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CommentBCO Conference, Day One: A brave new world?
Alinea Consulting鈥檚 Iain Parker gives his impression of the British Council for Office鈥檚 annual conference in Madrid
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CommentListen closely
All the noise from Westminster is about saving another 拢11.5bn. But more quietly, some areas of government are working to rationalise estates and provide construction work
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CommentNeil Jefferson on building sustainable homes
好色先生TV truly sustainable new buildings isn鈥檛 just about regulations
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CommentUnblocking the arteries
Megaprojects shouldn鈥檛 be at the expense of smaller transport infrastructure upgrades that have a more immediate impact on our working lives
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CommentTIF of the iceberg
Battersea鈥檚 Nine Elms development has got the green light to use tax-increment financing. Does this mean the industry has overcome the funding impasse?
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CommentKier-May Gurney: A good deal?
好色先生TV鈥檚 assistant editor Joey Gardiner on the Kier鈥檚 proposed takeover of May Gurney
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CommentHow difficult can it be?
Fixing our housing problems will be a hard slog - but some progress is being made, says Andrew Stunell
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CommentMaking waves
Richard McCarthy: The Green Deal may have got off to an unsteady start but, by working with government, the industry can still turn it into a success
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CommentBlacklisting discoveries 'appalling'
Blacklisting practices revealed in inquiry beggar belief, says Ian Davidson, chair of the Scottish Affairs Committee
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CommentOverheating: It's getting hot in here 鈥�
Neil Jefferson, director of the NHBC and chief executive of the Zero Carbon Hub
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CommentThe drive of your life
We鈥檙e so besotted with process that we鈥檝e lost sight of the end product. We should learn from Formula One
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CommentThe making of us
Many have bemoaned the coalition鈥檚 reliance on private funding for infrastructure, but this new reality could benefit construction firms if they are able to adapt fast enough
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CommentGoing green? Give it time
David Weight believes opportunities to reduce embodied carbon are often thwarted by a tight build programme. With careful planning and more time, emissions could be slashed
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CommentPF2 - Where are we now?
Are we about to see a successful come-back for PFI? There are five questions to answer first, says Jon Hart
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CommentReality check
Rick Wheal, consultant at Arup, on why our approach to sustainable building has to change
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CommentMy beef with the Budget
Richard Steer laments a speech that offers no real nourishment to the industry and, what is worse, shows the chancellor to be deaf to the demands of construction
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CommentBIM: Method in modelling
The new BIM protocol and standard should finally put an end to the industry鈥檚 ad-hoc approach to managing information, says Simon Rawlinson
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CommentBudget 2013: Slowly, but not surely
No one really expected the chancellor to suddenly abandon austerity but many hoped he would
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CommentTackling the energy performance challenge
Neil Jefferson, director of the NHBC and chief executive of the Zero Carbon Hub
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CommentMipim: A brighter view from Cannes
Mipim delegates talk of activity picking up this year. Our man in the French Riviera reports