All Features articles – Page 266
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FeaturesFirst Impressions: Liverpool National Museum
Our student panel give their impression on the futuristic waterfront museum by Danish architect 3XD
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FeaturesWinning work in the healthcare sector
The healthcare industry is changing. The new Health and Social Care Bill is decentralising power, and construction firms are going to have to take the initiative if they want to win work. Emily Wright looks at the data compiled in Building’s first Health White Paper
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FeaturesHold very tight, please: Mike Carroll interview
How do you put a consultancy firm in prime position for growth in the next few years? Mike Carroll, chief executive of Arcadis, tells Emily Wright why flexibility and change are essential to future success
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FeaturesSustainability: Building structures
In-use energy consumption is well regulated, so should we now consider embodied carbon? Isabel McAllister and Anthony Mitchell of Cyril Sweett, Steve Webb and Anna Beckett of Webb Yates report
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FeaturesTop 200 Consultants 2011: Are you positive?
This year’s Top 200 consultants survey shows that staff numbers and salaries are finally climbing. But it also warns not to let the optimism go to your head
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FeaturesGartnavel Maggie's Centre: Moment of calm
Rem Koolhaas shows unusual restraint and impeccable bedside manners at Glasgow’s second Maggie’s Centre, where a subdued and informal space uses the natural world around it to promote healing
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FeaturesFirst Impressions: Zaha’s Riverside Transport Museum
Two Nottingham Trent University students give their verdicts on the dramatic building in Glasgow
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FeaturesM&E special report: LED lighting at the National Gallery
Displaying some of the most famous - and delicate - paintings in the world is a tricky business, particularly when you have to decide between quality of light and energy conservation. The National Gallery thinks it has found the answer: LEDs. Andy Pearson reports
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FeaturesESCOs: Off the grid
As the pressure to achieve low-carbon developments intensifies, decentralised, privately-funded energy solutions are in increasingly high demand. Andy Pearson examines the rapidly expanding market for Energy Services Companies, or ESCos
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FeaturesEducation White Paper
Following the government’s response to the James Review, Building is offering a comprehensive 60 page guide to the education market in the UK over the next four years.
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FeaturesDeptford: Mixed to the max
On a single 7,000m2 site in Deptford, architect Pollard Thomas Edwards has managed to fit a community centre, artists’ studios, flats, a school and two playgrounds. Building finds out how
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FeaturesCountry focus: Russia
As host to the 2014 Winter Olympics and 2018 World Cup, and with a strong demand for offices, residential and retail, Russia is experiencing an uplift in construction activity. Tim Robb from EC Harris reports
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FeaturesCEO White Paper
This report, specially tailored for decision makers, provides expert intelligence and insight into the state of the nation for the construction industry.
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FeaturesBeing Benny Kelly
To pay tribute to one of construction’s biggest names we re-publish a rare interview given by the ex-Sir Robert McAlpine London boss in 2011
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FeaturesThe ArcelorMittal Orbit: Twist and shout
The ArcelorMittal Orbit in the Olympic park is being built to ‘arouse the curiosity and wonder of Londoners’. And the most curious thing of all is how this spiralling confusion of red steel actually stands up
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FeaturesM&E special report: Android smart home
What would it mean to be able to control every electrical device in your home from your phone? Wireless home automation is nothing new, but Google hopes to bring it to the masses with its latest project. Andy Pearson glimpses the future
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FeaturesMy working day: EC Harris QS Rachel Titley
The chartered QS at EC Harris in Birmingham keeps her team of trainees and associates busy whilst juggling her family and working life
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FeaturesCost model: Residential
Office-to-residential conversions may become increasingly popular, so what does it cost to turn a commercial space into a home? Ben de Waal and Chris Amesbury of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company, look at the conditions needed for success and the key financial considerations
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FeaturesOffice to residential conversions: New direction
As the value of prime residential soars and the office sector wobbles, commercial developers are hoping to cash in by converting offices to homes. Building looks at the strategies of some of the key players
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FeaturesThe state we’re in: CEO White Paper preview
With the party conference upon us, how do industry leaders really feel about the government’s economic policies? Sarah Richardson and Will Hurst unravel the data compiled in Building’s first CEO State of the Nation White Paper