All Features articles – Page 95
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FeaturesCan contractors cope with payment practice reforms?
Main contractors are under pressure to reform their payment practices, but will speeding up payments push more of them to the brink?
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FeaturesLife after Help to Buy
After six years of cheap loans for homebuyers, Help to Buy is being wound down. How will housebuilders cope with the change?
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FeaturesLondon contractors market update
What impact is the uncertainty around Brexit having on main contractor and MEP contractors’ London workloads?
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FeaturesAt a crunch shareholder meeting two hours before Interserve went under, most seats were empty
Only three people asked questions and two of them were the same
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Wildernesse restaurant in Sevenoaks, Kent
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Diego Calderon of Morris+Company
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FeaturesHow India's construction sector is heating up
The Indian construction market is hot property right now, and foreign firms are keen to get a piece of it
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2008 - When in India...
Are you inspired by this week’s exploration of the construction market in India? Here, Building offers advice
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FeaturesCPD 3 2019: Solid surface facade system
This CPD, sponsored by Avonite, will outline the design of solid surface facade systems, their installation and maintenance, and examine regulatory requirements
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FeaturesImage of the week: Blow me down!
The UK’s recent blustery weather caused 200m2 of scaffolding to collapse last week near Hampstead Heath in north London, leading to the evacuation of nearby buildings
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FeaturesOnline poll: Will Crossrail EVER open?
This week’s poll: So, it’s definitely not opening this year – but will Crossrail be ready in 2020?
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FeaturesProjects: Cambridge Mosque
When Marks Barfield Architects was asked to design Cambridge’s first purpose-built mosque, it turned for inspiration to the Garden of Paradise
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FeaturesInterserve crisis: ahead of Friday's crucial vote, will shareholders vote to rescue the contractor?
As Interserve’s financial woes start to undermine its ability to win work, the firm’s future hangs on a choice between two rival rescue plans
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FeaturesSME Profile: Heritage practice sets sights on ‘John Lewis’ model
Purcell looks to safeguard future of the business with move into employee ownership
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FeaturesAre rooftop developments the answer to London’s housing crisis?
Airspace developers tell us to imagine thousands of new homes atop existing buildings – but to make that happen they need planners to share their vision.
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FeaturesImage of the week: Standing strong
A surfer by Brighton West Pier enjoys the unseasonably warm weather as Britain repeatedly smashed February temperature records last week
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Shoreditch Town Hall, London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Jim Reed, director at architect Reed Watts
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FeaturesYour guide to Mipim 2019
As we prepare to bid a tearful farewell to Europe, there’s time for one last knees-up as EU members with our international colleagues at the annual property fair in the south of France. But it won’t all be drowning our sorrows – there will also be much talk about our ...
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2001 - Déjà vu
Though Brexit is not quite yet a fait accompli, this week we look at the annual Mipim property event with a certain nostalgia
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FeaturesOnline poll: Hopes for the housing sector
This week’s poll: Does the UK’s fast-changing housing sector provoke anxiety or hope?
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FeaturesProjects: Bloomsbury Theatre, London
Nicholas Hare Architects was faced with an unusual set of challenges in its refurbishment of UCL’s Bloomsbury Theatre, which is wrapped around by a variety of other university facilities that had to remain open during works.