All Comment articles – Page 18
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‘My boss was asking where I was’
A labourer is desperate to stop work … but feels he can’t
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‘I just wish his employer cared about his staff’
The wife of a site worker required to continue throughout the coronavirus pandemic tells her story
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We must keep building to continue investing in our future
Government has some critical lessons to learn from the 2008 crash
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The Grenfell inquiry is an 18-month process, we must not rush to judgment
Lots more evidence still to come, says Elizabeth Hopkirk
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Investors back Andrew Davies’ vision for Kier
Dave Rogers on the way ahead for Kier, its housing arm and its jobs
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Social media and another regional firm: #gonebust
Staff at Astins share their tales of woe on social mediaÂ
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HS2: Get a move on, prime minister
Will HS2 go ahead? Decision time for the project nears.Â
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Late payments damage more than balance sheets
The mental health crisis caused by poor payment practices must be cured, not just medicated, as small businesses report alarming figures
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Budget 2020: How not to waste £100bn in just five years
Sajid Javid has promised a wave of investment in the less prosperous regions. But what is the best way of splashing the cash?
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Competence: A timely cultural change for our industry
Reduced risk and better quality builds are goals we must pursue in order to regain public trust
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The Larkhill housing scheme is a lesson in collaboration
Two rival firms working together to deliver homes for the British Army can teach the industry a thing or two
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ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Live: refresh yourselves
ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Live showed what contrasting opinions people have on construction issues and proved how much they care about the industry they work in
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Making promises is easy – delivering them is something else
If only we had politicians who, instead of promising the impossible, focused on what can really be delivered, and then got on with it..
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Sir Stuart Lipton: A spring in his step
Rather than settling down to a well-earned retirement at the age of 76, the developer of what will be the City’s tallest tower is turning his attention to something rather more low-rise: housing
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Brexit: Any certainty in sight?
Even firms that are scenario-planning for Brexit admit that predicting what will happen is a massive guess, so no wonder commercial architect Lee Polisano told ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV he spends a lot of time worrying about it all
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Housebuilders' salaries are healthy - but is the market as rosy as it looks?
Despite soaring salaries in the housebuilding sector, there’s an air of nervousness that the government will burst the bubble by scrapping its Help to Buy scheme
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The human toll of poor payment practices
Business failures often seem abstract and remote. How does it actually feel to go through the process of winding up your own business?
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The Tories put housing in the spotlight
The PM surprised conference with a welcome boost to council house building, but elsewhere private housebuilders got a bit of a kicking