Opinion

Twitter is about people having conversations online. It’s not just a new way of broadcasting messages, or about personal chat (although it can also be used for both).

Picture the scene; you’ve been to the open day, networked with the potential client, had your internal meetings, completed the PQQ, been shortlisted and submitted your tender.

You wait for ages for a green deal and then two come along at once. As Construction News’ Jack Sidders reports this week, the government plans to introduce new incentives for housebuilders to build more zero-carbon homes.

Arbitration clauses could be described as Cinderella clauses.

Last week’s announcement on renewable energy subsidies disappointed as many people as it pleased, as you would expect when different technologies are vying to prove their viability.

There’s one thing we’re all led to believe about technology: it’s supposed to make our lives easier. What’s more, in an age when marketers are being challenged to slash overheads, do more in less time and save carbon, surely technology can provide some help there too, can’t it?

Aggregate Industries director of sustainable construction Miles Watkins gives his view of George Osborne’s second Budget.

The changes announced by the Chancellor to fuel duty are equivalent to a saving of 4 pence on the levy, Construction Products Association economics director Noble Francis has calculated.

Not-for-profit business group the Forum of Private Business argues tax and red tape plans should have gone further.

Construction-boosting measures announced in today’s Budget will fail to overcome the prevailing economic conditions, the chairman of cost consultants Gleeds has warned.