All Buildings, Design and Specification articles – Page 45
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FeaturesTax relief: the Structures and Buildings Allowance
The Structures and Buildings Allowance extends tax relief from plant and machinery to cover other parts of a non-residential building or structure but it can be hard to adminster
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NewsPlan for London’s £288m Centre for Music scrapped
International architectural competition for Barbican refurb to be launched instead
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FeaturesCosting Steelwork 16: 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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NewsLondon NHS trust worries cost of dealing with covid will make new hospital too expensive
Bosses say meeting new requirements will make St Helier scheme ‘unaffordable’
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FeaturesRethinking Design: how to prepare schools for the next pandemic
Continuing our series on rethinking design in the wake of the coronavirus, Jordan Marshall reports on how architects are trying to future-proof school buildings while making new-builds net zero
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NewsNational Gallery launches competition to revamp London landmark
Winner for international competition due this July
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NewsBDP working up plans for next hospital in rebuilding programme
Practice drawing up proposals for new Watford General Hospital
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Information - BuildingOn-demand webinar: The CLC on construction’s role in kick-starting economic recovery
This free Construction Leadership Council webinar is available on demand
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NewsPlans submitted for hundreds of flats at Seifert’s Tolworth Tower
Masterplan will add two towers and convert post-war landmark from offices
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FeaturesModular timber frame eco-buildings: Inspiring spaces in education, leisure and business
A sectional modular system can create a standalone space with a difference
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Features22 Handyside Street: advanced geometry, passed with distinction
Argent’s 30-hectare King’s Cross development in central London is a compendium of fashionable architects, a reference book in built form.
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FeaturesHollywood healthcare comes to Qatar
Power International Holding and Elegancia Healthcare to build 250-bed, state-of-the-art hospital in Doha
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NewsDutch modular firm plots £350m UK business
MMC housing firm Jan Snel says it is aiming to deliver a thousand homes a year
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NewsCamden pushes ahead with search for firm to repair Chalcots Estate tower
Wates had been lined up for job but left last spring
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NewsArchitects and engineers shortlisted for £600m Leeds hospital jobs
Appointments due to be made this spring
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FeaturesExplainer: the proposed Future Buildings Standard in detail
Long-awaited proposals to make non-domestic buildings greener and more efficient are now out for consultation
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NewsStanhope sets up White City covid mutant monitoring lab
West London site is growing hub for pharma and life sciences industries
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FeaturesSpecifier: Covid-safe technology
In the wake of covid-19, it is clear that infection control needs to become integral to buildings – as well as to construction sites. David Ludlow surveys some innovative products that can help protect against virus transmission
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FeaturesProcurement update: increasing productivity
Design, procurement and construction processes have become more complex over time, and the added complications of covid-19 and Brexit have piled on the pressure. Steve Watts of Alinea examines in detail the factors affecting productivity and considers how we can bring about improvements to get more for less