More Focus – Page 48
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FeaturesProjects: Mace's 'rising factory' at Victory Plaza, London
Do new processes such as Mace’s ‘rising factories’ help deliver projects more quickly and efficiently?
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FeaturesLead times: April - June 2019
The forecast is for little change with workload and enquiry levels being static
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FeaturesIntroducing Building’s digital champions: ‘You have just got to be brave’
Here we present our digital champions: construction professionals for whom digital is ingrained and embedded in everything they do
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FeaturesCosting steelwork July 2019: Market update
This quarter provides a market update and updates the five cost models previously featured in Costing Steelwork
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FeaturesTop 150 Contractors and Housebuilders 2019: Treading a tightrope
How will the current top players ensure they survive to earn a place on next year’s table?
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FeaturesTop 150 Contractors and Housebuilders 2019: The tables
Building reveals its exclusive Top 150 contractors and housebuilders league tables
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards 2019: The winners
This year’s completed scheme winners and the Housing Design Awards 2019 overall winner
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards 2019: Uncompleted scheme winners
This year’s winners take a smart approach to densification that shows how to provide quality living space in constrained sites
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FeaturesInternational salary survey 2019
This year’s Hays International Salary Survey shows juicy opportunities in several regions – but UK professionals aren’t biting yet
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FeaturesRoundtable: Gathering speed - the future of infrastructure
As Londoners’ views on the city’s infrastucture were revealed in a new report, industry experts gathered to discuss the future of infrastructure
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FeaturesWas moving into support services to blame for the recent troubles at Carillion, Interserve and Kier?
These major contractors blended their traditional work with support services and all recently got into big financial trouble. Coincidence?
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FeaturesTracker: May 2019
Total activity decreased for the third consecutive month, though orders remained in positive territory
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FeaturesBuilding intelligence: Q1 2019
Uncertainty continued to subdue growth across most sectors, although large infrastructure projects provided a bright spot
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FeaturesChanging the DNA: how building using a cement substitute is reducing global carbon emissions
Imperial College London’s £90m biomedical engineering research centre is built from an unusual material. Thomas Lane reports on how the challenges of working with GGBS have been overcome to imposing effect
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Features‘We can’t continue as we are’: Philip Hoare, Atkins, talks to Building
Atkins’ new president talks about embracing digital, his plans to grow the firm outside the UK and his determination to transform construction’s broken models
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FeaturesShaylor Group: What went wrong?
Jonathan Owen reports on how the firm became one of an increasing number of companies to crash into insolvency
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FeaturesDigital brilliance in 5 easy steps
What are top companies looking for when they hire new recruits in this increasingly digitalised industry?
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FeaturesWhat is automation good for?
Automation tends to polarise opinions: either it’s the great saviour of construction or the rise of the machines threatens to de-skill professionals
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FeaturesGrowth market: Serviced apartments
The blurring of the lines between residential and hospitality in the emerging serviced apartments segment and examine the design considerations and cost factors that developers should take into account
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FeaturesOffsite, on trend - why volumetric modular construction is the future
There’s huge pressure for construction to find offsite solutions to boost its productivity and meet the housing and infrastructure needs of the country