All Features articles – Page 23
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Top 50 Contractors 2022: the table
Full sortable data from Building’s ranking of the top 50 contractors in the UK
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Top 20 Facilities Management & Services Firms 2022: the table
The fully sortable data has been taken from Building’s ranking of the top 20 facilities management & services firms in the UK
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Top 150 Contractors and Housebuilders 2022: full table
Full sortable data from Building’s ranking of the top 150 contractors and housebuilders in the UK
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How to retrofit a historical building: the challenge and solutions
Permission must be sought and appropriate materials used in order to thermally upgrade traditional buildings. Thomas Lane looks at the issues involved
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To refurb or rebuild? Join the great M&S Oxford Street store debate
Henrietta Billings and Fred Pilbrow put the case for and against plans to build a new flagship store for Marks & Spencer on Oxford Street
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Infrastructure update: Can investment in energy security be compatible with net zero?
The war in Ukraine has highlighted the importance of energy security. But how does investment in greater resilience align with progress towards net zero?
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Bankside Yards: A new net zero model for London?
Native Land’s scheme will be the UK’s first major mixed-use net zero development thanks to an ambient heat network. Thomas Lane reports
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5 minutes with … Lauren Bailey at Ridge
The firm’s head of social value is proud to have helped change people’s lives for the better. She is also a jazz-loving saxophonist
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Meet the UK materials start-up chasing the Prince of Wales’s million-pound prize
Ahead of the Earthshot Prize 2022 ceremony tonight, we spoke to Dr Natasha Boulding, co-founder of Low Carbon Materials, about her firm’s plans to green the building materials sector
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CPD 14 2022: Incorporating biophilia and biodiversity
This CPD sponsored by TG Escapes Modular Eco-Buildings explains the issues around biodiversity and how buildings can help restore an environmental balance by including biophilic features. Deadline for completion Friday 13 January 2023.
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Cost of living guide: How firms are helping their staff
As inflation soars, many construction companies and housebuilders are looking at how they can support their staff with extra pay, support or other benefits. Here is a guide to what individual firms are doing
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Why everyone’s getting excited about the new energy efficiency taskforce
Jeremy Hunt has announced plans to set up a team to drive a programme of energy efficiency improvements to the UK’s buildings, with an ambitious new target. After a series of past blunders, could it actually work this time?
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Glencar’s founders on boxing clever and why warehouses can be beautiful
Eddie McGillycuddy and Chris Gleave tell Dave Rogers how the firm they set up six years ago is branching out and why clients now want ‘sheds’ to look pretty
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5 minutes with … Chetan Parmar at Parmarbrook
The founding partner of the civil and structural engineering studio reflects on his journey through more than 30 years in the industry
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Help to Buy: It’s the end of an era
The final applications have been submitted and the government’s equity loan scheme in England is due to wind up on 31 March next year. Emily Twinch considers what impact this will have on housebuilders.
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MMC and the Future Homes Standard
Industry experts discussed how modern methods of construction can help the industry achieve the Future Homes Standard, at a rountable hosted by Building and Rockwool
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Why we need a long-term approach to net zero
By thinking fabric first we can make strong inroads towards net zero writes Paul Barrett, head of product management, ROCKWOOL UK
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Greener buildings: To retrofit or to demolish?
MESH Construction Consultancy’s Zoe Curnow and frequent collaborator Richard Woods, of Urban Fabric Architects, discuss alternative approaches to business as usual
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Innovation as a pathway to growth
How Milestone Infrastructure uses Procore’s data solutions to streamline its highways operations while growing its business
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Sunny side up: why the future for solar power looks bright
With energy prices going through the roof and demand for electricity from data centres and electric vehicles soaring, the case for solar power has never been stronger