All Features articles – Page 239
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FeaturesBuilding & Ecobuild Tweet-up
Come and meet like-minded built environment professionals as well as the Building and Ecobuild teams this October
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FeaturesShould the government get rid of the Code for sustainable homes?
In his blog, Good riddance to the Code for sustainable homes, Neil May, managing director of Natural Building Technologies, wrote: The world-leading, growth-fuelling, planet-saving, highly innovative sustainability programme for new build, launched by the last government as the Code for Sustainable Homes, was a disaster. Click here to read ...
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FeaturesThe timber trail
As the EU cracks down on illegally harvested timber, what are the industry’s responsibilities?
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FeaturesLatest products to meet regulations
Whether it’s glazed partitioning, fire-resistant safety glass, or just plain old cladding, we look at some of the latest recommended options to help your project meet regulations
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FeaturesInterview: Mark Reynolds, Mace
Mace’s new chief executive on how he plans to double the firm’s turnover by 2020
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FeaturesGlobal Infrastructure: Light rail
Key issues and benchmark costs of the rapidly growing light railway market
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FeaturesThe Iceberg, Denmark: Jagged edge
The Iceberg - a residential scheme that owes its dramatic profile to the unceasing Scandinavian quest for light
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FeaturesA clash of housing policies?
Just when it looked as if an institutionally funded private rented sector was about to take off, a resurgent market in new homes may be about to snuff it out again
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FeaturesPaul Lewis, Stanhope
Stanhope’s development manager on how the company is stepping outside its comfort zone
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FeaturesPolitics and infrastructure
As the party conference season kicks off, Building looks at what the political parties are saying on the key areas for construction
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FeaturesThe Cheesegrater: One for heavy metal fans
How the 224m-tall Leadenhall Building was constructed in the City without disrupting the neighbours
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FeaturesThe wasted recession
Recovery may now be on the cards, but did we learn enough from the recession?
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FeaturesProcurement update: Project controls
Clients are dusting off their investment plans, but scarce resources mean that assurance of planned outcomes will be vital. Here’s how project controls can help to give that assurance
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FeaturesAre free schools too cheap by half?
Michael Gove may want free schools to succeed but his department won’t be throwing much money their way. So are these cut-price schools up to the job or doomed to become places for kids to fail in?
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FeaturesSchool buildings: Do the math
The DfE has so far failed to hit its construction cost cutting targets, why?
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FeaturesSt Paul's School, London: Best days of its life
Architectural standards were slipping at the 500-year-old St Paul’s School in London, but the elegant exposed interiors and concrete colonnades of Nicholas Hare’s new science building augur well for the future
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FeaturesInterview: Mark Swindlehurst
The chair of the Association of University Directors of Estates talks to Building about opportunities in the universities sector
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FeaturesModular assembly forest school
Lime Tree Primary School, a modular assembly forest school in Greater Manchester, has a sensitive design concept from standardised elements
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FeaturesTracker: July 2013
Activity has dipped slightly since the five-year high last month, but orders are looking healthy and there is also positive news for employment for the first time since 2007, as Experian Economics reports