All Features articles – Page 169
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FeaturesCRASH honours its Patrons at Annual Reception and Above and Beyond Awards
CRASH honoured its patrons’ unwavering generosity and loyalty at their Annual Reception and Above and Beyond Awards on Thursday 29 September
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FeaturesImage of the week: The queen’s steps
A workman walks up the ‘Tulip Stairs’ at the Queen’s House, part of the Royal Museums Greenwich
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FeaturesWhat if Trump does win?
The very idea of ‘President Trump’ has gone from the realms of jokes and nightmares to potential reality. So as the world holds its breath for the result of November’s US election, David Blackman considers how a Trump presidency would affect UK firms
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FeaturesTrump's project highlights
Building takes a look at four of the highlights of Donald Trump’s career in property development
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FeaturesThe disgruntled architect and the Clinton v Trump debate
Hilary Clinton has highlighted the complaints of an architect who used to work for Trump
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FeaturesThis week in 1996
The need for more housing within the UK appeared to mirror the current housing crisis
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FeaturesConstruction Rocks: New Bands night
New bands and a new judge at the first night of this year’s Construction Rocks fundraiser
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FeaturesState of play: London
Sadiq Khan has proved himself a pragmatist - a quality he’ll need to address the capital’s major built environment challenges
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FeaturesBuilding intelligence: Q2 2016
Total construction output grew more than previously thought in 2015, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics
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FeaturesNew Science Building: Unsolved mysteries
Laboratories are most often architecturally dull affairs but not Sheppard Robson’s New Science Building
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FeaturesCPD 17 2016: Rooflights and Part K
Part K provides essential guidance for specifiers of access rooflights, ensuring that roofs and terraces are safe to use and maintain. This CPD, sponsored by Glazing Vision, sets out the key requirements to bear in mind
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Healthcare
This week Alder Hey Children’s Hospital gets lots of natural light, dementia patients at Woodlands in Rotherham get murals to serve as memory joggers, and a health centre in Llangollen gets stone walls that blend in with its surroundings
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FeaturesTracker: August 2016
The construction activity index for August suggests that we are returning to normality after June’s EU referendum shock
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FeaturesImage of the week: A lengthy repair job
A section of the Great Wall in China, which has controversially been ‘repaired’
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Florence
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by illustrator Paul Mitchell
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FeaturesBuilding a bridge across the Mersey
Constructing a six-lane road link across the River Mersey involved several challenges
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FeaturesThis week in 1991
A delegation led by Reading University went to Moscow to teach Soviet builders the way of the West
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FeaturesColombia: Back in Bogotá
As a historic peace deal between the Colombian government and rebel group Farc is signed, Building returns to Bogotá
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FeaturesSustainability: The housing ‘trilemma’
How can the UK deliver the volume of new homes required without sacrificing wellbeing or environmental performance?