All Features articles – Page 206
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FeaturesUKIP: The vocal minority
Control immigration and large areas of British countryside will not need to be destroyed by housebuilding, says UKIP. Nationalist populism at its most simplistic, perhaps, but the party’s anti-development stance is bearing down on politics at a local level
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FeaturesBethlem Hospital: Altered states
Fraser Brown MacKenna’s renovation of Bethlem Hospital’s Museum of the Mind may look from the outside much as it did, but the interior spaces now house art galleries, exhibition spaces and an incomparable archive
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FeaturesGlobal city focus: Hong Kong
How is Hong Kong to maintain its competitive edge with the rise of the emerging Asian cities? Barbra Carlisle of EC Harris, Constance Lau and Tim Robinson of Langdon Seah explore its unique positioning
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FeaturesEcobuild 2015 video: Alastair Campbell
Former Labour party communications director on the government’s track record on green building policy
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FeaturesEcobuild 2015 video: James Wates
Chairman of Wates Group on the merger between the UK Contractors’ Group and the National Specialist Contractors Council
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FeaturesThis week in 2010
It’s worth noting that concern surrounding the lack of new entrants to the industry hasn’t sprung up out of nowhere
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FeaturesSketch of the week: ‘Quiet architecture’
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Rabih Hage, founder of Rabih Hage Architects
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FeaturesBirmingham’s buzz
Not so long ago, the greatest thing about Birmingham was finding a road out of it. But in little more than a decade it has transformed itself into a thriving urban centre that businesses and people are flocking to be part of
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FeaturesApprentices in construction: One step forward…
For construction to exploit the economic recovery, it will need about 30,000 new skilled workers each year - that’s about double the number of apprentices the industry is training up
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FeaturesEcobuild 2015 video: Sir John Armitt
Author of the Armitt review on UK infrastructure plans, the energy sector and nuclear build programme
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FeaturesImage of the week: Ecobuild 2015
Visitors including Spud, the Dulux dog, crowd London’s ExCeL conference centre for Ecobuild this week
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FeaturesLincoln Castle: Taking liberties
The £22m restoration of Lincoln Castle involves the painstaking reconstruction of 1,000-year-old walls and the excavation of a Saxon sarcophagus. It also means sticking one of only four copies of the Magna Carta underneath what was once the exercise yard of a Victorian prison
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FeaturesTracker: January 2015
The construction activity index holds steady for the month at 62 points, meanwhile the majority of the regional indices feel an increase in activity
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FeaturesEcobuild 2015 video: Ed Davey
Secretary of state for energy and climate change on what has been achieved in the quest for energy efficiency and what still needs to be done
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FeaturesEcobuild seminar highlights: Look who’s talking
Ecobuild’s seminar and conference programmes will feature more than 400 speakers from industry, government and beyond. Here, some of these experts give a sneak preview of their key messages
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FeaturesPower in the Union
It seems increasingly possible that the UK will vote to leave the EU in 2017. For many sustainability professionals, this would be a nightmare scenario
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Kingston Gala
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Stephen Willmore, associate director at Assael Architecture.
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FeaturesThe Green Frontier
All fields of sustainability will once again be covered at this year’s Ecobuild, from design and construction through to use of innovative materials. Andrew Brister talks to two of the show’s premier partners, Skanska and Lend Lease, about their approaches to the sustainability agenda.
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FeaturesImage of the week: Torch building fire
Hundreds evacuated from Torch skyscraper in Dubai after fire broke out across higher storeys
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FeaturesCost update Q4 2014
Construction output rose 5.5% over 2014, but construction materials and consumer price inflation have both slowed.