All Features articles – Page 52
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Top client contract awards - April 2021
There was a slight drop in new contract awards from March’s £6.5bn to £6.2bn in April according to Glenigan’s sector by sector league table of top spending clients
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Planning approvals by value - April 2021
The value of new planning approvals dropped by £2.13bn from March to April’s £7.02bn according to Glenigan’s sector by sector league table
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In Business: Where McAlpine sees its future
Firm plans to re-establish itself in civils and infrastructure work, chief executive Paul Hamer tells Building
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How are construction employers preparing for a return to the office?
As restrictions ease again today, differences start to emerge over attitudes to flexible working arrangements
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Cost model: Zero carbon offices
UK offices could well become the standard-bearers for innovative carbon-cutting practices – here Aecom provides a cost breakdown of a typical low carbon office scheme
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5 minutes with … Richard Hutchinson at LOM
The LOM director on design waste, amazing contractors and why he always looks forward to his next meal
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Costing Steelwork 17: Market update
Costing Steelwork is a series from Aecom, BCSA and Steel for Life that provides guidance on costing structural steelwork. This quarter provides a market update and updates the five cost models previously featured in Costing Steelwork
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How Sir Robert McAlpine went digital
Shifting a large firm completely over to digital is a major challenge, though one that brings huge benefits. Building Boardroom asked Nick Leach, head of digital at McAlpine, how he managed it
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Bodmin Jail: unlocking the potential of a piece of Cornish history
Abandoned in 1927 and left to ruin for almost a century, it took a team of brave (or foolhardy?) developers to decide that Bodmin Jail had the potential to become a hotel and tourist attraction. Bats, pigeons, neighbouring builders and covid-19 ensured that realising their vision was easier said ...
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The urgency of now: how can construction meet its green targets?
A report by the Climate Change Committee sets out a host of ambitious carbon reduction targets and points to where resources need to be focused. Thomas Lane looks at three of the areas of most interest to construction and assesses what it will take to meet the targets
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You can’t build, build, build if you don’t have the materials
A global shortage of key products means prices are rising and lead times growing, potentially putting the recovery at risk. Tom Lowe reports
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Local elections: what the results mean for construction
A look at what the winning mayors have pledged in four key city regions in England
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Market forecast: High hopes
While sentiment is high for a recovery, new orders are not fully mirroring this optimism, and a supply crunch is hitting the materials chain hard
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A successful project narrative is essential for mobilising investor and supply chain engagement
A grand, aspirational vision is a much more effective way of getting a project moving than pragmatic reasons based on current need
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From me-space to we-space: welcome to the office of the future
If we are going to work collectively again, the places in which we do so will have to adapt. Here are some of the workplace solutions planners and consultants are offering up
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Net Zero Live - Time for action
Not before time, construction is getting its act together on reducing carbon emissions, as Jordan Marshall found out at Building’s two-day Net Zero Live conference
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5 minutes with … Michael Ruddick at Reds10
The firm’s director on starting out in consultancy, making the jump to offsite construction and a secret breakdancing skill
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How HS2 is accelerating innovation: an interview with Howard Mitchell
Building Boardroom talks to the man responsible for delivering HS2’s innovation programme about leveraging the scale of the project to explore imaginative but data-based new approaches
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HS2's Kay Hughes: 'We see ourselves as catalysts for creative thinking'
The design director of Britain’s biggest - and arguably most controversial - infrastructure project talks about her ambition to leave a legacy of quality structures and landscapes along the route