All Features articles – Page 197
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards 2015: Winners
This year’s Housing Design Awards show that the sector’s return to strength has brought with it bold and experimental design, with council housing and housing for older people in particular taking some unexpected forms
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FeaturesCPD 13 2015: Introduction to sanitary pipework design
The latest module in our CPD series examines the regulations, standards, materials and other key factors to consider when designing pipework layouts. This module is sponsored by Marley Plumbing Drainage
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FeaturesWho’s running Balfour Beatty?
New Balfour Beatty chief executive Leo Quinn has wasted no time making his mark on the contracting giant. But so far his actions haven’t managed to stem the flow of senior figures departing the troubled firm
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FeaturesInfrastructure: Offshore wind
Reduced costs and the ability to attract finance are critical to the viability of the UK wind industry, and with the government recently withdrawing onshore subsidies, the focus on offshore has never been greater
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FeaturesSketch of the week: LFA drawing competition
This week’s sketch is by City Academy Hackney student Daryell Scott
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FeaturesThis week in 1981
Potential university grant cuts could have a big impact on architecture courses
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FeaturesImage of the week: Remembering a darker day
The July 7 memorial 10 years on from the 7/7 bombings
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FeaturesCPD 12 2015: Acoustic design and flat roofs
The latest module in our CPD series provides guidance on the key acoustic considerations when designing or specifying a flat roof. This module is sponsored by ROCKWOOL
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FeaturesDavies report: Will it fly?
Howard Davies’ Airports Commission has come down emphatically in favour of a third runway at Heathrow, but the politics are so fraught and planning issues so labyrinthine that a final decision still looks a long way off
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FeaturesCrossrail: Service update
As Crossrail celebrates a trio of significant milestones, Ike Ijeh takes a look at the current state of play
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FeaturesCPD 11 2015: Cyber security for intelligent BMSs
Networked building management systems bring many benefits but can expose organisations to cyber security breaches. This module, sponsored by Schneider Electric, examines the key ways to guard against attack
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Roofing
Green roofs, clay roofs and even BIM-ready roofs. Whatever you’ve currently got in mind for roofing solutions, these manufacturers can top it
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FeaturesBAR yachting HQ: At the rate of knots
Ben Ainslie Racing’s Portsmouth HQ embodies the bold spirit of the yacht teams it will house
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Cross of Christ Church
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Mariusz Wroblewski, senior architect at Chapman Taylor
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FeaturesRetrofit: Low expectations
David Blackman looks at the vanishing chances of making green retrofit a national infrastructure priority
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FeaturesImage of the week: The pop-up city
For the weekend Worthy Farm in Somerset becomes a city approximately the same size as Oxford
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FeaturesBudget preview: Ace up Osborne's sleeve?
Freed from the shackles of coalition government, chancellor George Osborne will be outlining some quite different policies and priorities when he presents his emergency Budget next week
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FeaturesBuilding intelligence: Q1 2015
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that total construction output hit its highest year-on-year level since 2008. Experian Economics reports
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FeaturesTracker: May 2015
The construction activity index picked up again following a fallow April, while the number of respondents posting no construction activity constraints reached an all-time high