All Features articles – Page 116
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Projects: A history lesson at Westminster Abbey
How do you design an extension that can live up to the heritage of the coronation place of kings and queens for the last thousand years?
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Cost model: Transport-led development
Building on top of and around transport hubs such as rail and bus stations can create much needed new homes in ideally connected locations, but the viability of such transport-oriented developments depends on complex factors
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Online poll: Russian revolution
This week’s poll: Has Russia done itself proud with its World Cup football stadiums?
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Social value: how to be good
When it comes to doing the right thing we all need a little nudge now and then. Five years on, we look at the impact the Social Value Act has had
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Image of the week: Cross purposes
Last weekend the spans were lifted into position for a new 135m-wide public footbridge connecting business campus Chiswick Park to the eponymous tube station in west London
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Sketch of the week: Bartlett Park, Poplar, east London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Archie Bashford, a landscape architect at Levitt Bernstein
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From the archive: 1886
As we look at the Social Value Act and consider whether it will encourage firms to be more sustainable and ethical, we look back to a time where the deserving poor had to rely on the generosity of rich philanthropists
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Hackitt: What it could mean for you
Dame Judith Hackitt’s report is likely to have far-reaching impacts on the roles of those who commission, design and build residential schemes over 10 storeys
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Sketch of the week: Leicester City FC training ground
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Lee Nightingale, director at KSS Design Group
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Online poll: Shockwaves
This week’s poll: If another economic downturn hit now, would the industry be better placed to withstand it than it was a decade back?
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Ten years on: Could it happen again?
Ten years on from the crash of 2008, how has the industry changed – and if another downturn strikes, will we be better placed to respond effectively?
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A safer future
As the Hackitt report publishes its findings on building regulations and fire safety, a panel put together by the Business Sprinkler Alliance discusses what needs to change to prevent another Grenfell disaster
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Image of the week: Throwaway art
The Stephen Lawrence Centre in Deptford, originally opened in 2008 in memory of the teenager killed in 1993, has reopened after a refurbishment by BW
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From the archive: 2008
This week we decided to see if our review of the year 2008 could really be doom and gloom from beginning to end. It was
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CPD 11 2018: Virtual desktop infrastructure
Virtual workspaces simplify the process of adopting BIM Level 2. This CPD, sponsored by Creative ITC, looks at the advantages of visual desktop infrastructure
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Tracker: April 2018
Activity increased across all sectors compared with March, and most of all in civil engineering. Tender prices are also still on the rise, but new orders are growing more slowly
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Analysis: Public land - keep out
As the likely scrapping of Haringey’s 6,500-home joint venture with Lendlease dramatically signals public-private partnerships’ fall from grace, Joey Gardiner looks at why the scheme caused so much controversy and other ways for councils to fund housing renewa
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Technical Study: What lies beneath
Construction of Nottingham Trent University’s new Confetti Digital Media Hub revealed medieval caves beneath the ground
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Sketch of the week: The Principal, Manchester
This week’s multimedia #buildingdoodle sketch is by associate director Martin Douglas at Pad Design