All Features articles – Page 272
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Features10 ways to make your office outstanding (in BREEAM’s eyes, at least)
These days the corporate world is falling over itself to improve its environmental credentials. Thomas Lane takes a look at the newest, greenest, office building on the block and finds out how your office can be ’outstanding’ too
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FeaturesBuilding intelligence Q1 2011: Some sectors see improvement
Experian Marketing Information Services’ analysis of the first quarter of 2011 shows that despite poor performance in new orders, some sectors - such as private housing - have seen improvement
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FeaturesUK nuclear programme: Time to react
Delays to the UK’s programme could leave us with an energy generation gap in just a few years
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FeaturesThe Middle East: Back from the brink?
The Middle East crash meant job losses and unrecovered debts for many construction firms - and a scaling back of operations. Now, with infrastructure investment and a World Cup to prepare for, it might be worth taking another look. Emily Wright surveys the landscape in Qatar, Dubai and Abu Dhabi
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FeaturesAlan Cumming: Worth the energy
EDF is planning the UK’s first new nuclear plant in 30 years. But it needs contractors with the right skills. Alan Cumming, EDF’s procurement boss, tells Building why it’s worth training up - and that you don’t need a French name to win the work
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FeaturesFinancing infrastructure: the $60tn question
Sponsored content: The value of global infrastructure projects is enormous, but this market also has tough challenges. Building invited a panel of experts to debate the issues at the Infrastructure Executive Forum
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FeaturesCase studies: houses built to 2016 zero-carbon standards
The government’s recent announcement that ’zero-carbon homes’ need not include appliances will allow future green housing to ditch peculiar solar panel-toting designs to resemble, well, normal houses. Building tours some schemes that fit the bill
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FeaturesLead times April - July 2011
The earthquake in Japan has had a negative effect on electronic control equipment and the steel market is fluctuating but enquiries are up and lead times remain stable. Brian Moone of Mace reports
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FeaturesRIBA's Forgotten Spaces
RIBA announces shortlist for competition to find ways to utilise overlooked spaces in London and Sheffield
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FeaturesToulouse School of Economics: An education
How do you get lots of natural light into a university building without it getting too hot? Thomas Lane finds out how to shut out the sultry Toulouse sun using medieval building materials and fresh air
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FeaturesSpecialist costs: M&E
Legislative, economic and technological changes are presenting both challenges and opportunities to M&E firms. Erland Rendall of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company, reports
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FeaturesConsultant growth strategies: Eyes on the prize
If the top UK consultants want to stay at the top they need fast ways to grow, and that’s not easy in a stagnant market. So the hunt is on to find suitable mergers, acquisitions and overseas ventures. Building reports on the latest manoeuvres in the sector
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FeaturesChris Cole: Growth? It’s non-negotiable
In the week WSP issues a major profit warning, boss Chris Cole is still confident he can boost turnover by £300m in four years. Acquisitions across the globe and maybe even a major consolidation are on the cards
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FeaturesPost occupancy: Is your building really so green?
How do low-energy buildings perform? The best way to find out is to test them once they’ve been used. In the first of two articles, Thomas Lane reveals whether two new offices lived up to their promises
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FeaturesBrazil: Seek your fortune
Across the Atlantic lies a land of opportunity with £182bn to invest by 2013, the world’s biggest sporting events to host, and new-found oil. Luke McLeod-Roberts finds adventure - and adversity - in Brazil
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FeaturesFirst Impressions: Hadid's Twirl for Milan Show
Our student panel discuss Zaha Hadid’s contribution to Mutant Architecture for Salone del Mobile
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FeaturesSainsbury Laboratory: Nurture vs nature
Stanton Williams’ serene Sainsbury Laboratory combines classicism with modernism while remaining anchored to its natural surroundings
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FeaturesKen Shuttleworth: No more crazy shapes & silly profiles
Ken Shuttleworth, the man behind the Gherkin, doesn’t ’get’ the Shard, reckons the era of tall glass boxes is over and thinks a lot of designers are really egotistical. So why does the founder of Make think this is such a great time to be an architect? He tells Building.
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FeaturesCost model: Global manufacturing
With manufacturing in many countries showing strong signs of recovery, the development of new manufacturing facilities is required to keep pace with contemporary process and technologies, say Mike Wilcock and Miles Jenkins of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company
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FeaturesRise of the machines: BIM and QSs
With building information modelling now carrying out many traditional QS functions, are quantity surveyors and their slide rules about to meet a sticky end? Or can man and machine live (and work) happily alongside each other?