All Industry comments articles – Page 39

  • Angela Monaghan
    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV

    Down the tube

    2006-11-24T09:47:00Z

    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV's news editor relives Monday's communter hell when London's tube almost ground to a halt and Metronet received a £1m slap on the wrist

  • Sarah Richardson
    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV

    Halcrow's flights of fancy

    2006-11-14T14:57:00Z

    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV's senior reporter celebrated Halcrow's reburbishment of Kelvingrove museum in Glasgow and then got into a dogfight with the engineers

  • Kevin Sansbury
    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV

    Picture perfect

    2006-11-09T19:08:00Z

    Our photo-blogger is the former head of photography at the BRE so his regular insights into capturing perfect construction images should prove instructive

  • Jo Smit
    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV

    Meet the parents

    2006-11-08T09:53:00Z

    The opening of the Hall of Fame exhibition at the ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Centre this week was a chance to hobnob with the great and the good in construction, and in some cases their parents ...

  • Mark Leftly
    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV

    Jack's Olympic broadside

    2006-11-01T08:08:00Z

    Jack Lemley assertion that working on the London Olympics could have ruined his reputation for delivering projects on time will hit the confidence of all those involved

  • Jo Smit
    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV

    Reeling in Richmond’s gas guzzlers

    2006-10-25T12:30:00Z

    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV’s Regenerate editor is feeling victimised by Richmond council’s stealth tax on oversized cars.

  • Tom Broughton
    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV

    Road rage

    2006-10-25T10:15:00Z

    You'd expect the victim of a number plate fraud to receive some sympathy from the council's parking services, not be pursued for offences he can prove he didn't commit. But then local authorities' lack of basic common sense is something the building industry has long come to accept, even if ...

  • Graham Watts
    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV

    Team GB needs an outsider in charge for 2012

    2006-10-23T14:31:00Z

    The resignation of Jack Lemley needn’t be a blow for the ODA as long as the new chair has a similar independent streak and a rigorous approach to procurement

  • Vikki Miller
    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV

    The great man's great night

    2006-10-20T14:12:00Z

    Vikki Miller was at the Stirling prize ceremony to witness the grand man of architecture Richard Rogers take his trophy, as well as some strange behaviour from Mariella Frostrup and Kevin McCloud

  • Jo Smit
    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV

    Watch out Chardonnay housebuilders' wives have moved in

    2006-10-19T10:01:00Z

    Regenerate's editor spends a lot of time in the company of housebuilders but thankfully none resemble the fictional boss of Whitewater Contractors

  • ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV

    Compulsive viewing

    2006-10-13T17:43:00Z

    Al Gore's hit film An Inconvenient Truth has struck a chord in the industry, but how much will it change as a result? The inconveniently true answer is probably not a great deal

  • Mark Leftly
    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV

    Calling all PFI gurus ...

    2006-10-11T13:57:00Z

    Want to be in charge of billions of pounds of PFI procurement and have a say in the country's future hospitals, roads and schools? Well, there's a job going at the Treasury - the only snag is that none of the front-runners seem interesting in applying

  • Vikki Miller
    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV

    Putting dinosaurs on bicycles

    2006-10-04T14:47:00Z

    Conservative grass root members are being asked to give up their 4x4s for a place in David Cameron's green utopia but will they change habits of a lifetime

  • Tom Broughton
    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV

    Putting everything on Brown

    2006-10-03T15:43:00Z

    Will Nigel Griffiths have time to back another political horse if Gordon Brown stumbles before the leadership election

  • Mark Leftly
    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV

    Tony the comedian wins a stay of execution

    2006-09-26T17:26:00Z

    The primeminister was on fine form at the Labour party conference and ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV's assistant editor thinks he may even miss him once he's gone

  • Tom Broughton
    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV

    Bet fair

    2006-09-25T12:54:00Z

    The business of betting on project completion dates gives rise to the possibility of 'insider dealing' among construction professionals

  • David Rogers
    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV

    Murder on the Blueberry Estate

    2006-09-22T09:00:00Z

    Chapter one of David Roger's regeneration murder-mystery story set in east London

  • Jo Smit
    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV

    The big switch off

    2006-09-21T16:35:00Z

    Electrisave has a gadget that enables you to see how much money your wasting on energy in your home, the only problem is you end up being an energy-saving addict who lives in the dark and never offers cups of tea for fear of boiling the kettle ...

  • Thomas Lane
    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV

    London’s new garden suburb

    2006-09-19T12:40:00Z

    The first shoots of new development are emerging from the brownfields of North Kent. ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV’s technical editor wonders if he’d ever be tempted to leave Greenwich for Ebbsfleet

  • Mark Leftly
    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV

    Keep your shorts on, Thierry

    2006-09-15T10:21:00Z

    The Arsenal Emirates stadium may be the crowning achievement of the construction industry this year, but as a venue for a press do its becoming a bit passé...