacvvv.jpg
    Comment

    It's just a step to the left ...

    2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Our thanks, and the usual £25 voucher, go to Mukesh Modhvadia, a commercial manager at the King’s Cross Redevelopment Programme, for these aerobic pictures of a window cleaner living dangerously.

  • Comment

    A guide to Queensland's construction law

    2010-09-02T12:07:00Z

    Australia is one of the few places in the world experiencing something of a building boom and if you’re a UK firm keen to get involved, you might like to go to Queensland, where things are pleasantly familiar.

  • Comment

    A double-dip in house prices isn’t really the problem

    2010-09-02T12:32:46.023Z

    The fall in transactions is going to hit the housebuilding industry much harder

  • Comment

    Rachel Shaw: 'This is not the end of exciting education buildings'

    2010-09-01T12:58:00Z

    Cuts to BSF have meant a sea change for architects working in the education sector and the focus is on making existing buildings work better

  • Passivhaus refurb week 1
    Comment

    Passivhaus refurb diary, part 5: airtightness testing, take two

    2010-08-31T10:21:00Z

    The team behind the retrofit of an Edwardian property using Passivhaus principles run a second airtightness test

  • Thomas Lane
    Comment

    The fire alarm is ringing

    2010-08-27T00:00:00Z

    It’s official: if a timber-frame building catches fire, it will suffer more damage than if it were built using other forms of construction

  • Improvised theatre
    Comment

    Improvised theatre

    2010-08-27T00:00:00Z

    This week the strangest drama venue in London opens on the South Bank. And, as Martin Spring found out, it’s a brilliant performance by an 80-strong cast

  • Legal cartoon, lawyer with wig
    Comment

    Lorraine Lee vs Chartered Properties: A late adjudicator

    2010-08-27T00:00:00Z

    In this case the adjudicator’s mistake was to take the weekend to type up his decision, here’s why…

  • Gus Alexander
    Comment

    Country matters

    2010-08-27T00:00:00Z

    For the architect, the country offers variety, novelty and the prospect of tanned craftsmen toiling in the wolds. But if you want control over a project, stick to the city

  • /n/u/p/Untitled_1.jpg
    Comment

    Quentin Shears: Can you erect a tent without pegs?

    2010-08-27T00:00:00Z

    The cladding contractor hit her brother with a tent pole. ’Children! You can’t fight. This is an NEC contract!’

  • It ain't half hot, cold and muddy
    Comment

    It ain't half hot, cold and muddy

    2010-08-27T00:00:00Z

    Russian veteran Harvey Smith tells us how to cope with a 74ºC annual temperature range, find unusual ways to lift a 12-tonne spire - and why Ladas are better cars than Range Rovers