All Features articles – Page 184
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FeaturesClass of 2014: One year later
Building catches up with the class of 2014 to find out if, having made it through their first year, life in construction is all they’d hoped it would be
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FeaturesWilmcote House: Thermal vision
The flaws of Portsmouth’s Wilmcote House may have been indicative of 1960s social housing, but now its mass adoption of Passivhaus principles could see it used as a model for sustainable retrofit
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FeaturesCPD 15 2015: Innovative BIM in small and medium practices
This module, sponsored by Vectorworks, examines the benefits of collaborative BIM technology for smaller architects, and explores how the process worked on two recent projects
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FeaturesProcurement update: BIM
As the 2016 deadline for the UK government’s mandate gets closer, the take-up of BIM on projects and programmes is accelerating
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FeaturesImage of the week: Goodbye, Victoria
Crossrail’s final tunnelling machine is dismantled, following the completion of tunnelling on the project
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Loggos
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is of a waterfront building on Loggos, a harbourside village on the island of Paxos, Greece
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FeaturesThe Green Deal: 'A catastrophe from start to finish'
It’s been called the greatest flop of the last parliament. But why did the Green Deal, the government’s flagship retrofit scheme, fail so spectacularly?
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FeaturesImage of the week: Cross the Mersey
Construction begins on three giant pylons that will support the Mersey Gateway Bridge
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FeaturesHeathrow: Growing Pains
As Heathrow’s controversial third runway tries to chart a route through the political turbulence ahead, does it have anything to learn from its expanded international rivals?
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FeaturesApprenticeships levy: Taxing Times
The government’s pledge to deliver 3 million apprenticeships through a levy on large employers has left many in the industry confused as to how the policy will work
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FeaturesCost model: Higher education refurb
When UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture outgrew its building a decision was needed on whether to demolish and rebuild, or radically refurbish it. The latter course was chosen
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FeaturesInterview: Brandon Lewis
Building talks to housing minister Brandon Lewis about the Conservative government’s radical policy agenda
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FeaturesFrom the archives in 1995
In 1995 getting a break from the office seemed more trouble than it was worth
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FeaturesImage of the week: Heights at the museum
Zak Ové’s seven-metre high sculptures are installed in the British Museum’s Great Court
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FeaturesTracker: June 2015
Orders continue to rise sharply across each sector, making the overall construction activity index’s drop into negative territory for the first time in almost three years a nasty surprise. Experian Economics reports
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FeaturesYork Art Gallery: Show time
Architects working on the £8m refurbishment of York Art Gallery have peeled away decades of callously inappropriate interventions to unlock a wonderland of architectural secrets
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FeaturesMarket review: Begin again
The Budget has given us a taste of this Conservative government’s economic policy and forecasts for the sector are also looking strong
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FeaturesSME catch-up: Whatever happened to …
Five years ago Building profiled 10 small, young firms whose fresh thinking and bright ideas stood in stark contrast to the gloomy economic environment at the time. Now, we revisit them to see how these cutting edge companies have fared while the industry has started to recover. So who has ...