All Features articles – Page 161
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FeaturesImage of the week: Picturing resistance
A Zaha Hadid painting is displayed in New York in MoMA protest against Trump’s travel ban
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FeaturesStrategic advances?
The government’s modern industrial strategy has been welcomed by business groups but are there opportunities for construction to benefit?
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FeaturesA question of priorities
The government’s flagship programme to regenerate the schools estate has just seen the start of its second phase. Ike Ijeh assesses what the Priority School Building Programme has offered pupils and the construction industry so far
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Education
There’s lots to learn this week about the new products for schools and universities, from hard landscaping for a primary school to Portakabin modules and floor screed
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FeaturesLead times: October - December 2016
Lead times have changed for only two packages - the lowest level of change recorded in the last decade. But many packages are reporting difficulty in getting qualified or experienced staff, reports Brian Moone of Mace
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FeaturesCPD 1 2017: Living walls
A living wall incorporates vegetation into facades or other internal or external walls. This CPD, sponsored by ANS Global, will examine the benefits and the key design considerations
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FeaturesImage of the week: Magic lanterns
Tourists visit the 38th Baotu Spring Lantern Festival to celebrate the Chinese new year
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FeaturesHell or high water
The North-west may have been spared flooding so far this winter, but the occurence and severity of the region’s floods is steadily increasing
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Hotel design
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Ewen Miller, managing director at Calderpeel Architects
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FeaturesNew prisons: Not much in the swag bag
Converting old prisons into housing to fund new prisons in less expensive locations isn’t going according to script
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FeaturesTracker: December 2016
In the final month of last year there was growth in the total activity index due to improvements in the non-residential and the civil engineering sectors
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Private villa
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Scott Boote, an associate at Webb Yates Engineers
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FeaturesImage of the week: Higher authority
Campaigner Gina Miller speaks outside the Supreme Court, after Britain’s most senior judges ruled Theresa May cannot trigger the Brexit process without consulting parliament
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FeaturesRedressing the balance: Women engineers
With just 9% of UK engineers women, the sector clearly has a long way to go to achieving a diverse workforce
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FeaturesThis week in 1982
Three-and-a-half decades ago, Building reported that building graduates would not struggle to find employment
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FeaturesMarket review: Contract values fall
Despite the vote to leave the European Union, construction output remained healthy in 2016, but the value of contract awards declined over the year
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FeaturesGreat Arthur House: Colourful character
The grade II-listed Great Arthur House in the City of London urgently needed a new facade that stopped its leaks and improved its thermal performance, but double glazing was too heavy for its structure