All Features articles – Page 112
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FeaturesOnline poll: Can the sector deal deliver?
This week’s poll: Will the new sector deal deliver what the industry needs?
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FeaturesConstruction Sector Deal: big on aspiration, but can it deliver?
The government has published its long-promised construction sector deal – a document that the industry is hailing with cautious optimism, albeit with worries that it’s light on details. What might stand in the way of this strategy for change having a real impact on the industry?
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FeaturesNPPF: Industry reaction
Now the final National Planning Policy Framework has been unveiled, how do construction professionals rate it?
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FeaturesImage of the week: Too darn hot
Parched yellow grass covers Greenwich Park in south-east London as the heatwave continues
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FeaturesSketch of the week: adapted Victorian post office, Bury St Edmunds
This #buildingdoodle sketch is by Tanvir Hasan, deputy chair of Donald Insall Associates.
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2005
Low margins, as highlighted in our Top 150 Contractors table this week, are nothing new. Back in 2005 we reported on how difficult things were in the sector.
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FeaturesTop 150 contractors and housebuilders: Split fortunes
Building’s exclusive full Top 150 league has been released
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FeaturesNuclear energy: Gone with the wind
The National Infrastructure Commission’s landmark report this month seemed to sound the death knell for nuclear energy new-build, calling for a large-scale shift to renewables by 2050 – and for only one more nuclear power station approval by 2025. But are we really likely to get 90% of Britain’s electricity ...
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FeaturesTop 150 contractors and housebuilders: Part 2
Building’s exclusive full Top 150 league is out tomorrow, but here selected results on the top 20 housebuilders have been released early
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FeaturesFire safety at 22 Bishopsgate: A race to the bottom
At 22 Bishopsgate, Lipton Rogers has developed the UK’s first lift evacuation strategy
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FeaturesTop 150 contractors and housebuilders: Part 1
Building’s full Top 150 league is out on Friday, but here selected results have been released early
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FeaturesConstruction methods: modular
Modular construction is touted as the future of the building industry, but while the sector is rapidly growing in some areas, there are still obstacles to overcome. Alex Hyams of Alinea with Ed McCann of Expedition Engineering and Hugh Ferguson assess the pros and cons of volumetric modular offsite construction ...
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FeaturesCosting steelwork: Cost models update
Costing Steelwork is a series from Aecom, BCSA and Steel for Life that provides guidance on costing structural steelwork. This quarter provides a market update, focuses on long-span and column-free design and updates the five cost models previously featured in Costing Steelwork
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FeaturesOnline poll: Net migration
This week’s poll: Should net migration, which is at its highest rate since 2011, be cut to the government’s target of tens of thousands?
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FeaturesAsian innovation
From on-site robots to bamboo construction, communal living and smart cities, here are some of the region’s most technologically impressive construction experiments
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FeaturesHive mind: Inside LG’s new campus
Spread over a million square metres in Seoul, the HOK-designed complex of laboratories, offices, atriums, parks and social spaces will host 25,000 researchers and engineers
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FeaturesImage of the week: On top of the world
The World Cup winning team parades down the Champs-Élysées in Paris in front of hundreds of thousands of adoring fans
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Residential care community, Oxfordshire
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by illustrator Tony Simmonds for Colwyn Foulkes Partners
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2012
We look back at how Singapore does gardening. As you would expect from the city-state, it’s not on a small scale