All Features articles – Page 190
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Walls, ceilings & partitions
This week’s walls, ceilings and partitions products include curtain walling for an Eiffel-tower inspired building in Singapore and external wall insulation for a residential estate in Clackmannan
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FeaturesInterview: Robin Butler
Developer Urban Civic plans to build 40,000 homes on difficult, large sites - and after a key acquisition, looks well on the path to achieving that. We meet MD Robin Butler as he scours the land for housebuilders
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FeaturesImage of the week: On the road again
We just had to squeeze in another prime-minister-in-a-hard-hat-on-site photo, this time at the Bexhill to Hastings link road in East Sussex taken during election week
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FeaturesLead times: January - March 2015
Lead times continue to increase with eight trades on the rise and no reported decreases. Some packages have increased more than once in the last 12 months
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FeaturesParliamentary renovations: Houses of cards
The Houses of Parliament are in desperate need of repair. With just 20 years of life left within their crumbling walls, proposals for renovation are being drawn up
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FeaturesImage of the week: Selfie on site
In the last in our series of prime-minister-in-a-hard-hat-on-site photos before the election David Cameron poses with workers at an M S site in Longbridge, West Midlands
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FeaturesSketch of the week: High level park, Peckham
This week’s sketch is part of a proposal for a high level park in Peckham, south London
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FeaturesFloating voters: Which way are you leaning?
This week we catch up with our panel of floating voters, first selected during the 2010 election, to ask what they think the different parties offer the industry and who they are intending to vote for this time around
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FeaturesEric Pickles' letter to the construction industry
Conservative party’s secretary of state responds to Building’s manifesto aims
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FeaturesThis week in 1997
Labour predicts that plans for Regional Development Agencies will spread quickly across the North if elected, ahead of the 1997 election
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FeaturesElection special: The parties compared
With less than a week to go until the election, and all parties having finally published their manifestos, how do the parties line up on the key issues for construction?
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FeaturesNigel Farage’s letter to the construction industry
Leader of UKIP responds to Building’s manifesto aims
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FeaturesInside Westminster: Housing by numbers
In this election’s battle of the building stats, a major focus has been that worryingly few houses have been built in the last five years. But is this the coalition’s fault? Could other parties do better?
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FeaturesBuilding Award Winners: Specialist Contractor of the Year
All of the nominees for this year’s specialist contractor category have experienced impressive growth in recent years, with the winner showing true innovation in its work
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FeaturesBuilding Award Winners: Building Magazine Project of the Year
This category included a number of high-profile schemes but was ultimately won by a refurb project that has transformed a dated office building into a landmark ‘business hotel’
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FeaturesBuilding Award Winners: International Project of the Year
These projects from around the world demonstrate exceptional design, innovative sustainability measures and aim to inspire the cities they inhabit - as this year’s winner did in Canberra, Australia
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FeaturesBuilding Award Winners: CITB Training Initiative of the Year
This year’s shortlisted training initiatives take focus on safety, customer satisfaction and leadership aspects of development, with the results of one scheme proving particularly impressive
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FeaturesBuilding Award Winners: Sustainable Project of the Year
A broad portfolio of major projects, bumper financial results and a commitment to staff training and development have given Core Five the entrepreneurial clout to take the top prize
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FeaturesBuilding Award Winners: BIM Initiative of the Year
This category acknowledges those companies that have gone the extra mile to integrate BIM into the everyday fabric of their business, with the winner ensuring that all staff get hands on with the technology
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FeaturesBuilding Award Winners: Construction Client of the Year
Argent has become synonymous with high-profile city centre regeneration projects, such as London’s King’s Cross, which it pulls off with style - so not surprisingly the best in the industry are lining up to work with this client