All Features articles – Page 140
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FeaturesThis week in 2012
Five years ago the government held a Construction Summit to reassure the industry
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FeaturesCPD 10 2017: Glass rainscreen cladding systems
Glass rainscreen cladding is an established and proven type of facade. This CPD, sponsored by Sto, explores how the robust and secure system offers design flexibility, thermal efficient insulation and a facade that is weather resistant
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FeaturesIn Grenfell’s shadow
After the immediate shock of the Grenfell Tower fire, local authorities and housing associations are trying to work out what it all means for the social housing sector. Joey Gardiner reports
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FeaturesInfrastructure update: Smart vehicles
Connected and autonomous vehicles are expected to lead the next urban transport revolution - transforming urban mobility and the way roads are managed
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FeaturesV&A extension: Culture shock
Amanda Levete’s £48m expansion of London’s V A connects the museum with the public realm through a superb porcelain-paved courtyard. But it’s the sheer immersive power of its vast subterranean exhibition hall that will make visitors stand and gawp
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FeaturesSketch of the week: One Blackfriars
This #buildingdoodle sketch is being exhibited in the Architecture Room at the Royal Academy Summer Show
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FeaturesImage of the week: Vic and Al’s yard
London’s V A Museum opened its Exhibition Road Quarter this week
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FeaturesThis week in 1987
Three decades ago Center Parcs promised a new experience “tested fastidiously” in Belgium and Holland
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FeaturesTracker: May 2017
Total activity growth remains steady but R M continues to slide, while materials costs have risen notably and there has been a positive level of activity in nearly all regions. Experian Economics reports
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FeaturesBuilding intelligence: Q1 2017
As uncertainty continues to stalk the economy, modest private housing sector growth is expected, with public housing having grown strongly
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FeaturesKeep on running…
An ageing workforce, many members of whom are considering retiring, is one of the major issues contributing to the construction industry’s current skills crisis
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FeaturesGrenfell Tower: Heated debate
The Grenfell Tower fire has led to calls for fire safety regulations to be examined. But this was not the first warning sign that the current rules are not fit for purpose. What can be done to make sure a tragedy on this scale doesn’t happen again?
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FeaturesOnline poll: EU workers’ status
Should the government be doing more to ensure clarity on the status of transient EU workers post-Brexit?
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FeaturesNational Gallery of Ireland: Windows of opportunity
Heneghan Peng’s £25m refurbishment of the National Gallery of Ireland is a sensitive and sometimes almost invisible intervention into an idiosyncratic building
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FeaturesMarket review: Crawling along
Macroeconomic signals have been mixed over the past month and the economy had the slowest rate of growth of any G7 economy in Q1
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FeaturesHow six women saved the 'heart' of a £120m project
On International Women in Engineering Day, a female project team from LSE’s Centre Buildings Redevelopment tell their story
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Leicester Square ticket office
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Tim Murray, director of Moxon Architects
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FeaturesImage of the week: Hope and mourning
Floral tributes and missing person posters are left after the Grenfell Tower fire
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FeaturesThis week in 1962
Some 55 years ago, Building’s leader was on a subject that has had tragic cause to be on the receiving end of much scrutiny this week – fire regulations
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FeaturesBrexit and construction law: Changing times
One year on from the EU referendum, nobody knows how a post-Brexit world will look