All Construction business: strategy, risk and regulations articles – Page 22
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NewsMinisters slated for ‘unacceptable’ delivery of Green Homes Grant
National Audit Office says abandoned £1.5bn domestic retrofit discount scheme will help less than a tenth of the homes originally targeted
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OpinionThe Coach: How do we re-onboard everyone for the ‘new term’?
It’s not only new staff who will be feeling anxious, says Louise Rodgers
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NewsArchitects chase £20m L&Q design framework
Four-year deal will be open to other housing providers and local authorities
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NewsHousing associations shrink affordable build programmes as councils step up
Details of City Hall’s £3.4bn allocation also reveal threefold increase in grant rate, partly because of rising materials costs
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NewsGovernment set to confirm demolition of Grenfell Tower this month
Inquiry resumes this week with further evidence from fire safety expert Barbara Lane
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NewsCost of some materials rises more than 60% in a year
Imported plywood and fabricated structural steel among worst hit, says BEIS
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NewsGreen light for PRP’s redevelopment of Camberwell housing estate
Number of homes to increase by more than 300
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OpinionBuilding your own home is normal in most of Europe – and they don’t even need Kevin McCloud
Can the Bacon Report make self-building less scary? Grand Designs will never be the same, says David Rudlin
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NewsBrick By Brick founder announces departure
Colm Lacey praises ’wide array of exciting young architecture practices’ that have worked with the housing provider
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OpinionWhy not just make all homes accessible?
Julia Park hopes the upcoming Part M changes will recognise the pressing need to adapt for the future
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FeaturesLiving with Beauty promised much but its delivery is falling dangerously short
The government’s planning reforms are inherently contradictory and risk confusing beauty with popularity, writes Ben Derbyshire
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NewsArb asks architects to help shape new professional development system
Future of CPD ‘cannot be designed in an ivory tower’
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FeaturesInterview: Nicholas Boys Smith on design, deregulation and the Office for Place
There are few topics more controversial than planning reform and placemaking and few people more passionate about them than the chair of the new Office for Place. He talks to Joey Gardiner
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NewsHydrogen could play key role in heating buildings, says government
But much research remains to be done, long-awaited strategy admits
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NewsGovernment to quiz architects about future of the profession
Three-month call for evidence includes questions on whether Arb is fit for purpose
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FeaturesWestminster’s heartbreaking work of staggering folly
The Marble Arch Mound is no laughing matter, writes Will Jennings
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OpinionOn building safety, professional qualifications should count
The new safety bill aims to mandate competence, but it would make much more sense to mandate qualifications
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NewsWestminster’s deputy leader quits as MVRDV Mound costs spiral
£6m tourist attraction became international laughing stock
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News80% of architects report projects delayed by planning logjam
Slow processing of planning applications is delaying or even derailing schemes, Future Trends finds