All Features articles – Page 120
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Features2018 in construction: Building's review of the year - part one
So, what did Santa’s last round of offerings bring the industry? It’s not been a stocking full of pleasant surprises
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FeaturesBuilding's Projects of the Year 2018 - part 2
Ike Ijeh rounds up the year’s architectural excitements
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FeaturesBuilding's Projects of the Year 2018 - part 1
An embassy, a giant greenhouse, a metropolitan retail redevelopment, a Scottish museum and a totemic tower. Ike Ijeh rounds up the year’s architectural excitements.
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FeaturesCost update Q3 2018
A quarterly analysis of changes to the main construction cost indices, material prices and labour costs shows continuing upward movement
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FeaturesImage of the week: Mellow yellow
Willmott Dixon staff show off the high-tech exoskeleton vests they are trialling with robotics firm Eksobionics on a school scheme in Cardiff. We trust the rioting ‘gilets jaunes’ in Paris don’t trade up to the tech-enabled versions …
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FeaturesInterview: Dar's Andrew Loudon talks to Building
Dar may still be an unfamiliar name to many, but the Beirut-based owner of Currie Brown, Elementa and Perkins+Will has ambitions to grow its operations rapidly in the UK, Brexit notwithstanding
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FeaturesSketch of the week: 2018 Engineering Sketches Prize
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Gustaf Granstrom, a senior structural engineer at Heyne Tillett Steel in London
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2008 – A zoo solution
It’s not often that our Building archivists are taken aback by something they find buried in the magazine’s dusty library
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FeaturesHackitt review and regaining trust: ‘The industry has created a monster’
With the government’s formal response to the Hackitt review of building regulations and fire safety expected soon, a panel of industry experts at Building Live discussed their own responses – and how trust in the sector can be won back
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FeaturesOnline poll: Mandated margins?
This week’s poll: Should the government mandate a 5% margin for main contractors on public sector work?
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FeaturesBD Live’s first ever live design competition: A new quarter for Canada Water
Architects competed at Building Live with plans for the London development’s retail space
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FeaturesCities love to build arts venues to trigger urban regeneration - but it doesn't always work out
It’s called the Bilbao effect: a city engages an architect to build an arts venue in the expectation that urban regeneration will follow. Alas, it doesn’t always turn out this way
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FeaturesTracker: October 2018
Civil engineering activity built further on its September gains after four months of decline, while non‑residental was the only sector in which activity failed to grow last month
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FeaturesFire protection and thermal insulation
Fire protection and thermal insulation are no contradiction. Thin, effective insulation and fire protection are indeed compatible. Since this year the new insulation material CALOSTAT ® is available in the UK and already used in several objects in London.
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FeaturesProjects: Blackfriars Circus, London
Maccreanor Lavington’s Blackfriars Circus for Barratt Homes does everything a scheme centred on a 27-storey residential tower can do to engage with London’s architectural heritage
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FeaturesImage of the week: All things bright and beautiful
Visitors can make a special Christmas trip to London Zoo after the animals have gone to bed, to wander a mile-long illuminated pathway dotted with light sculptures of larger-than-life wild creatures
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 1934
As we look at how the construction industry is preparing for Brexit – in as logical a way as possible but still with little clarity on what to expect – the phrase “on a wing and a prayer” came to mind.
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FeaturesSketch of the week: 120-bed hotel, Poole, Dorset
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Ewen Miller, managing director at Calderpeel Architects
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FeaturesEconomics: Infrastructure – railway upgrades
Chris Pike and Simon Rawlinson of Arcadis examine the contribution that innovative engineering can make to delivering better outcomes for all users
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FeaturesOnline poll: London housebuilding targets
This week’s poll: Can mayor Sadiq Khan hit his housebuilding targets for London?