All articles by Denise Chevin

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Low carbon agenda: Mixed greens

    2010-07-30T00:00:00Z

    To a minister in Whitehall, bringing forward regs changes by a year may not seem like much of a leap. But for firms in the real world, it promises massive disruption

  • Denise Chevin
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    The times they have a-changed

    2010-07-23T00:00:00Z

    When the head of construction at John Lewis says competitive tendering gets projects done for 10% less than partnering, it’s clear the paradigm has shifted

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Alternative medicine

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    The gp consortiums will not be a few go-getting practices clubbing together - they’ll be huge organisations that operate over whole counties

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    BSF: A sorry end

    2010-07-09T00:00:00Z

    BSF is dead, slain this week by Michael Gove and the Treasury

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    US consultanting giants: About the size of it

    2010-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Clients who have had a close relationship with a consultant they see as independent and free thinking could hesitate before employing a more impersonal multinational

  • Comment

    Degrees of awfulness

    2010-06-24T11:51:00Z

    George Osborne’s Budget isn’t as bad as we feared – but it’s still going to hurt

  • Comment

    Existing contracts are next coalition target

    2010-06-18T17:49:00Z

    Government says it will renegotiate key contracts by 2011

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Housebuilding gets all shook up

    2010-06-11T12:21:00Z

    With regional spatial strategies binned, is the recent housebuilding revival in jeopardy? And what about density targets?

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Now every penny counts

    2010-06-11T00:00:00Z

    The new PM is putting all the skills he learned as a PR to work in preparing us for his deficit reduction measures

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    The HCA must survive

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    We’re living in anxious times. And if you’re in the social housing world, it’s as nerve-jangling as it gets

  • Comment

    The new austerity begins now

    2010-05-14T00:00:00Z

    One of the side effects of spending five days in limbo after the general election is that some of the construction industry might have got the funny idea that nothing much had changed

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Who gets our vote

    2010-04-30T00:00:00Z

    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV declares its intentions

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Should you join the yellow tide?

    2010-04-23T00:00:00Z

    By the time you read these words on Friday, Nick Clegg may have fumbled the second leadership debate and the public’s sudden passion for the Lib Dems could have evaporated

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Are they worth it?

    2010-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilders join bankers on the list of most-hated fat cats

  • Features

    Davis Langdon at the crossroads

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Even men with hearts of iron have reason to be concerned about whether a sale to Aecom would make financial sense

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Starving artist syndrome

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    The BA saga might be giving unions a controversial reputation, but a more organised workforce wouldn’t go amiss in the architecture profession right now

  • Comment

    Something to shout about

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    One of the best bits of news we’ve heard in a long time was delivered by Ed Miliband last week

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    The real cost of regulation

    2010-03-05T00:00:00Z

    According to the government, providing homebuyers with a plentiful supply of new homes has been an important goal for most of the past decade

  • Comment

    Surfing building.co.uk

    2010-02-26T14:19:00Z

    From today, in order to continue to invest in the high quality of journalism that you have come to expect, we are restricting access to online content to magazine subscribers only – or those of you who elect to take out online-only subscription

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    Wrong time for an overhaul

    2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Over the past few decades our system for regulating the supply of land and what can or cannot be built on it has become labyrinthine