All Building articles in 11 December 2020
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FeaturesCPD 1 2021: Specifying roofs to reduce fire risk
This CPD, sponsored by ROCKWOOL, explains how to apply fire-conscious design, construction and materials specification to a building’s fifth facade – its roof
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Features5 minutes with … Shauna Bradley at Glenn Howells Architects
Director at Glenn Howells Architects in Birmingham on the challenges and joys of working in a profession that has no rules and her love of New York and sandwiches
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FeaturesNet zero and commercial property: Bruntwood case study
Building Boardroom’s exclusive Net Zero Report continues with a further case study, this time into innovation park specialist Bruntwood, to find out how the zero carbon agenda is affecting developers of commercial property
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FeaturesNet zero and the education sector
Building Boardroom’s exclusive Net Zero Report continues its sector by sector look into the impact of the new carbon agenda. Here we look at the education sector, talking to the head of energy for UK schools, Hershil Patel
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CommentHotel designers need to obsess less about covid, there are bigger issues to solve
Eventually tourism will bounce back, and when it does we have a duty to make sure it is sustainable
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Features5 minutes with … Julie Bregulla at BRE
BRE’s technical director grew up in Germany. She was recently elected as a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
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CommentUsing dispute boards in international projects
This increasingly popular approach can offer faster resolution of international disputes on live schemes
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FeaturesTop client contract awards - November 2020
The value of new work dropped from £4.4bn in September to £3.7bn according to Glenigan’s sector by sector league table of top spending clients 4.57
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FeaturesPlanning approvals by value - November 2020
The value of planning approvals jumped from October’s £5.96m to £8.6bn in November according to Glenigan’s sector by sector league table
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FeaturesAnnual planning approvals by value to November 2020
Annual planning approvals were worth £115bn in the year to November according to Glenigan’s sector by sector league table
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CommentCase in focus: Chell vs Tarmac Cement and Lime Ltd
Ted Lowery considers the implications of a practical joke on site that backfired
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FeaturesProjects of 2020: Blood, sweat and tears
2020 had its fair share of controversial projects but it also offered up some gems. We look back over quite a year…
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NewsWinners of Scape’s £1bn consultancy frameworks revealed
Agreements will run for up to six years from January 2021
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NewsKingspan insulation boss leaves in management rejig
Firm also announces new group head of compliance and certification
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NewsJenrick piles extra 35% housing target onto cities
Details behind algorithm U-turn show pressure will be on largest English cities to develop more homes
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NewsCLC calls on government to support £525bn national retrofit programme
Scheme would see overhaul of UK’s 28 million homes over the next 20 years to improve energy efficiency
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FeaturesReview of 2020: Winners, losers and obituaries
We pick out who had the best of years and who had the worst of years in 2020. Plus, some sad goodbyes to industry greats who left us forever
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FeaturesFuture Forecast: December 2020 – February 2021
The first in Building Boardroom’s quarterly sentiment surveys finds out what architects, engineers, cost consultants, project managers, contractors and specialist contractors expect to see over the next three months in terms of workloads, fees and recruitment
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FeaturesReview of 2020: Top people, in more ways than one
Despite the pandemic, the year some some top people switch roles. And across the industry at all levels, construction did its bit to help out in the crisis