All Features articles – Page 84
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FeaturesRoundtable: Sell the benefits
Convincing clients to use digital technology and implementing new ways of working can be complex — so how should we digitalise?
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FeaturesImage of the week: Oodi-shaped building
Oodi, the new central library in Helsinki, Finland, is a striking glass and steel structure with a wooden facade
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FeaturesSmart building: What makes UCL's Student Centre so special?
University College London’s new Student Centre is innovative, diverse, digitally enabled and focused on sustainability – just like its users.
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FeaturesTracker: July 2019
Among dramatic ups and downs in activity and orders, tender growth slowed across the board, with non-residential flatlining at 50
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2011 — Hell to pay
In 2011, Building reported on SMEs’ battles to gain credit – it might strike a chord with businesses facing slowing investment in this week’s piece on financing
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Family home, Bahrain
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Félicie Krikler, director at Assael Architecture
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FeaturesImage of the week: Awaiting departure
An information board for the new Crossrail station at Bond Street station in London, where 500 people are reported to be working 24 hours a day
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FeaturesUK Construction Week flies the flag for careers in construction
UK Construction Week (UKCW) is pushing the boundaries once again to promoting construction as a career and helping established professionals to learn too
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FeaturesSingapore Changi airport: The shape of water
Ike Ijeh looks at the challenges of constructing the world’s tallest indoor waterfall
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FeaturesInternational cost comparison 2019
A slowdown in the growth of the global economy brings both challenges and opportunities for the construction sector around the world, alongside some cause for cautious optimism, says Agnieszka Krzyzaniak of Arcadis
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FeaturesCPD 12 2019: Facade design – safety, aesthetics and practicalities
This CPD, sponsored by Siderise, outlines developments in cladding used in high-rise residential tower blocks and examines the testing involved prior to installation
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FeaturesAccess to finance: The banks that like to say ‘no’
Investors are running scared of construction – put off by the collapse of Carillion, historically low returns and the feeling a problem job is just around the corner. So, is there anything the industry can do to improve its access to finance?
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FeaturesRaising the Bar competence report: explained
Raising the Bar could be one of the biggest shake-ups the industry has seen in decades. But has it been set up to fail?
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FeaturesWhat will the Tokyo 2020 Olympic venues look like?
Ike Ijeh discovers that some arenas originally built for the 1964 summer games in Tokyo will be recycled for use in the next Olympiad
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2016 — Let the games begin
As the venues being constructed for the Tokyo 2020 near completion, we look back on the problems that hit the Rio Olympiad in 2016
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FeaturesMarket forecast Q2 2019: Slowing down
All construction work output experienced a fillip in Q1 2019, while tender prices increased over the year at Q2 2019
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Kersfield Estate, Wandsworth, London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Mae architects
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