All Building articles in 11 July 2025 – Page 7
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NewsKeller chief executive to step down
Ground engineer says Michael Speakman will leave in August ‘to continue with his necessary medical treatment’
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CommentWhy are we seeing a surge in latent defects claims?
Remediation surveys prompted by post-Grenfell legislation are exposing other defects
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FeaturesRemembering Geoffrey Trickey (1 Sept 1935 to 23 May 2025)
Paul Morrell pays tribute to the former senior partner of Davis Langdon & Everest (now part of Aecom), who died in May, just a few months short of his 90th birthday.
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NewsFoster & Partners named winner of competition to design national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II
Practice beats big names including Heatherwick Studio and Wilkinson Eyre to win £46m St James’s Park scheme
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NewsAdam Architecture picked for 2,000-home eco scheme in Essex
Development will be built using Biohaus panel system and factory will be established for the project
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NewsEnergy costs for high growth sectors to be slashed under 10-year industrial strategy
Steel and life sciences among sectors to be given discounts
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NewsPlans in for Christ’s College Cambridge library designed by Stirling Prize winner
Grafton Architects’ proposal will replace 1970s-built structure
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NewsBarely 10% of building safety gateway 2 submissions for new builds have been approved, latest figures say
Data provided by Cast says average cost of getting green light at this stage is close to £28,000
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CommentWe must go back to basics to keep the talent within our industry
Workers are motivated more than ever to look for – and stay with – employers whose values align with their own, says Eleanor Thomas of Southern Construction Framework
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NewsPlans to add boutique hotel on top of listed City office block submitted
Square Mile’s latest office to hotel conversion would add four storeys to Victorian-era St Clement’s House
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NewsBerkeley announces new executive chair and CEO as profit dips
Housebuilder says government needs to speed up s106 agreements and gateway 2 sign-offs
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NewsHS2 contracts rushed into while client needed to make more use of ‘negotiating levers’ such as retendering jobs, official review finds
Report by James Stewart adds much of inflation on jobs should be risk ‘retained by government’
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Features5 minutes with … Josh Croft at Edmond Shipway
The firm’s M&E director on coordination on the road to net zero, learning from mistakes, maintaining a good work-life balance and why he dislikes the Etihad stadium
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NewsTreasury adopts ‘bespoke’ approach for funding and governing so-called 'mega-projects' like HS2 and Sizewell C
Office for Value for Money says such schemes, which cost more than £10bn and run for longer than a decade, are currently ‘not set up for success’
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NewsIndustry welcomes government’s 10-year infrastructure strategy
Plan sets out how £725bn will be spent on infrastructure over next decade
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NewsWates brings in Mace boss to fill chief commercial role
Pat Fitzgerald begins new job in September
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NewsCritical maintenance spend to rise to £10bn a year in decade-long infrastructure strategy
Chancellor’s deputy sets out planned £752bn investment in infrastructure over next decade
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NewsKorean firm to take over London hotel job stalled by collapse of modular contractor
20-year-old Elements (Europe) Limited specialised in room modules and bathroom pods