More Focus – Page 68
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FeaturesProjects: Pane management - the restoration of the Temperate House at Kew
The Temperate House at Kew, the world’s largest Victorian greenhouse, is about to emerge from a painstaking – and at times nerve-racking – restoration
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FeaturesTracker: December 2017
Little growth was in evidence as most indices stayed steady or contracted, while all sectors experienced less work in hand
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FeaturesProjects: Raiders of the lost car park
Multi-storey car parks may not traditionally have been seen as desirable real estate, but a lucky few are being repurposed as everything from luxury hotels to micro-flats
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FeaturesCarillion: Questions to be answered
Ahead of next week’s Select Committee grilling of Carillion’s directors, Joey Gardiner delves into the £5bn contractor’s accounting practices and how it got itself into such an unholy mess
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FeaturesMarket review: Falling forecasts
Declines in productivity and real wages, along with the uncertainty around Brexit, are driving down growth forecasts. But only one economic sector actually shrank in Q3 2017 - construction
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FeaturesAnalysis: Housing benefits
Help to Buy is the government’s big leg-up to help housebuilders increase output. So news of ‘obscene’ executive pay along with scandals over leaseholds and defects are not going down well
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FeaturesDigital construction: Better, faster, stronger
Construction needs to get with the programme. The new tech programme, that is, which can offer radical and disruptive solutions to help deal with the housing needs of a rapidly expanding population. So what’s on offer, and how could it affect your working life?
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FeaturesSustainability - productive workplace
With UK productivity lagging, the workplace environment can be a critical factor in driving improvements. How should you evaluate and improve workplace productivity?
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Digital construction
An augmented reality app for choosing boilers and a platform that enables visualisation of how a project changes over time are among this week’s featured products
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FeaturesCarillion: counting the cost
Carillion’s collapse has left 30,000 subcontractors out of pocket to the tune of £1.2bn. How was the contractor allowed to get away with ths?
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FeaturesCost model: Garden towns and villages
The government is calling for a new generation of garden towns and villages to ease the housing crisis. More sophisticated masterplanning approaches are needed to deliver these complicated projects
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FeaturesProjects: Tales from the riverbank
On a tight site whose logistical challenges include four London Underground tunnels, the £1.5bn Southbank Place is rapidly taking shape, using BIM and prefabrication to push the project along
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FeaturesBill Hocking: Dealer's choice
Bill Hocking, boss of Galliford Try’s construction arm, might have felt he’d been dealt a bad hand when he took over the job two years ago, but now that he holds all the cards, he’s moved to reduce the risk the firm takes on
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FeaturesCarillion Analysis: The fall of a titan
Carillion was once a colossus that bestrode the construction world. Now it’s bust. The question on everyone’s lips is, how could this happen?
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Features#YouToo? Women in construction
It’s not just happening in Hollywood. The results of Building and Hays Recruitment's survey on gender issues make for disturbing reading
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FeaturesWomen in Construction survey - key findings
Read background details on the survey’s key findings, plus graphs and data
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FeaturesA woman's experience in construction - an anonymous account
This anonymous survey respondent has shared their experiences throughout their career in construction. We are sharing the alarming testimonial in full.
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FeaturesWomen in Construction survey views: harrassment
As part of the Building/Hays Women in Construction 2018 survey, we invited anonymous responses from women and men on a number of issues
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FeaturesHackitt Review: 'We can't carry on as before'
The Hackitt interim report holds out the prospect of a profound change in the way construction does business. Is industry ready for it?
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FeaturesWomen in Construction survey views: recruiting more women
As part of the Building/Hays Women in Construction 2018 survey, we invited anonymous responses from women and men on a number of issues