All Features articles – Page 109
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FeaturesUK Construction Week gives building professionals control
UK Construction Week (UKCW) returns to the NEC between 9-11 October with a jam-packed three-day event where you can walk away feeling positive and ready for the future.
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Midland Metropolitan hospital
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by architect Pablo Fernandez Villoch at Edward Williams Architects.
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FeaturesImage of the week: Design module
As part of the London Design Festival – which starts on Saturday – Waugh Thistleton Architects, supported by Arup, has created an installation at Kensington’s V A museum
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FeaturesBrexit: Is anyone listening?
The construction industry feels sidelined by the government in its vision for Brexit, complaining that ministers just aren’t listening. But is the sector itself partly to blame for failing to present a clear and unified voice?
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 1852
Back in the 1850s, readers were just as excited about developments in the railways as they are today – but for the right reasons
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FeaturesOnline poll: Is the Crossrail delay a poor reflection on construction?
This week’s poll: Does the delay to Crossrail reflect badly on the construction industry?
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FeaturesCrossrail: The long wait
As Crossrail’s opening date is pushed further and further into the future and costs spiral over budget, Joey Gardiner asks why the biggest construction project in Europe has swerved so far off track and how this could impact the rest of the industry
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FeaturesCost update Q2 2018
Material and labour prices are continuing to rise, but global economic uncertainty may affect the numbers in future
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FeaturesBuilding Awards 2018: Building magazine's Project of the Year shortlist part 2
With this year’s Building Awards shortlist announced, we take a look at the nominees for Building magazine’s Project of the Year
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FeaturesBuilding Awards 2018: Building magazine's Project of the Year shortlist part 1
With this year’s Building Awards shortlist announced, we take a look at the nominees for Building magazine’s Project of the Year
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FeaturesOnline poll: Is offsite the answer for the education sector?
This week’s poll: Is offsite the answer to upgrading the country’s crumbling school estate?
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FeaturesRoundtable: digitally inclined
Technology has yet to fully filter through to many parts of the construction process. Debika Ray reports on a roundtable by Bluebeam discussing how to motivate companies to digitalise
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FeaturesImage of the week: A safe bet
The historic art deco Littlewoods building in Liverpool suffered a huge fire
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FeaturesSchools: Learning to love modular
Offsite construction can offer an answer to England’s struggling school estate. But manufacturers are battling to banish dated perceptions of what modular means. Jordan Marshall reports
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FeaturesSchool daze: What’s happening to the government’s building plan?
Although the government has committed to spending £23bn on school building programmes up to 2021, many contractors and consultants are convinced the pipeline of work has slowed. Joey Gardiner asks how significant a recent fall in capital spending could be for construction
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Crossrail station, Paddington
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by senior architect Pablo Sanz Claramunt at Weston Williamson + Partners
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FeaturesTracker: July 2018
Activity, employment prospects and demand are all showing slower growth, with the cost of labour, materials shortages and financial constraints on the rise.
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2012
Spending on schools, or lack of it, is once again making the headlines in Building
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FeaturesBuilding utopia? How Dudley College was built using a new form of procurement
When Dudley College wanted to build a £10m Centre for Advanced Building Technologies, it plumped for a new form of procurement – an insurance model that benefits the whole supply chain and covers cost overruns
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FeaturesTune in to the trends at this year’s UK Construction Week
Source: UKCW Trends come and go but buildings stay put. That’s why construction professionals must stay ahead of the trends and build for the future – an easy task at this year’s UK Construction Week (UKCW) at Birmingham’s NEC between 9 – 11 October. ...