All Features articles – Page 216
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FeaturesThe next five years
Following a surprise result which leaves the Tories free to rule without coalition partners, what can construction expect from the next parliament?
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FeaturesInteriors products: What’s new?
Here’s a preview of some of the new products on display at the May Design Series, from bathroom brassware to infrared-controlled radiators
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FeaturesCan better design help to solve the housing crisis?
Andy Pearson looks at four housing design proposals that could transform the way we live
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FeaturesGlobal city focus: New York
New York is a city at the crossroads of global influence. How can it translate its economic and political strength into investment in infrastructure and affordable housing for its population?
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FeaturesHow interior design is changing
As part of our May Design Series preview, Sebastian Conran and Daniel Hopwood offer their perspectives on how interior design is changing
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FeaturesMay Design Series preview: Three days in May
The May Design Series focuses on the key trends and issues affecting interior design - and explores them in a compelling conference and seminar programme
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FeaturesThis week in 1992
A few weeks ahead of the 1992 general election, Building took a look backwards
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FeaturesSketch of the week: University of Delft
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Luciano Vitiello of bptw partnership
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FeaturesElection special: Now listen here...
Company chiefs and heads of industry bodies from across the sector set out their messages to the prime minister
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FeaturesElection 2015: What happens in a hung parliament?
With all predictions pointing to a hung parliament, what could happen after the election?
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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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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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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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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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FeaturesFloating voters: The next government’s priorities need to be …
This week two members of our panel of floating voters highlight vital areas of construction policy that will require the attention of the next government, whatever its political make-up
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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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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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FeaturesEric Pickles' letter to the construction industry
Conservative party’s secretary of state responds to Building’s manifesto aims
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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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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