All Features articles – Page 144
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FeaturesThis week in 2002
Back in 2002 one firm took an unusual approach to retaining its employees by consulting the Tao Te Ching
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FeaturesWhat to specify: BIM
A range of BIM objects have been released including an update on a sketching app that allows customers to pan and zoom simultaneously, and the completed range of Rhinoceros software
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FeaturesBIM: ‘They just don’t get it’
The latest survey from NBS shows take-up is growing but raises concerns that private clients don’t understand BIM and that the government is failing to enforce its own mandate
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FeaturesBIM: Are you ready for the fourth dimension?
The team behind 22 Bishopsgate has created a complex 4D virtual reality model intended to optimise every aspect of delivery. Is the industry at large prepared for this new reality?
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FeaturesThe great Brexit buy-up?
With sterling devalued but growth prospects strong, UK firms have rarely been more tempting to overseas buyers, as the recent takeover approach for Atkins may show. So could current market conditions signal a buying frenzy?
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FeaturesCity focus: Dubai
Ciara Walker of Arcadis highlights the programme of investment in infrastructure and tourism-related construction driven by the Dubai City Plan 2021, exemplified by World Expo 2020
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Meadowfort Grange
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Martin Douglas, associate director of Pad Design
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FeaturesImage of the week: Laying foundations
The ceremonial laying of the foundation stone of the Axel Springer building in Berlin took place on Tuesday
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FeaturesThis week in 1987
Thirty years ago, Building was looking at the potential for former psychiatric hospitals to be converted into residential
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FeaturesMelody & harmony: Berlin's new concert hall
Frank Gehry’s £28.5m Berlin concert hall is an unusual building for this celebrated creator of the unusual. Ike Ijeh finds that through its sharp contradictions of age, shape and material, it achieves a kind of peace
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Walls, ceilings, partitions
Reindeer moss makes an appearance in one building, while glass took centre stage at a rejuvenated office in Slough and cherry wood veneer panels were the attraction at the University of Birmingham
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FeaturesTracker: March 2017
The repair and maintenance activity index returns to positive territory for the first time since September but the total activity index remains unchanged
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FeaturesJust what the doctor ordered
The NHS has a maintenance backlog amounting to at least £5bn and it’s getting worse by the day as funds from the capital budget are raided to keep the health service running
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FeaturesMarket review: A bump on the road?
A monthly decrease in construction work belies longer-term growth, with the number and value of contracts substantially higher than a year ago. Michael Dall discusses the highlights of Barbour ABI’s monthly Economic Construction Market Review
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Cartwright Gardens
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Joseph Little at Maccreanor Lavington Architects
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FeaturesImage of the week: Band of brotherhood
Lifesize figures before the unveiling of a war memorial on Tuesday
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FeaturesHousing: The forgotten crisis
Already it has been dubbed the ‘Brexit election’, so will this single issue overshadow all others, including how to tackle the housing crisis?
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FeaturesFlooding resilience: watch the Big Debate
On 5 April industry experts debated the future of flood resilience in the UK – watch the debate here