All Buildings, Design and Specification articles – Page 14
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CommentThe designer manager: a new role that addresses a developing need
Clients, designers and project managers will all benefit if a designer manager is in place to supervise the team
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NewsSellar’s Liverpool Street station scheme submitted for planning
Decision on controversial £1.5bn overhaul expected next year
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NewsHeritage campaigners tell Gove to call in £1.5bn plan to redevelop Liverpool Street station
Proposals set for planning submission in coming weeks
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FeaturesCost model: Universities need to answer tough questions about their priorities
Aecom’s Rory Armstrong and Steven Jenkins explain what’s happening in the tertiary education sector and offer a cost model of a typical building
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NewsLiverpool Street overhaul set for planning submission in coming weeks as new images revealed
Proposals could go in to City as soon as next week
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Heading for a fall?
Construction output has been on the up, but can this continue in the face of economic uncertainty? Housebuilding in particular looks set for a fall
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NewsManchester City submits plans for £300m Etihad stadium expansion
Construction on boosted North Stand set to start in November
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NewsBath Rugby set for summer submission for stadium expansion
Wasps also reportedly mulling over plans for new ground
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NewsFosters’ plans for Oxford cancer research facility set for approval
Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine is being bankrolled by world’s seventh richest person
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FeaturesFrom the archives: Britain’s dim view of the Eiffel Tower, 1886-89
Writers in The Builder express complete disdain for the newly built Parisian landmark, describing it as a ”useless attempt to astonish the eye”
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NewsZaha Hadid starts work on £600m twin towers scheme without TfL land swap deal
Early works at Vauxhall site are now underway to save planning consent, which expires this Sunday
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FeaturesWhy build with concrete when you can build with stone?
Stone is typically stronger than concrete with one third of the carbon impact. Engineer Webb Yates is reinventing an ancient material for the modern age
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NewsLandsec’s 1,800-home O2 scheme approved following second staircase redesign
Scheme was redesigned to add second staircases following Sadiq Khan’s fire safety ruling
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NewsLandsec the latest to be caught out by London’s new second staircase rule
Developer forced to redesign 1,800-home Camden scheme following mayor’s fire safety ruling
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NewsControversial 32-storey City tower above Leadenhall Market approved
Carbon concerns dismissed by planning committee this morning
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NewsCity tower would contradict corporation’s new carbon guidance, heritage group says
Planners set to decide on Woods Bagot’s 32-storey office scheme this morning
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FeaturesDodging the seals: Antarctic project survives toughest season yet
The project team working on the £100m modernisation of the British Antarctic Survey’s flagship research station is racing against the clock to finish the cladding on a huge new facility before the winter sets in
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NewsGreen light for plans to transform historic warehouse into BBC Birmingham base
Local practice also asked to rework high-rise tower in city
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FeaturesCosting Steelwork 23: Market update
A market update from Aecom, BCSA and Steel for Life that provides guidance on costing structural steelwork
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NewsSpring Budget broadly welcomed but criticised for lack of retrofit progress
Round-up of industry reaction to announcements including £20bn for carbon capture and storage and £600m for regneeration and levelling up schemes