All Features articles – Page 3
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FeaturesUnlocking housing delivery, inclusive places and infrastructure integration
At a roundtable hosted by Housing Today at UKREiiF in Leeds, sector experts gathered to discuss solutions to regeneration roadblocks
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FeaturesOlympia reborn: How London’s historic exhibition venue has been revitalised for the modern age
The £1.3bn transformation of the historic venue in west London has added entertainment, hospitality and workspace to an already congested site. Thomas Lane visits one of the capital’s most complex construction projects
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FeaturesWhat would prime minister Burnham look like for the built environment?
The new MP for Makerfield still has a way to go if he wants to take Keir Starmer’s job. But with his ascent to Number 10 looking more likely by the day, Daniel Gayne breaks down what his policy agenda might look like for housing, infrastructure and skills
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Features5 minutes with … Simon Saint at Woods Bagot
The firm’s principal on developing young talent, avoiding the race to the bottom, the trouble with procrastination and his favourite T-shirt
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FeaturesRegen Connect interactive funding and development maps
As part of Regen Connect, Building is monitoring regeneration announcements across the UK as they happen. Use our interactive maps of the UK and London to track the activity
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FeaturesCost model: Delivering neighbourhood health centres
Plans for 250 new neighbourhood health centres across England have been announced. Their design must be deeply efficient, net zero from the outset and carefully costed
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Features‘We will build the crème de la crème’… Inside £10bn Czech giant Penta’s ambitious launch in London
Building flies to Prague to speak to Marek Dospiva, co-founder of one of central Europe’s biggest companies, and to hear about the firm’s plans to become a major developer in the UK capital
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Features5 minutes with … Ken Graham at Burdens
The firm’s national sales director on fine margins, being patient, his dislike of modern glass towers and his wife’s ’unbelievable’ meat pies
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FeaturesBuilding study: The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
Ben Flatman explores a sensitive reworking of Clerkenwell’s New River Head, where Tim Ronalds Architects weave galleries, education spaces and a cafe into a historic site shaped by four centuries of change
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Weaker demand helps constrain cost inflation
Building costs are set to rise through 2026 with inflation into 2027, due to global energy shocks, but subdued demand is offsetting inflation
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FeaturesMaking Senze: How sophisticated energy monitoring can cut social housing retrofit costs by 75%
Technology firm Senze has shown live home monitoring can cut retrofit costs by targeting improvements more accurately than flawed EPC assessments, raising questions over the government’s fabric-first funding model for social housing decarbonisation, Thomas Lane reports
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FeaturesThe unlikely return of the back-to-back: how the viability crunch is leading to experimentation with older forms
As housing numbers crash, developers are seeking ways to reimagine projects, with a range of new – and old – forms being tried to move projects forward
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Features‘Don’t let inertia win.’ Key talking points from UKREiiF 2026
Nearly 17,000 people from the built environment, finance and local government trekked to a rainy and overcast Leeds for the annual real estate investment event this week. Here we round up the key takeaways
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FeaturesWhat could a pedestrianised Oxford Street look like?
For well over half a century there have been proposals to reduce traffic on Europe’s busiest street and transform it into a more pedestrian-friendly area. Tom Lowe meets the team finally taking those plans towards fruition
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Features‘They were hard blows to take, it created a siege mentality…’ Bovis boss David Cadiot on that sale, losing jobs and how the firm has bounced back
One year after being bought by Atlas Holdings, the contractor’s chief executive tells Dave Rogers what is coming next
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Features5 minutes with … Ryan Mee at Eco2Solar
The firm’s CEO on helping to grow the company over 16 years, the misconceptions about solar energy use in the UK, rising to many challenges while on the ‘solarcoaster’ and how surfing helps to recharge his batteries
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FeaturesInfrastructure update: The influence of private finance on delivery mechanisms
Renewed interest in PPP for government-funded projects highlights the critical role that private capital plays in the creation and operation of the UK’s infrastructure
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FeaturesSustainability: How lifecycle costs vary by sector and scale
The cost of maintaining and replacing assets is a growing priority for building owners, but how do sector and building scale influence those costs?
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FeaturesHousing Today and G15 State of the Capital 2026 report
Building’s sister title publishes its second annual research report looking into ways of boosting affordable housing in London, in partnership with the G15
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FeaturesReinvention 2026: can built environment education keep up with a changing industry?
Is it time to rethink built environment training? How might a more accessible, collaborative and work-based model look?