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CommentWonders and blunders with Brian Teale
Brian Teale admires the futuristic Eden Project鈥檚 stately leisure domes, but derides the millennial O2 Centre as a very expensive tent
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CommentHousing for older people: An age-old problem
With an ever-growing elderly population - many of whom need state aid for housing - the public and private sectors must work together to find new ways to provide the amount and type of housing that our older people need
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CommentUK needs housing crisis solution
The UK must look overseas for solutions to its housing crisis if it wishes to succed, writes Peter Vaughan
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CommentLower help to buy threshold
The government should consider lowering the threshold towards the average house or flat price
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CommentRevenge of the subcontractors - coming to a building site near you?
Yes, most commentators are upbeat about the construction market but we have new problems: lack of supply and rising prices
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CommentBIM: Is this the beginning or the end?
The big challenge is improving how buildings perform post occupancy, and that鈥檚 where FM teams can take the lead
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CommentThe iniquity of 'one in, two out'
The government鈥檚 blunt effort to reduce the burden of regulation on our industry seems to be having perverse consequences
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CommentLet's use ECO extension to reshape the market
ECO is fundamentally flawed but we can build something better if we just stick to three simple rules
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CommentPPPs and global growth go hand in hand
The scale of global infrastructure projects, including those in the UK, means that finding private finance is essential
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CommentData, information, knowledge, wisdom... and BIM
Are we in danger of focusing too much on the process of creating BIM models and not enough on how the models actually affect projects?
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CommentSmart buildings need smart people
Changes in building performance technology is a huge area of opportunity for architects and engineers entering the profession
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CommentGetting energy investment is not rocket science
The government needs to provide the market confidence investors need to put money in to new infrastructure
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CommentLearning lessons from past recoveries
We need clients and the industry to work together so that as prices rise they do so gradually and sustainably
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CommentThe construction industry is holding up infrastructure development
We blame long public consultations for delaying big projects, but actually we鈥檙e at fault for not giving the public adequate data
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CommentBoris needs to reassess his energy priorities
The London mayor鈥檚 focus on distributed energy generation risks missing the greater prize of energy efficiency
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CommentRetrofit for health
As we build new communities and remodel and retrofit existing towns and cities, we should see ourselves as the new front line in health provision
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CommentIreland: Green shoots
Architects working in Ireland hit rock bottom during the recession, but gradually activity seems to be picking up
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CommentBMG vs Galliford Try and Aedas Architects Limited: Expert shopping?
In this case Mr Justice Edwards-Stuart had to decide whether one of the parties had valid reasons to replace the expert they had appointed
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CommentMy digital life 鈥� Ben Walker
The LDA Design principal landscape architect on Katy Perry, scaffolding boards, and forgetting to log out of Facebook
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CommentDelivering on our promises
BIM has led to some excellent networks and discussion groups, but we must remember that the reason for new technology is to improve outcomes