All Buildings, Design and Specification articles – Page 9
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FeaturesBuilding the Future Commission: This is how we make our buildings safer
After a year of consultation and consideration, last week the Building the Future commission published its final report. In this chapter, Carl Brown considers the implications of the Building Safety Act
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FeaturesFaster, better and less disruptive: the next chapter in Mace’s manufacturing journey
The contractor wants to bring DfMA discipline to high-rise residential projects for the same cost as traditional build.
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NewsLife sciences scheme in Cambridge gets green light
Kadans job dependent on adequate water strategy
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NewsCity Hall throws lifeline to Allies & Morrison’s stalled Wimbledon expansion plans
Deputy mayor Jules Pipe calls in controversial scheme to treble the size of championship’s grounds after Wandsworth rejection
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NewsPlans for Oxford college redevelopment poised for approval
Scheme at Green Templeton College to replace several stone buildings with new student accomodation
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Why firms will feel the pressure in 2024
As we head into the new year, input costs are levelling off – in terms of materials at least – but as new orders become patchier, market competition is rising
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NewsParts of Sellar’s Paddington Cube delayed by discovery of underground structures
Developer asks council for time extension after missing deadline for completing public realm works
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NewsDesigns drawn up for new Dundee FC stadium
Stadium will replace club’s current 19th century home at Dens Park and boost capacity by more than 700 seats
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FeaturesCosting Steelwork 26: Market update
A market update from Aecom, BCSA and Steel for Life that provides guidance on costing structural steelwork
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NewsGreen light for another Oxford life sciences scheme
City’s latest laboratory building given nod by councillors despite questions over suburban setting
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NewsAnother 1970s London office to be given major overhaul
BuckleyGrayYeoman-designed scheme will be net zero in operation
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Features‘Nobody believes them any more’… HOK’s Daniel Hajjar considers what is wrong with UK politics and planning
After 20 years in the Middle East, Daniel Hajjar moved to the UK, where, eight years on, he finds the political ‘flakiness’ of the country has made it an infuriating place to build. Thomas Lowe reports
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FeaturesCost model: Delivering sustainable hotels
Hotels are competing as somewhere to stay and as places to see and be seen. Delivering sustainable, health-conscious and imaginatively designed spaces is the challenge
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NewsBSI approves new form of low carbon concrete
Limestone powder can now be added to the material in one of the biggest changes to concrete production “since the 1980s”
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NewsPlans submitted for major overhaul of Deutsche Bank’s London HQ
Proposals by Orms would see three storeys and a roof garden added to Winchester House
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NewsMSG Sphere thrown lifeline as Gove temporarily blocks Khan’s rejection
London mayor refused the “nuisance-generating” Stratford venue last month
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NewsGreen light for another King’s Cross life science scheme
New lab on Brandon Road designed by David Miller Architects for developer Kadans
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NewsDeveloper unveils plan for record-breaking 76-storey tower in Manchester
Revised 900-home second phase of city’s Viadux scheme designed by Simpson Haugh
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NewsCurrie & Brown lands work on job to build new college for St Andrews university
Wilkinson Eyre hired as lead architect on Madras New College scheme last year
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NewsGensler unveils plans for £80m public realm transformation of Fleet Street
Practice says plans aiming to attract more workers back into the office are district’s biggest overhaul in a century