All Buildings, Design and Specification articles – Page 22
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NewsBritish Land to submit plans to turn £20m City car park into logistics hub later this year
Developer targeting more work in last-mile delivery push
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NewsIn pictures: Birmingham reveals vision to turn city's ring-road green
Plans launched at property conference
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NewsRetrofit 23: The Building Centre explore retrofitting at scale
The Retrofit 23 exhibition and events programme will explore the factors necessary to achieve an accelerated delivery of domestic retrofitting at different scales
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Features‘Try it, learn, and try again’: the sandpit projects trialling ways to build faster and better
Balfour Beatty and RLB have been part of a team working on some disruptive ideas to make construction more efficient. Has it caught the attention of government clients?
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NewsPlans lodged for nearly 5,000 homes in Manchester city centre
Towers up to 34 storeys in height to form first phase of £4bn Victoria North regneration scheme
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NewsMultiplex lands £200m Holborn Viaduct office scheme
Scheme designed by architect PLP will be new headquarters for law firm Hogan Lovells
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CommentThe designer manager: a new role that addresses a developing need
Clients, designers and project managers will all benefit if a designer manager is in place to supervise the team
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NewsSellar’s Liverpool Street station scheme submitted for planning
Decision on controversial £1.5bn overhaul expected next year
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NewsHeritage campaigners tell Gove to call in £1.5bn plan to redevelop Liverpool Street station
Proposals set for planning submission in coming weeks
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FeaturesCost model: Universities need to answer tough questions about their priorities
Aecom’s Rory Armstrong and Steven Jenkins explain what’s happening in the tertiary education sector and offer a cost model of a typical building
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NewsLiverpool Street overhaul set for planning submission in coming weeks as new images revealed
Proposals could go in to City as soon as next week
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Heading for a fall?
Construction output has been on the up, but can this continue in the face of economic uncertainty? Housebuilding in particular looks set for a fall
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NewsManchester City submits plans for £300m Etihad stadium expansion
Construction on boosted North Stand set to start in November
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NewsBath Rugby set for summer submission for stadium expansion
Wasps also reportedly mulling over plans for new ground
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NewsFosters’ plans for Oxford science research facility set for approval
Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine is being bankrolled by world’s seventh richest person
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FeaturesFrom the archives: Britain’s dim view of the Eiffel Tower, 1886-89
Writers in The Builder express complete disdain for the newly built Parisian landmark, describing it as a ”useless attempt to astonish the eye”
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NewsZaha Hadid starts work on £600m twin towers scheme without TfL land swap deal
Early works at Vauxhall site are now underway to save planning consent, which expires this Sunday
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FeaturesWhy build with concrete when you can build with stone?
Stone is typically stronger than concrete with one third of the carbon impact. Engineer Webb Yates is reinventing an ancient material for the modern age
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NewsLandsec’s 1,800-home O2 scheme approved following second staircase redesign
Scheme was redesigned to add second staircases following Sadiq Khan’s fire safety ruling
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NewsLandsec the latest to be caught out by London’s new second staircase rule
Developer forced to redesign 1,800-home Camden scheme following mayor’s fire safety ruling