More Focus – Page 11
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FeaturesWhat we know so far about the New Hospital Programme relaunch
Contract notice for delivery partner to oversee ‘fundamental shift’ in healthcare schemes to be posted by September
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FeaturesTackling short termism: we hear from the Building the Future Commissioners
Building gathers a group of Building the Future commissioners together for the first time to take soundings on ideas to improve the built environment
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FeaturesUKREIIF round-up: Councils announce new investments as industry vents frustration with government
The UK’s big new real estate event returned to Leeds for its second outing this year. Daniel Gayne was there to talk to government and industry about trends in development, the year ahead in politics and the future of UKREIIF itself
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FeaturesIs AI coming for your job?
In the fourth part of our series on AI in construction, Thomas Lane asks if AI is a silver bullet to address industry inefficiencies and skills shortages
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FeaturesWay to go – still scratching the surface of AI
Continuing our series looking at artificial intelligence in construction, Thomas Lane asks how machine learning might evolve to benefit the industry
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FeaturesMargins of error – how to work with an AI system that is not always right
In the second part of our series looking at AI in construction, Thomas Lane examines the downsides of artificial intelligence
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FeaturesWhat does artificial intelligence mean for construction?
This is AI Week and to kick off a four-part series we look at firms developing their own machine learning tools
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Features‘Try it, learn, and try again’: the sandpit projects trialling ways to build faster and better
Balfour Beatty and RLB have been part of a team working on some disruptive ideas to make construction more efficient. Has it caught the attention of government clients?
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FeaturesDesign codes are coming but will they deliver?
Last week Berkeley Homes went to war with Michael Gove over the design quality of a scheme in Kent, but compulsory local design codes are meant to help avoid such conflict. Will they work?
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Features‘The day I convince myself I know everything is the day I go’: an interview with Bam’s John Wilkinson
The firm’s well-travelled COO on margins, a changing industry and the Iron (Scunthorpe United to you and me)
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Features‘We’re the victims of short-term policy-making’: Interview with Jennie Daly
The chief executive of Taylor Wimpey thinks a national housing strategy is needed. Jennie Daly tells Joey Gardiner why housebuilders need to ‘repair’ their reputation
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FeaturesBuilding the Future Commission: review of April
Our latest monthly round-up of activity from the Building the Future Commission, and what’s in store next
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FeaturesMeet the Korols: How one Ukrainian family found refuge in the UK construction sector
For more than two decades, Larisa and Vadim Korol lived a fairly ordinary life together in Odessa. Then war came and brought them to the UK and to contractor Murphy
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FeaturesLife under a new owner and why the government should invest in London: Weston Williamson's Chris Williamson
After more than three decades of independence, Weston Williamson + Partners sold a majority stake to engineering giant Egis last year. Co-founder Chris Williamson talks about how things are going
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FeaturesCost model: Universities need to answer tough questions about their priorities
Aecom’s Rory Armstrong and Steven Jenkins explain what’s happening in the tertiary education sector and offer a cost model of a typical building
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FeaturesWhat you need to know about Morrell’s ‘seminal’ review into products testing
A review of construction product testing commissioned by ministers following Grenfell Inquiry evidence has recommended sweeping changes. Here’s a guide to what it all means
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FeaturesLatest trends and prices data dashboard
Your one-stop-shop for all the most recent price changes and trends in the building materials, energy, housing and construction labour markets
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Heading for a fall?
Construction output has been on the up, but can this continue in the face of economic uncertainty? Housebuilding in particular looks set for a fall
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FeaturesPushing forward the green agenda: Introba’s Brian Goldsmith and Doug Kerr
Source: Introba Introba’s new office in Holborn, designed by Dar Group stablemates Perkins + Will
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FeaturesTackling the east of England’s construction skills challenge
The Building the Future Commission kicked off its series of regional roundtables with a trip to Cambridge to talk about skills with construction experts from across the east of England.