All Features articles – Page 74
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FeaturesUK Hydrographic Office in Somerset: Where wood and water meet
Bringing everything together under one roof was a central aim in creating a new headquarters for the UK Hydrographic Office – so why not make it the defining feature? Helena Russell reports
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FeaturesCosting Steelwork 12: 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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FeaturesDelivering social value: How to build and give back
Jamie Harris talks to experts about the origins of social value – and where it could be going next
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FeaturesProjects: 7D BIM - The BIM Identity
Could the holy grail of BIM-enabled whole-life cost estimation be one step closer?
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FeaturesA taste for the hard stuff: Laing O’Rourke’s Stewart McIntyre
A year after Laing O’Rourke agreed a crucial £177m refinancing deal, the man who fought against the odds to make it happen talks to Building
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FeaturesWhat works: Role-playing exercises
Arcadis’ Greg Bradley explains a training technique that has helped his team learn to deal quickly with the challenges of working on projects
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FeaturesProjects: The Londoner, Leicester Square
Faced with severe space constraints on the site of the former Odeon cinema in Leicester Square, Edwardian Hotels has built more than half of The Londoner underground
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FeaturesCost model: Birmingham build to rent
Birmingham’s build-to-rent sector is belatedly taking off
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FeaturesWhy is the Home Building Fund failing to reach small builders?
Despite being the main target of the fund and the ones that need it most, SME housebuilders are struggling to access the cash
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FeaturesCaroline Pidgeon: A decade spent scrutinising Crossrail
Caroline Pidgeon knows Crossrail inside out after scrutinising the project for a decade and grilling its key players for London’s transport committee. She speaks to Jordan Marshall about exactly what has gone wrong, why the delay is so frustrating and lessons to be learned
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Delamere addiction rehab centre, Cheshire
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Rob Henderson, director at JDA Architects
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FeaturesMy first project: Andrew Pryke
He had the chance of a lifetime when he was made project architect on James Stirling’s No1 Poultry at Bank in the City of London
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FeaturesCounting the human cost of late payment
Industry experts discuss the pain created by delayed payments, what causes the issue and how to eradicate the problem for good
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FeaturesProjects: University College Hospital, London
Despite engaging heavily with traditional build techniques the facade of University College Hospital’s latest addition is entirely prefabricated.
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FeaturesIR35: Is this the end of the road for the freelance?
New rules for off-payroll consultants are sending shockwaves through the industry – with some predicting blanket bans on the use of freelancers on projects
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Hero of Switzerland, Loughborough Junction, London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by the Gensler team
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FeaturesWill Persimmon now put its own house in order?
Has Persimmon’s financial success come at the expense of quality and safety?
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FeaturesWhat works: The nine-day fortnight
Karen Mosley explains why a day off every two weeks can be better for everyone
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FeaturesBehind the hype: Explaining construction’s buzzwords
The latest series of Building podcasts casts an ear over some of the jargon and buzzwords that have become ingrained in the construction lexicon
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FeaturesProjects: Principal Place, London
Norman Foster’s first residential tower in London sits between the city’s financial centre and its hipster heart