All Features articles – Page 85
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FeaturesSomewhere along the line: How is the Crossrail delay impacting local businesses?
Businesses next to and near the sites where new Crossrail stations are being built are at once feeling the pinch from a lack of footfall as the project stutters and looking forward to increased revenue from more customers when the project finally completes
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FeaturesImage of the week: Didcot power station
The cooling towers at the disused coal-fired Didcot power station in Oxfordshire are demolished
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FeaturesAre contractors with poor payment records about to be let off the hook?
A government plan barring late-paying contractors from bidding for major public contracts comes into effect in September. But there are loopholes
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FeaturesTracker: June 2019
Overall activity continued to gather momentum in June, and all sectoral activity indices reflected expansionary tendencies
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FeaturesLight years away: how close are we to space tourism?
Space tourism still has some giant leaps to make before humankind can take a holiday on the moon. What’s slowing lift-off?
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2013 — In a hotel far, far away
As we look at the progress of space tourism, the archive revealed what lunar holiday resorts could look like – don’t expect any Jacuzzis or all-inclusive cocktails
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FeaturesImage of the week: Into the wood
A visitor poses by the White Gates at the 2019 Archstoyanie annual festival of landscape objects in the Nikola-Lenivets art park in Russia’s Kaluga region
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FeaturesA construction holiday: A nerd’s guide to site-seeing
From playing I-spy with heavy plant to gasping in awe at hydro-electric dams, here is our guide to ‘geeking out’ on construction while on holiday
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Mixed-use modular scheme, central London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Dominic Eaton, director at Stride Treglown
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FeaturesCPD 11 2019: Lighting, wellbeing and productivity
This CPD, sponsored by Helvar, will look at the issues around the effectiveness of good lighting systems
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FeaturesFacing the Future – the Big Construction Survey - win an iPad air
Have your say and you could win an iPad Air
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FeaturesCost model: Reinventing retail assets
In the face of tough market conditions, landlords, developers and owner/occupier retailers are looking at new business models
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FeaturesBuilding podcast: Meet Building's digital champions
Listen on our website here or on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or your preferred podcast app
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FeaturesProjects: The story of The Tide, the Greenwich Peninsula High Line
The new part-elevated park in Greenwich Peninsula is remarkable for its use of prefabrication and parametric 3D modelling. But will it wash with the public?
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2018 - A fresh look at the Big Apple
The UK version of New York’s High Line has a lot to live up to, as shown by an interview about the famous regeneration project
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FeaturesOffsite: Could schools soon be built in a fortnight?
A consortium of firms aims to create a standardised way to construct hundreds of school buildings a year – and the Department for Education is right behind them
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FeaturesHow will Boris Johnson’s government affect you?
As Johnson’s new cabinet gets ready to act, Building looks at how they could change different construction sectors
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FeaturesKeeping a historic face on it – retained facades
Szerelmey Restoration has specialized in facade retention projects for many years, including Lion Plaza, Threadneedle Street
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Hospital extension in Sheffield
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Duncan Finch, director of Avanti Architects