Interesting update on my post earlier in the week on PFI. BD columnist Paul Morrell puts forward a modest proposal for the government to adopt in relation to the Building Schools for the Future programme. He worries about Whitehall’s commitment to Keynesian principles of spending our way of the recession , compared to the reality [...]
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From EPCs to drug barons
It’s always nice to be surprised during an event. I was chairing the Economics of Sustainability conference last week – worthy and important but, it could be argued, a tad dull. We’re approaching lunch and it’s gone 1pm. It’s a Monday and I’m beginning to flag a little, having had to kick off the day [...]
The legislation debate
The question about how best to embed green principles into construction – the carrot or the stick – has been an ongoing theme of this blog. It reared its head this week again at two Building magazine events – the first a conference, the second while I was interviewing winners of the Building Sustainability awards [...]
