All Features articles – Page 47
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Market overview: Later living
In Building Boardroom’s latest market overview, Josephine Smit looks at the later living sector, which in the UK is starting from a small base but has enormous growth potential, especially with a recent rush of investor interest
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‘They’re now taking succession very seriously.’ Laing O’Rourke fires starting gun in race to replace Ray
It’s a question that’s been asked for years and the firm’s founder seems to have come up with an answer
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5 minutes with … Nick Fairham at BDP
BDP’s new chief executive is optimistic about the future and how the next generation can shape the industry. He has collected too much mid-century furniture and is apparently a pretty good hairdresser
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Interview: Emma-Jane Houghton, commercial director, New Hospitals Programme
An innovative delivery strategy is being used to deliver the goverments ambition to build 40 new hospitals by 2030. What is it and how does the industry get involved?
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Forming an industry-wide approach to social value
Social value is increasingly prized, but how it is defined and measured varies widely – as does the appreciation of its importance
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A lab of two halves … Warwick’s bold bid to keep those nasty bugs at bay
Designed by Hawkins\Brown, Warwick university’s new £54.3m interdisciplinary biomedical research facility features contrasting facades of dark bronze and white concrete that reflect the two different aspects of what is happening inside
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5 minutes with … Siobhan O’Brien of HB Reavis
The senior design manager talks about architectural stunners, a love of brunch and her secret car-racing skills
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Wolfson College, Oxford: first-class graduates in energy efficiency
Wolfson College in Oxford has set out to cut 75% of emissions on its main estate by March next year and plans to be net zero by 2030
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Can anyone save the RIBA?
With a new president takes over next month, many are asking what is next for the organisation
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Client contract award and planning data - July 2021
Glenigan’s sector by sector monthly round up of top spending clients and planning wins
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Annual planning approvals by value to July 2021
Annual planning approvals were worth £109bn in the year to July according to Glenigan’s sector by sector league table
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Planning approvals by value - July 2021
July saw a jump in the value of planning approvals from June’s £6.95bn to £8.69bn according to Glenigan’s sector by sector league table
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Top client contract awards - July 2021
Contract awards increased from June’s £5.53bn to £6.12bn in July according to Glenigan’s sector by sector league table of top spending clients
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Nicholas Boys Smith: ‘A bit of controversy forces you to have the conversation’
Nicholas Boys Smith talks to Joey Gardiner about the government’s intentions and how they square with his beauty agenda
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Vandersanden bricks top the class at City, University of London's law school
Wilkinson Eyre has chosen to use the firm's Anicius facing bricks
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It’s takeover time in the UK consultancy market
The appetite of US giants for venerable UK brands shows no sign of abating. So who is next?
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A good match? How T&T and CBRE compare
Following the announcement that T&T is selling a 60% stake to US giant CBRE, we measure up the two firms to see how good a fit they are
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5 minutes with … Nick Hartwright at Projekt
Nick Hartwright, CEO of workspace provider Projekt, appreciates the importance of being resilient and working your way up from the bottom. He drives a VW T25 and is pretty good at Lego
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Meet the person charged with delivering 40 hospitals in nine years
Emma-Jane Houghton wants a range of suppliers and diversity of thought as part of her drive to achieve the government’s hospital programme
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Government policy: end-of-year review
With the parliamentary year having drawn to a close, Building Boardroom looks back on the changes it has brough to government policy on design and construction. Josephine Smit reports