Buildings, design and specification – Page 3
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A piece of genius: world's first cast-iron building is fit for the future
When Historic England took on restoration of an 18th-century flax mill, the plan was to preserve a piece of history and give a unique industrial building a new sense of purpose
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Market forecast: Weathering the storm
The UK is now clearly heading into recession but strong momentum in construction output should help to insulate our sector, despite only slightly slowing cost pressures
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Nine Elms: How the Chinese redefined development in London
The past decade has seen the riverside area around Vauxhall transformed with Chinese developers cutting their teeth on three major schemes. Thomas Lane visited the project
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Top 150 Contractors and Housebuilders 2022: Signs of hope in the economic phoney war
Contractors are wary but the need for more recruits and a better-than-expected autumn statement mean it’s not all doom and gloom for the year ahead, writes Dave Rogers
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To refurb or rebuild? Join the great M&S Oxford Street store debate
Henrietta Billings and Fred Pilbrow put the case for and against plans to build a new flagship store for Marks & Spencer on Oxford Street
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Bankside Yards: A new net zero model for London?
Native Land’s scheme will be the UK’s first major mixed-use net zero development thanks to an ambient heat network. Thomas Lane reports
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Factory International: Manchester’s new joy division
Manchester’s Factory International mega‑venue aims to encourage artists to push the boundaries – as the designers themselves have done
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CPD 13 2022: Designing acoustics for learning environments
This CPD sponsored by ROCKWOOL examines the issues around acoustic performance in schools, sets out the relevant regulations and standards, and explains some of the solutions available. Deadline for completion Friday 30 December 2022.
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Designing for the desert: how British architects approached the 2022 World Cup
For Qatar 2022, Zaha Hadid Architects, Foster + Partners and BDP Pattern had to create open-air arenas where players and spectators are protected from temperatures of 40ºC
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Market forecast: Upward but uneven
As building costs soar, yearly tender price increases are close to double figures – but that should slow next year. And while construction output is still rising overall, there is greater fragmentation
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Cost model: Build-to-rent
Build-to-rent offers a solution to low housing supply and stable returns for investors and developers – if they can meet the demands of a quickly evolving tenant base
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Cost model: Building brownfield
Regenerating previously used land offers multiple environmental, social and cost advantages but there are many factors to consider
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Cost model: Labs in the sky
Record levels of investment into the life science sector and an increasingly limited supply of space have encouraged laboratory buildings to enter the high-rise realm
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22 Bishopsgate: Looking down on the neighbours
Its grand height and formal aloofness may give it an air of superiority but the ‘vertical village’ goes out of its way to make people feel at home. Thomas Lane reports
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Procurement update: applying the enterprise model to infrastructure
To deliver the UK’s ambitious and complex infrastructure investment programme, the way forward lies in integrated teams and enterprise-based delivery
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Soaring energy prices? That’s not a problem in my ecohouse
Forget everything you thought you knew about building design if you want to achieve net zero. I built a house that heats and cools itself naturally
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Things can only get hotter – so we must tackle overheating in buildings
With climate change making heatwaves more frequent, intense and long-lasting, what can be done to mitigate overheating in buildings?
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Battersea power station: conquering the Everest of real estate
It has been compared to climbing the world’s highest mountain but the redeveloped Battersea power station is now, finally, complete
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Cost model: School buildings
Amid rising prices, schools developers must strike a balance between meeting cost expectations and providing fit-for-purpose, sustainable buildings for the next generation of learners
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Looking up … new visitor centre at Jodrell Bank is out of this world
While the famous radio telescope searches out the mysteries of the universe, the £20.5m new visitor centre presented challenges of a far more terrestrial kind