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The construction industry, in all its guises, continues to suffer from poor quality control and numerous attempts to improve have yet to bear fruit. Sadly, skills shortages only make the risk of defects greater.
Perhaps the remuneration committees of large construction companies need to reward their senior staff more for customer satisfaction/quality and less for profit.
David Kearney
Our clerk of works inspects their plots for housing associations. We’ve been telling them these issues for years!
Paul Jacobs
CM 06/01
The suggested number of passengers travelling on HS2 travel based on the number of trains per hour is very unlikely to be achieved.
If that number of people need to travel, then British business is very inefficient and not using modern communications.
The budget for HS2 would be better spent on improving the present network.
Roger Ward
Could it be that Lord Berkeley does not understand the chief benefit of HS2, as I did not until it was explained to me recently?
Lord Berkeley says economists increasingly agree that far greater economic growth and increases in productivity would be achieved by public investment in rail, road and bus services that increase the ‘travel to work’ areas of our major cities in the Midlands and the north than by any new major north-to-south high-speed intercity services.
But that is exactly what HS2 does. It takes the fast trains off the existing lines and frees them up for a huge increase in slow/stopping services, which are the ‘travel to work’ services that Lord Berkeley refers to.
Adam Dowling
CM 13/01
Brilliant. There are other companies out there that ought to consider a similar idea. We don’t want to lose information like this. Maybe CIOB could set up something on their website. I could see this becoming something really big.
Sean Morgan
A great idea. Nostalgic. I did not work on those projects but it brought to mind Easiform housing at St Budeaux, Plymouth, Portishead power station (I still have a framed picture of the turbine hall), and later copper mines in Northern Rhodesia and also various civils jobs in South Africa. All fondly remembered work and colleagues.
Colin Emsley
Many individuals will also have worthwhile contributions from the pre-digital era.
Chris Purves
These photos are fantastic, especially the one with the young boy and the man. The boy and the man viewing Coventry Cathedral – we think we are so clever installing viewing panels in the hoarding – so credit to John Laing site management to have this vision.
Denis Lawler
CM 17/12
The UK is way behind the rest of Europe in the use of external blinds/shutters to reduce overheating and provide security. As our summers heat up, we will need to overcome our design prejudices and use them as standard.
Glad to see that the Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is considering the issue – although I am sure that metal blinds are a non-combustible option anyway.
Rosemary Slater
