All Features articles – Page 100
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FeaturesKnown unknowns: what do we know, and what might surprise construction in 2019?
We asked a selection of 2018’s Building Awards winners to say what they’re sure will happen in 2019, what they’re waiting to hear about, and what might surprise us all
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Features2019: The completing projects to look out for this year
Ike Ijeh takes a look at 2019’s completing projects, including a brace of international museums and a couple of London tall buildings
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FeaturesBuilding podcast: Highlights from Building Live 2018
Listen to this Building podcast - highlights from Building Live 2018, including debates on the Hackitt review and the future of large contractors
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FeaturesBuilding podcast: What do Millennials want?
The skills crisis continues to grip construction - listen to highlights from Building Live and find out what makes the next generation tick
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FeaturesTest yourself: Building Quiz 2018
Here are some of the questions from the Building Quiz - test your colleagues or just yourself to discover your quizzing prowess
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FeaturesA very Merry Quizmas - highlights from this year’s Building Quiz
Building’s inaugural Christmas quiz was a riot of bantz, brilliance, beer, and Beyoncé (though sadly not in person)
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Features2018 in construction: Building's review of the year - part two
So, what did Santa’s last round of offerings bring the industry? It’s not been a stocking full of pleasant surprises
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FeaturesOnline poll: All I want for Christmas...
This week’s poll: What do you most want for Christmas?
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FeaturesImage of the week: Mmm… modular
The Museum of Architecture’s Gingerbread City exhibition at the V A opened on Saturday with a splendid example by EPR of just what modular housing can achieve if you’re prepared to be creative with materials. We wonder if the insurance would cover consumption by small children abandoned in a wood, ...
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 1999 - Bugged
While we modern folk fret about Brexit, in 1999 they had their own problems: the dreaded “Millennium Bug”
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Regeneration in Ilford
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Harry Thomson at Studioshaw
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Features2018 in construction: Building's review of the year - part one
So, what did Santa’s last round of offerings bring the industry? It’s not been a stocking full of pleasant surprises
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FeaturesBuilding's Projects of the Year 2018 - part 2
Ike Ijeh rounds up the year’s architectural excitements
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FeaturesBuilding's Projects of the Year 2018 - part 1
An embassy, a giant greenhouse, a metropolitan retail redevelopment, a Scottish museum and a totemic tower. Ike Ijeh rounds up the year’s architectural excitements.
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FeaturesCost update Q3 2018
A quarterly analysis of changes to the main construction cost indices, material prices and labour costs shows continuing upward movement
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FeaturesImage of the week: Mellow yellow
Willmott Dixon staff show off the high-tech exoskeleton vests they are trialling with robotics firm Eksobionics on a school scheme in Cardiff. We trust the rioting ‘gilets jaunes’ in Paris don’t trade up to the tech-enabled versions …
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FeaturesInterview: Dar's Andrew Loudon talks to Building
Dar may still be an unfamiliar name to many, but the Beirut-based owner of Currie Brown, Elementa and Perkins+Will has ambitions to grow its operations rapidly in the UK, Brexit notwithstanding
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FeaturesSketch of the week: 2018 Engineering Sketches Prize
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Gustaf Granstrom, a senior structural engineer at Heyne Tillett Steel in London
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2008 – A zoo solution
It’s not often that our Building archivists are taken aback by something they find buried in the magazine’s dusty library
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FeaturesHackitt review and regaining trust: ‘The industry has created a monster’
With the government’s formal response to the Hackitt review of building regulations and fire safety expected soon, a panel of industry experts at Building Live discussed their own responses – and how trust in the sector can be won back