More Focus – Page 106
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FeaturesBuilding intelligence: Q1 2015
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that total construction output hit its highest year-on-year level since 2008. Experian Economics reports
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FeaturesTracker: May 2015
The construction activity index picked up again following a fallow April, while the number of respondents posting no construction activity constraints reached an all-time high
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FeaturesInterview: Steve Elliott
Steve Elliott took Morgan Sindall’s fit-out business to an industry-leading position. After taking a year out he’s ‘got the band back together’ at BW Interiors and is thinking big again
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FeaturesWhole-life carbon: Retrofit vs EnerPHit
Assessments show retrofit to EnerPHit level, the Passivhaus retrofit standard, can reduce whole-life carbon emissions by 40% compared to typical Part L
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FeaturesAre QSs fit for purpose? Your views
Readers react to our recent feature on QSs failure to price projects accurately
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FeaturesGraveney School: Shining example
Tooting’s Graveney School teaches architecture to its schoolchildren, invites architects to lecture, and counts architects among its alumni
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FeaturesWomen in engineering: The only way is up
With women making up fewer than 10% of engineers in the UK, what can be done to encourage more to join the profession?
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FeaturesMarket review: Mixed signals
The construction sector is still thriving but according to economic indicators there was a fall in activity in services and manufacturing
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Commercial
This week’s commercial products include bespoke ceiling panels for the 47 floors of The Leadenhall Building
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FeaturesFrom the archives in 1992
Back in 1992 Building paid a visit to site of Waterloo train station’s international terminal, which opened in 1994
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FeaturesAction station: Bond street tube station
A cramped site 20m underground, below a busy street is not an easy place to conduct the £320m upgrade of Bond Street tube station. Especially when the only access is via two 9m-wide shafts.
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FeaturesSkills: Up to the job?
With funding of apprenticeships under threat and training providers not always churning out people with the right skills, how will we get the workers we need?
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FeaturesPC Harrington: The higher they climb…
When PC Harrington Contractors collapsed into administration in May, it had debts of around £28.4m and just £900 cash in the bank. We reveal the true story of the firm’s demise
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FeaturesSustainability: Life cycle carbon management
Usual depictions of a building’s carbon life cycle fail to consider the day-to-day running of the place. Reimagining a building’s life cycle could improve its carbon efficiency
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FeaturesForesight saga
QSs are supposed to price a job accurately and de-risk procurement. But some clients are wondering what they’re paying them for
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FeaturesFree webinar: Using BIM on the London Bridge project
Hear views from key players on how BIM is being used on one of the capital’s landmark infrastructure projects
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FeaturesInfrastructure: Keep the engine running
Lack of investment in UK infrastructure could be a serious barrier to economic growth, but is the government prepared to pay for it?
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FeaturesLondon Business School: A perfect match
Sheppard Robson’s partial conversion of the Westminster Register Office complex includes a glazed link building for the entrance
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FeaturesFree webinar: The future of school building
Hear views from architects, contractors and QSs on the Conservative government’s school building plans and the impact of tight budgets on projects
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FeaturesCost model: Car parks
While a concept relatively unchanged over the past 50 years, car parks can still have a dramatic impact on commercial space around them