More Focus – Page 42
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FeaturesTimeline of Heathrow’s third runway - The longest take-off in history?
Charting the journey of the third runway from Margaret Thatcher to High Court via protests
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FeaturesBudget preview: what can construction expect?
In what will be Rishi Sunak’s first Budget, Tom Lowe considers what construction can look forward to
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FeaturesCost model: Tall buildings
London was slow to adopt tower building but the City’s distinctive skyline shows how much attitudes have changed
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Features‘They don’t want me here’: Points-based immigration in construction
With migrant workers now wary of a less welcoming environment, many are already heading elsewhere
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FeaturesSpecifier: Expanded cork at the Cork House, Eton
How a project on an island in the River Thames has changed the use of expanded cork
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FeaturesProjects: One Bishopsgate Plaza, London
The newly rebranded One Bishopsgate Plaza brings rare residential space to the City of London’s Eastern Cluster
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FeaturesConsultants’ salary survey 2020: what is your role worth?
Digital natives can take their pick of companies desperate for tech talent – but this year looks pretty good for employees all over
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FeaturesConsultants’ salary survey 2020: full tables
See the full survey results for salaries by region, profession and grade
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FeaturesRory Stewart on Sadiq Khan’s housing failures, beautiful buildings and planting trees in London
Rory Stewart faces an uphill battle to win the election – but it is a challenge he is clearly relishing
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FeaturesProjects: New Broadcasting House, BBC Cymru Wales, Cardiff
By putting a concern for neurodiversity at the heart of its design, the BBC’s headquarters in Wales has taken a radical approach
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FeaturesHS2: A long way to go
Source: Alamy Why are costs higher than on other high-speed lines around the world, how can the railway avoid Crossrail’s mistakes – and how much of it will really go ahead?
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Output rises
New work output expanded in the latest quarter to a year-on-year figure of 4%
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FeaturesWhat does construction want from the 2020 strategy?
What does the industry want from Whitehall, and how can the government achieve its five-year ambitions of reform?
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FeaturesProjects: Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice, Glasgow
It has got a beauty spa, a wedding reception venue and even a honeymoon suite, but this is not a boutique hotel
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FeaturesLead Times: October - December 2019
There was minimal movement in lead times despite some packages experiencing a change in enquiry levels and workloads
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FeaturesHas the 2016-2020 construction strategy worked?
Have the aims of the current strategy got anywhere near to being realised?
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FeaturesThe perilous life of the regional contractor
Construction companies are going bust at the rate of about one every 36 hours and regional contractors are under particular strain. Dave Rogers reports on the reasons for their demise – and what others are doing to buck the trend
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FeaturesIn pictures: 245 Hammersmith Road, London
Sheppard Robson’s sustainable, flexible office scheme casts Hammersmith in new light
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FeaturesUK Hydrographic Office in Somerset: Where wood and water meet
Bringing everything together under one roof was a central aim in creating a new headquarters for the UK Hydrographic Office – so why not make it the defining feature? Helena Russell reports
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FeaturesDelivering social value: How to build and give back
Jamie Harris talks to experts about the origins of social value – and where it could be going next