More Focus – Page 116
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FeaturesCrossrail: Service update
As Crossrail celebrates a trio of significant milestones, Ike Ijeh takes a look at the current state of play
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Roofing
Green roofs, clay roofs and even BIM-ready roofs. Whatever you’ve currently got in mind for roofing solutions, these manufacturers can top it
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FeaturesBAR yachting HQ: At the rate of knots
Ben Ainslie Racing’s Portsmouth HQ embodies the bold spirit of the yacht teams it will house
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FeaturesRetrofit: Low expectations
David Blackman looks at the vanishing chances of making green retrofit a national infrastructure priority
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FeaturesBudget preview: Ace up Osborne's sleeve?
Freed from the shackles of coalition government, chancellor George Osborne will be outlining some quite different policies and priorities when he presents his emergency Budget next week
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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