All Features articles – Page 97
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FeaturesCrossrail delay: what's gone wrong – and why
Already a year behind schedule and with no end in sight, Crossrail is burning £30m a week in cash as it struggles to reach completion – but as yet, no one can say when that might be. Why is the trans-London line causing such pain?
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FeaturesFuturebuild 2019: Uniting industry to tackle the big issues
Taking place on 05-07 March at ExCeL London, Futurebuild 2019 will tackle the biggest challenges impacting the industry
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Hotel in Lake Chapala, Mexico
This week’s #buildingdoodle is by Diego Calderon, director of DF_DC architects
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FeaturesBuilding podcast: Interserve's woes, London's new symphony hall, and what is your role worth?
This Building podcast includes troubling times for Interserve, London’s £288m symphony hall and this year’s consultants’ salary survey
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FeaturesConsultants’ salary survey 2019: what is your role worth?
Skills shortages mean salaries in the sector are rising more rapidly than inflation, and more people are looking to move jobs
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FeaturesConsultants' salary survey 2019: full tables
See full survey results for salaries by region, profession and grade
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FeaturesOnline poll: Be my valentine
This week’s poll: Is construction your valentine or have you fallen out of love with the industry?
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FeaturesImage of the week: Truly, madly, deeply
The pedestrian section of the Maastunnel in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, was converted into a Tunnel of Love this week to celebrate the tunnel’s 77th anniversary, which fell on Valentine’s Day
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FeaturesMarket forecast Q4 2018: Losing confidence
Tender prices in the year to Q4 kept climbing in the wake of rising building costs, as construction output rebounded in Q3 – but new orders dropped
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FeaturesProjects: London's new £288m Centre for Music
London is set to gain a new world-class symphony hall – but will the planned £288m Centre for Music face the battles and delays that dog so many major cultural projects?
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2009 - Would you bet on Donald Trump?
Building looks back 10 years to when Donald Trump’s casino company went under. Has he learned about achieving victory - and solvency - since then?
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FeaturesInterserve: will its latest rescue plan save the struggling contractor?
With its largest shareholder planning to revolt against its latest rescue plan, what hope is there that Interserve will survive?
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FeaturesWorking abroad in construction: what should you know before you make the move?
Professionals who have relocated for work give practical tips for anyone contemplating doing the same
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FeaturesWorking abroad in construction: part two
Read more profiles of construction professionals who have made the move away from the UK
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FeaturesWorking abroad in construction: the employer's perspective
Building also spoke with David Carey at Turner Townsend, who supports the firm’s staff making overseas transfers, to find out about the employer’s role. What support should the employers give, and which areas are better left for the individual to sort?
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FeaturesOnline poll: Low-bidding
This week’s poll: Have you noticed an increase in low bidding for construction work?
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FeaturesAre stressed contractors returning to suicide bidding to procure work?
The Brexit deadline is just seven weeks away – and still, nothing is any clearer. As tension rises, schemes are frozen and insolvencies increase, stressed contractors may turn to the bad old practice of bidding low just to keep things moving.
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Forton Services, near Lancaster, 1964
This week’s #buildingdoodle is by Wesley Baker, architectural assistant at tp bennett
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FeaturesIs the future of HS2 at risk?
This is a crucial year for HS2. As it waits for the government to give the signal to proceed in earnest, there are fears that rising costs could derail the project
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FeaturesImage of the week: If pigs had wings
Sydney’s Chinese New Year festivities are the largest outside Asia; its Opera House glowed red on Monday to celebrate the start of the Year of the Pig