All Building articles in 21 November 2014 – Page 4

  • Steve Douglas
    Comment

    Don't write off small associations

    2014-11-19T07:01:00Z

    There’s an opportunity for small developers to help realise social housing construction

  • Richard Steer 2014
    Comment

    Landlords - the new pariahs

    2014-11-19T07:00:00Z

    The private rented sector gets a bad press, but it’s time to shine a little light into the darkness

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    Features

    BIM architecture: The vision thing

    2014-11-19T06:00:00Z

    BIM isn’t normally seen as a design tool but increasingly it can influence what a building looks like. We explore the possibilities and dangers of BIM-inspired architecture

  • Kirstin Bardel
    Comment

    NEC3: Awareness is preparedness

    2014-11-19T06:00:00Z

    Like most contracts, the NEC3 contract deals with risks and might present some too

  • Glazing_Vision_Rooflight
    Features

    What to specify: Roofing

    2014-11-18T09:08:00Z

    This week’s roofing products include bespoke rooflighting for an RIBA award-winning house in Suffolk and a roofing system at a new care housing scheme in North Yorkshire

  • Adrian Malone
    Comment

    Beyond BIM tools

    2014-11-18T07:15:00Z

    Industry-wide adoption of BIM is about more than software - we must also change the way we manage projects

  • Rudi Klein
    Comment

    Retentions: On the money

    2014-11-18T06:00:00Z

    What happens to cash retentions if the contractor goes bust and there is no provision in the contract stating that the money was to be held in trust?

  • Julie Hirigoyen
    Comment

    The wage gap

    2014-11-18T06:00:00Z

    The CBI is right to say we need fair rates of pay to secure economic and social stabiity, and in construction this approach could also help secure the next generation of workers

  • Richard Blair
    Comment

    What now for Scotland?

    2014-11-17T09:57:00Z

    The ‘no’ vote in the Scottish referendum was supposed to have created certainty for business, but it seems to have only raised more, and very fundamental, questions about Scotland’s future

  • Helen Gough
    Comment

    Refurbishing Bush House

    2014-11-17T09:09:00Z

    It’s a privilege to work on historically sensitive refurbishments and it takes the very best talent in our industry to do it well