All Features articles – Page 203
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FeaturesBuilding Award Winners: Construction Consultant/Surveyor of the Year (fewer than 100 staff)
A broad portfolio of major projects, bumper financial results and a commitment to staff training and development have given Core Five the entrepreneurial clout to take the top prize
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FeaturesBuilding Award Winners: Construction Consultant/Surveyor of the Year (100 staff or over)
Any firm that can help deliver a €1bn stimulus to Greece’s economy deserves an accolade, but Faithful+Gould bags our top prize for the pure scale of its ambition - including a push into commercial property
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FeaturesBuilding Award Winners: Woman of the Year
Building’s Woman of the Year award is a new award designed to recognise and promote the achievements of women working in construction. Seven inspirational women were shortlisted but one of them had the edge
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FeaturesNatalie Bennett’s letter to the construction industry
Leader of the Green party responds to Building’s manifesto aims
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Thames skyline
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Amy Jones, an architect who works for Probyn Miers
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FeaturesImage of the week: 'Say what…?'
Prime minister David Cameron (right) talks to an apprentice during a visit to a construction site in Leeds
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FeaturesRight to buy: Betting the house
Joey Gardiner scrutinises the Tories’ plans to extend right to buy to housing associations
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FeaturesFloating voters: Five years on
Building catches up with a group of senior floating voters from the construction industry to ask them what they learnt from the last election
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FeaturesEd Miliband’s letter to the construction industry
Leader of the Labour party responds to Building’s manifesto aims
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FeaturesNick Clegg’s letter to the construction industry
Leader of the Liberal Democrats responds to Building’s manifesto aims
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FeaturesMarket review: Steady progress
Construction activity increased in March against a backdrop of wider economic stability, with low inflation, low unemployment and forecasts for moderate growth. Michael Dall goes through the highlights of Barbour ABI’s monthly Economic Construction Market Review
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FeaturesWater usage: To the last drop
With every person in the UK using an average of 150 litres of water per day, the country’s water usage needs tempering. Ike Ijeh investigates the domestic inventions that could prevent us from running dry
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FeaturesA diverse approach
Despite an impending skills shortage, the number of women and workers from ethnic minority backgrounds in construction is woefully low. Joey Gardiner asks three employers what their companies are doing to increase workforce diversity
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Water
This week’s water-based products include a limescale-reducing electrical shower, brass tap designs for The Ampersand hotel in London, and cast aluminium rainwater systems for two luxury Hertfordshire homes
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FeaturesImage of the week: Playing to a home crowd
Prime minister David Cameron visits London building site earlier this week after Conservatives propose extending the right to buy
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Astana storyboard
This week’s sketch is by Mike Oades, director with Atomik Architecture
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FeaturesThis week in 1997
The Nottingham Centre for Industrial and Medical Informatics has one of the first 3D CAD systems in the country
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FeaturesBIM survey results: Levelling off?
The government is backing it. Firms are paying top dollar for people that can do it. So why does the number of firms using building information modelling actually seem to be falling?
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FeaturesBIM: Power up for Level 3
The strategy document for BIM Level 3 - Digital Built Britain - is big on aspiration but comes up a little short on the details