All Features articles – Page 211
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FeaturesJingle bell blocks
Take five teams of construction professionals, stick them in a roomful of Lego, get them to carry out three slightly offbeat tasks, and award them bonus points for good ideas on where to stick Santa… yes, folks, it can only be Building’s 2014 Christmas challenge
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FeaturesReview of 2014: Fairy tale endings
Continuing our look back at the year gone by, here’s a selection of some of the biggest positive news
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FeaturesReview of 2014: Grimm Tales
Our annual review of construction dwells, for a moment, on the sector’s most depressing stories
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FeaturesProjects 2014 review: part 3
Building takes a look back at the completed projects that impressed in 2014
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FeaturesProjects 2014 review: part 2
Two more completed projects that impressed in 2014 - the British Museum and Heathrow’s T2
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FeaturesProjects 2014 review: part 1
Building takes a look back at the completed projects that impressed in 2014
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FeaturesMarket review: A slight dip
The value of construction contracts awarded in the UK dropped to £5.8bn in November, with residential accounting for the highest proportion of contracts awarded by value. Here are highlights of Barbour ABI’s latest monthly Economic Construction Market Review
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FeaturesCalling time on the coalition
From the Green Deal to Crossrail, the government made a number of pledges back in 2010 to keep the industry afloat during the grim five years ahead. But how well has it stuck to them?
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FeaturesFrom the archives: 2010
Building analyses what the new coalition government could mean for the sector
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FeaturesImage of the week: Concrete Arteries
CIOB’s Art of Building competition entry shows the construction of a new metro line in Amsterdam, Holland
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FeaturesInterview: Paul King
Outgoing head of the UK Green Building Council Paul King sees an industry in large part willing to deliver the government’s green agenda. Unfortunately, the government itself has so badly undermined its own policies, the sector is no longer sure what that agenda is any more
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Housing
The housing products in this issue’s Specifier include timber windows and doors, plant support systems for roofs, and external wall insulation. Plus there’s info on CPD, training viedeos and guides to Part L
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FeaturesInfrastructure: The water industry
With a challenging regulatory settlement due out this month, water companies are in the final stages of preparing for big changes in their markets. Simon Bimpson and Simon Rawlinson of EC Harris examine how these changes will affect project investment and delivery
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FeaturesSlackwood Farmhouse: Ahead of the curve
Adjoining a 17th-century Lancastrian farmhouse, Paul Archer Design’s curved-glass pavilion is both strikingly modern and a discreet addition to the landscape