All Features articles – Page 105
-
FeaturesJob swap - could you make the change? part two
Jamie Harris speaks to more professionals across the sector who have changed disciplines
-
FeaturesTracker: September 2018
Civil engineering activity finally returned to growth in September, after four months of contraction, while the other sectors stayed steady
-
FeaturesCPD 22 2018: Working climates in rail maintenance facilities
This CPD, sponsored by Nortek, will examine how such spaces, often hundreds of metres long and featuring large openings to allow trains to enter, can be maintained at temperatures conducive to those who work in them.
-
FeaturesProjects: Heatherwick’s Coal Drops Yard
Heatherwick Studio’s Coal Drops Yard retail hub in north London revels in the idiosyncrasies of its original Victorian warehouse architecture and uses them in a brazenly theatrical way to upstage all else on Argent’s King’s Cross Central masterplan.
-
FeaturesThe Power of the Construction Industry - Grenfell Community Centre
Monodraught are honoured to have been able to support a second DIY SOS project . This time for the recent Grenfell special which involved building a new Boxing club and Community Centre for residents affected by the tragic fire of June 2017. “This ...
-
FeaturesSketch of the week: The Samsara of Building No.42 on Dirty Street
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Li Han, one of the founding partners of Drawing Architecture Studio in Beijing
-
FeaturesBuilding Awards 2018: Housing Project of the Year nominees
Among the nominees for the Building Award in this category are three impressive schemes for older people and a live-work-eat scheme aimed at trendy, young buyers
-
FeaturesFrom the archive: 2015 - Help to Buy
The government’s Help to Buy programme, now believed to be under threat, got a warm welcome from the construction industry when it was introduced five years ago
-
FeaturesOnline poll: Help to Buy
This week’s poll: Are you worried that chancellor Philip Hammond will cancel the Help to Buy scheme in next week’s budget?
-
FeaturesJob swap: could you make the change?
Jamie Harris speaks to professionals across the sector who have changed disciplines
-
FeaturesIs this the end of the road for Help to Buy?
Next week’s Budget is likely to determine the fate of the government’s controversial Help to Buy scheme. Is it likely to be scrapped, hitting share prices hard?
-
FeaturesImage of the week: A bridge too far
The world’s longest sea-crossing bridge opened this week, between Hong Kong, Macau and Zhuhai in China.
-
FeaturesBIM survey 2018: The rise and rise of BIM
The number of firms using the technology and appreciating the value it brings to their work grows - but how to win over those who are not yet convinced?
-
FeaturesThe future of offices
Values in the workplace are changing, which in turn means that what occupiers want from an office building is also evolving rapidly
-
FeaturesCosting steelwork October 2018: Market update
This quarter provides a market update as well as updating the five cost models previously featured and giving details of general cost drivers for framing materials
-
FeaturesRenzo Piano: The Art of Making Buildings
Renzo Piano: see the function, invention and vision behind some of the greatest buildings of our time in the Royal Academy of Arts’ new exhibition
-
FeaturesCPD 21 2018: Introduction to acoustics
This CPD, sponsored by Isover, will look at the fundamentals of acoustics and how we understand sound, how it is measured and how sound is dealt with in order to comply with relevant aspects of Building Regulations
-
FeaturesSketch of the week: The Power House in Woking
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch, by Maurizio Pieroni, is of a 247-apartment scheme above a low-carbon power station
-
FeaturesPaul Hackett: Leading the charge for housing change
As chair of London housing association group G15, Paul Hackett has plenty he wants to change about housebuilding in the social sector.
-
FeaturesImage of the week: Bordering on lunacy
Could this abandoned customs building at Carrickarnon on the old border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland be back in use again, come Brexit?