All Market features articles – Page 5
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FeaturesWhere will the UK be in 2030?
In the week of the publication of Global Construction 2030, Building was given exclusive access to the report’s findings, and the answers are not necessarily what you’d expect
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FeaturesCommercial developments: Playing catch-up
Office construction is at its highest point since the credit crunch. So why aren’t the main players full of confidence for the future?
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FeaturesMarket forecast: A change of mood
With demand outstripping supply, selectivity was the dominant theme for contractors this year. And a failure to attract tenderers led to more creative approaches to procurement. But will these changes be lasting or is this just the current stage of a cyclical process?
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FeaturesHousing: Home delivery
While politicians wrangle over the number of homes they propose to build, housing stock is falling woefully behind the UK’s needs
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FeaturesInfrastructure: Hitting home
In the first of a series of articles leading up to the Building Live conference, Joey Gardiner reports on the opportunities in infrastructure
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FeaturesDavies report: Will it fly?
Howard Davies’ Airports Commission has come down emphatically in favour of a third runway at Heathrow, but the politics are so fraught and planning issues so labyrinthine that a final decision still looks a long way off
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FeaturesBudget preview: Ace up Osborne's sleeve?
Freed from the shackles of coalition government, chancellor George Osborne will be outlining some quite different policies and priorities when he presents his emergency Budget next week
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FeaturesForesight saga
QSs are supposed to price a job accurately and de-risk procurement. But some clients are wondering what they’re paying them for
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FeaturesThe centre cannot hold
Our Inside Westminster series continues with a look at the government’s plans to devolve powers to mayor-led cities and regions
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FeaturesSchools: Where are they all going to sit?
25% more new school places will be needed in the next five years than the previous five, yet the government is cutting overall capital funding by 16%
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FeaturesIt’s time to fix the housing crisis
With a dire shortage of homes in the country, what has the government got to do to get housing working again?
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FeaturesInside Westminster: Bringing the house down
Costs are being estimated for the critical repair job needed to the Houses of Parliament - with some suggesting the Palace of Westminster has just 20 years before it’s unusable
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FeaturesInside Westminster: Housing by numbers
In this election’s battle of the building stats, a major focus has been that worryingly few houses have been built in the last five years. But is this the coalition’s fault? Could other parties do better?
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FeaturesThe Farrell Review: Into the long grass?
One year on from the publication of Terry Farrell’s review of architecture and the built environment, it’s time to see whether the government is prepared to support good design - or whether it will favour continued procrastination
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FeaturesInside Westminster: One for the road
Continuing our series looking at construction from inside the corridors of power in the run-up to the election, Mark Leftly asks if the coalition’s track record on infrastructure is anything to celebrate
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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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FeaturesInside Westminster: The Inner Circle
We consider the role of the chief construction adviser, and identify the key Whitehall construction power brokers
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FeaturesThe Russian dilemma
The Ukraine crisis has brought uncertainty to what should be a flourishing Russian market, but there are still good reasons for doing business there
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FeaturesA client's view: Argent
Argent’s Tony Giddings on the developer’s near £1bn pipeline of work and its belief in partnering
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FeaturesA client's view: Stanhope
Stanhope’s head of development management on selecting contractors and the London market