Good morning, and welcome to Daily View on the day which sees New York’s Chrysler Building celebrate its 80th birthday. Completed in 1930, it was the tallest building in the world for all of 11 months, before being replaced by the Empire State Building. After 9/11, it is once again the second tallest building

The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the results today of their, three-year scientific and technical building and fire safety investigation into the collapse of WTC 7 on 9/11 - which has intrigued many observers. The fall of the 47-story World Trade Center building 7 (WTC 7) was "primarily due to fires," and "was the first known instanc...

As part of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, all banks and building societies will be forced to pay the interest on the loan. The 59 building societies have to pay some 18% of the amount, around £81 million a year. The Building Societies Association is furious. BSA Director General Adrian Coles told the BBC he believes that is unfair: "It is galling that those institutions that beh...

Gordon Brown yesterday made his clearest pledge yet that he will lift restrictions preventing councils from building more homes, possibly by allowing more of them to set up construction companies or providing short term finance for stalled public-private building programmes. Downing Street policymakers regard councils as one of the quickest ways to keep a house building programme alive because the...

Building up traffic to a local party or councillor website is much like building up a delivery network: it brings big benefits, but it’s not the sort of thing you can do overnight. They are both best achieved by making slow and steady progress over a period of time. Steadily work your way down the

As we all know and have sniggered about the Parliament's Strasbourg HQ has had a few troubles of late. But I can hereby reveal the reason behind the mystery of the new wing of the Brussels building and why it is over a year behind. The new building, currently called BD5 is a 39,000 sq metre extension full of offices and large conference rooms. And was supposed to have been open over a year ag...

As some of you may know from my previous postings, one of my responsibilities in Government is the Building Regulations. So far, so dull, right? On the face of it, you might be forgiven for thinking so, but the building regulations offer a number of key tools and levers to tackle the carbon emissions produced

An agreement between 43 building organisations to cut carbon emissions is launched.

From The Independent: All the building societies that transformed themselves into banks quoted on the stock exchange between 1989, starting with the old Abbey National, and 2000, when Bradford & Bingley took the plunge, have either failed or had to be rescued. Following Bradford & Bingley’s demise, there is not one left. Meanwhile the building societies which

News just in The ING bank in the Spaak building of the European Parliament has just been robbed. Apparently somebody just walked through security, wandered uinto the bank, threatened the staff (with what we do not know) demnaded they hand over the cash. The cashier did. The thief then calmly picked it up and walked out off the building. The Parliament security then dashed round the PHS building de...