All Features articles – Page 92
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FeaturesAre permitted development rights a stroke of genius, or have they created a new generation of slums?
The government’s scheme to allow developers to bypass the planning system has been a roaring success, but why do so many want to ditch it?
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FeaturesProjects: How the Royal Papworth Hospital has health at heart
The Royal Papworth hospital has moved into a brand-new building that places health outcomes at its centre
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FeaturesNot a good look: assessing construction's image problem
A recent brace of surveys show that while construction is few youngsters’ first choice of career, once working inside the sector most find it fulfilling
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FeaturesTracker: March 2019
Overall activity slipped to its lowest point in almost three years, with contraction in every sector, while tenders continued to fall
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FeaturesBuilding podcast: Crossrail latest, construction's climate change action, and solving the competency problem
Listen on our website here or on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or your preferred podcast app
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FeaturesProjects: Guédelon Castle, France
It may resemble a restoration project, but this 13th-century castle in France is being built from scratch entirely by hand
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2005 - And you think YOU’VE got project delays…
It’s not easy to build a castle, but some seem to have even more than the usual trouble…
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FeaturesSketch of the week: 1930s factory in Greenwich, London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Tom Lea, project architect at Coffey Architects
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FeaturesInterview: Charles O'Neil - solving construction's competency problem
Construction expert Charles O’Neil reckons the industry’s core problem is competency. So he’s doing something about it
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FeaturesOnline poll: How well is construction doing at going green?
This week’s poll: Is construction taking things seriously to mitigate the impact climate change has on construction?
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FeaturesImage of the week: Don't paint it black
A supposed Banksy mural near the former location of the Extinction Rebellion climate change activist camp in Marble Arch, London
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FeaturesElectric dreams: how construction is improving its use of clean technology
With the future of our planet at stake, construction urgently needs to prove its capacity for innovation through clean technology
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FeaturesInspirations: architecture admired by the next generation
Architecture that delights the upcoming generation of construction professionals: four of our guest editors pick buildings that either inspired them to waork in construction or have impressed on them the importance of design quality early in their careers
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FeaturesBuild-to-rent: a sleepover at a Wembley scheme
Quintain’s 5,000-home build-to-rent development in Wembley seeks to create a sense of community living through wine tastings, tutored events and supper clubs – a place where residents can return from work to a concierge-serviced, hassle-free oasis. How does it score? Hamish Champ slept the night there to find out
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FeaturesBuilding podcast special: Next Generation Takeover
Listen on our website here or on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or your preferred podcast app
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FeaturesOutreach: what the industry should do to attract school leavers
The skills shortage continues to worsen, and while the government is taking action now with the apprenticeship levy, it’s not enough. Debika Ray reports on what the industry is doing to inspire young minds and win new recruits
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Next generation takeover
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by graduate panel member Emily Scoones of Ramboll
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2003 - Tom Daley in the deep end
Building is reminded of an interview we once did with a certain young person whose career would surely have belly-flopped without the backing of this sector
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FeaturesReverse mentoring - how to give the next generation a voice
What do young people really think? What will make them join a company, and stay? Reverse mentoring might be the answer
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FeaturesWe want change! What young people in construction really think
Building’s first survey of the perceptions of young people working and studying in construction reveals its future leaders to be made up of optimists who are happy in their work. But dig deeper and they also voice many criticisms of an industry that too often seems to overlook fresh talent. ...