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Construction Reform

Innovation in Construction Services

Scoping study for research into how consultancies innovate.
Commissioned by BERR, August 2007. Unpublished.

Getting Value from the Team

Presentation to Property Asset Management conference, 2006.

Be Valuable: creating value in the built environment
(PDF Document - 2.4MB)

Report published by Constructing Excellence 2005.

Povey Lecture

Lecture to the JCT in their series honouring its former secretary. 2003.

nCRISP Think Piece

A business model for UK Construction. 2003

The Industry formerly known as Construction
(PDF Document 120Kb)

Article in Building Research and Infomation on the
Fairclough Report on Construction Research. 2003

Just the Facts

Article on Renewable Energy without the Hot Air ,
by David MacKay, in RIBA Journal 2009.

Valuing Sustainability (PDF Document 102Kb)

Lecture given at New Hall, Cambridge, in their series
Environment on the Edge , March 2007

Future of Architecture

Building Information Modelling: enabling the future

Keynote address to RIBA-BSRIA Conference, 2009;
also published in RIBA Journal 2009.

Evidence Based Design

Foreword to planned book of a conference on the subject, 2008.

Should protection of title be abolished?

Debate piece for Building Design, 2008.

Integration

Talk delivered to the CIBSE Rumford Club, November 2008

The Next Architect

Article reviewing the book of that title; unpublished 2008

Integrated Project Delivery

Review of AIA promotion of this method; unpublished 2008

The Future of the Architectural Profession: a question of values
(PDF Document 234Kb)

Milo Lecture for the Company of Chartered
Architects at the RIBA. 2006

The Research Practice Needs

Article for Scroope 16, magazine of the University of Cambridge
School of Architecture, 2004.

High Street Schools: schools as catalysts of sustainable communities

Article for Regeneration magazine 2007

Thoughts after the World Business Districts Summit

Article for the Architects Journal, March 2008

Enterprise Culture

Contribution to the City Heritage Society meeting
We need more Front Doors , January 2009

Atrium Books

A note on the two books I wrote in 1983 and 1993
which have become the standard works on the history
and design of the atrium building type

Watermark Place

Review of a City of London office building
for Architecture Today, 2009

Home Run

Review of the Bouygues book Home about their
construction of the new Home Office building, for
RIBA Journal 2007

Architects Income

Mastering the Paycheque 06-Feb-04

Architectural Research

Design or Research 23-Jan-04

Conservation Architects

Quality Controls 09-Jan-04

Outsourcing

Is India Calling? 05-Dec-03

Better Buildings Summit

Joining the Dots 21-Nov-03

Property Value

Sitting on our Assets 07-Nov-03

New York vs London

Friendly Competition 24-Oct-03

Sustainable Communities

Is London Sustainable? 10-Oct-03

Collaborative Contracts

Designing the Contract 26-Sep-03

Building Performance

Follow Through 12-Sep-03

University Education

Going with the Flow 22-Aug-03

The Professional's Choice

Human Capitalists 25-Jul-03

Skyscrapers

Reach the Stars 11-Jul-03

The Real Size of Our Industry

The Price is Right 27-Jun-03

PFI

PFI is a True Curate's Egg 13-Jun-03

The Supply Chain

Chain Reaction 30-May-03

Co-ordinated Project Information

16-May-03

City Livery Companies

Modern Classic 02-May-03

Architecture Outrecruits Other Disciplines

Design Rules 02-Apr-03

Comparing French and British Construction

French Fancy 21-Mar-03