All Construction 2025 articles – Page 8
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Cameron considers penalties for firms that pay late
Prime minister sets out a range of options for consultation to tackle the problem of late payment
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Can good design win the day?
Well-designed housing won’t always convince those opposed to development, but we need to strive for higher standards
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Older, wiser but do they listen?
With the market on the up we do need to worry about main contractors feeling the pinch as subcontractors push their margins up
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Invitation to innovate
We need to pick up the pace and find new ways of working if we’re going to do anything about climate change
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Construction 2025: A world away
In the first of a new series looking at the government’s vision set out in the Construction 2025 report, ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV asks if the opportunities it highlights for global growth really exist
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Greg Clark replaces Chloe Smith at Cabinet Office
Ministerial reshuffle also sees building regulations minister Don Foster leave role to become Liberal Democrat chief whip
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Distinctive exports are key to industry’s future
Construction 2025 aspires to increase UK exports 50%, which looks ambitious but I see big opportunities for UK firms abroad
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Help the next generation build the future
How do we inspire the next generation to pursue a career in construction? And are we in the industry doing enough to educate young people about the variety of careers in the sector
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CH2M Hill ‘must act’ on Qatar 2022 worker exploitation
Programme manager on World Cup asked to intervene on build project that ‘could cost up to 4,000 lives’
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We can learn much from Coventry's apprenticeship scheme
The award-winning apprenticeship scheme in Coventry offers a personalised approach that should be repeated elsewhere
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Corruption 'still common' in construction
CIOB survey finds that more than one in three construction professionals have been offered a bribe or incentive
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BIM: A romance of many dimensions
Thanks to the introduction of BIM, two-dimensional geometry is no longer sufficient for QSs
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How to jump the skills gap
As new orders flood in, atttracting and retaining experienced workers becomes ever more vital
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BIM: The latest big boys' toy?
SMEs struggle to adopt BIM because of the cost, so it’s up to the big industry names to lend a helping hand
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Don't throw out waste regulation
If the government goes ahead with scrapping Site Waste Management Plans it is far from being the ‘greenest ever’
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Replenishing the industry's workforce
Attracting and retaining new workers to construction will require a new approach to education and training
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ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV performance: Aspiration vs reality
Until buildings are installed exactly as designed and developers are involved with building performance in the long term, we will never achieve whole life value
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The CIOB moves into the future
The CIOB is in the process of modernising - and the industry also needs to step into the future
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Where are all the young QSs?
We need to tell the younger generation how much quantity surveying has to offer as a career, before the skills gap gets too big to fill
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Social media and BIM
BIM is being embraced by the social media generation and it is a disguse for a complete revolution in construction