All Buildings, Design and Specification articles – Page 39
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Information - BuildingOn-demand webinar | Innovation in materials: How to avoid brick stains and efflorescence
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Information - BuildingOn-demand webinar | What can the industry do to best combat the materials shortages?
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NewsMore suppliers clamp down on sales of cement as demand rockets
Building understands Cemex and Breedon rationing supplies of products as post-lockdown boom shows no sign of slowing down
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NewsGreen light for RMA’s 25-storey east London tower
Plans for 274 homes led by Muse and Poplar Harca
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NewsWorld’s tallest modular tower officially launched
HTA Design says Croydon tower built from ready-built pods sets new standards for high rise housing
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NewsBallymore to spend £20m on fire safety repairs
Developer will not confirm if amount will cover all remediation costs
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NewsLocal MP launches objection to £800m Greenwich scheme, saying it is too tall
OMA-designed development would include four towers up to 36-storeys in height
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NewsLondon office starts up 20% as commercial sector roars back into action
More than half of schemes are major refurbishments
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FeaturesCost model: Zero carbon offices
UK offices could well become the standard-bearers for innovative carbon-cutting practices – here Aecom provides a cost breakdown of a typical low carbon office scheme
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FeaturesCosting Steelwork 17: Market update
Costing Steelwork is a series from Aecom, BCSA and Steel for Life that provides guidance on costing structural steelwork. This quarter provides a market update and updates the five cost models previously featured in Costing Steelwork
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FeaturesBodmin Jail: unlocking the potential of a piece of Cornish history
Abandoned in 1927 and left to ruin for almost a century, it took a team of brave (or foolhardy?) developers to decide that Bodmin Jail had the potential to become a hotel and tourist attraction. Bats, pigeons, neighbouring builders and covid-19 ensured that realising their vision was easier said ...
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NewsIn pictures: Structure Tone completes food chain Eataly’s first UK outpost
Scheme built almost entirely during pandemic
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FeaturesYou can’t build, build, build if you don’t have the materials
A global shortage of key products means prices are rising and lead times growing, potentially putting the recovery at risk. Tom Lowe reports
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NewsACM ‘not involved’ in Ballymore block blaze
Developer claims Grenfell-style combustible cladding played no part in major fire at New Providence Wharf development
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FeaturesFrom me-space to we-space: welcome to the office of the future
If we are going to work collectively again, the places in which we do so will have to adapt. Here are some of the workplace solutions planners and consultants are offering up
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NewsWestminster green lights £750m Victoria office scheme
Council approves plans to demolish House of Fraser store and replace it with 16-storey block
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NewsGreen light for Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ Fulham office block
Scheme will require demolition of 1930s building within conservation area
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FeaturesHow construction can adapt to better serve life sciences
Life sciences is a fast expanding and evolving sector. Building, together with international consultant Linesight, gathered industry experts to discuss the sector’s challenges and how innovation and technology can help the construction industry best deliver life sciences projects