More Focus – Page 12
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FeaturesA crisis hiding in plain sight: is the UK’s built environment failing children and young people?
While housing supply and affordability dominate public debate, the prevalence of safe, accessible spaces for children and adolescents is a critical yet overlooked issue. Nora Redmond takes a closer look at whether the built environment is leaving young people underserved
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FeaturesPicking up Carillion’s pieces: how Balfour Beatty finally finished the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital
West Birmingham’s new super hospital has just opened, six years later than planned following the failure of Carillion in 2018. Thomas Lane visits the new building to find out how the team overcame multiple problems, and to see what the finished project is like
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FeaturesProcurement update: data centre development challenges
Data centre clients are scaling up to deliver ever bigger programmes – so, what are the main client types and the specific procurement challenges in this sector?
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Demand is set to rise as the economy stabilises
Demand is set to strengthen as economic stability stimulates a recovery in private sector investment, but contractor capacity is depleted and risk aversion elevated
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FeaturesHighlights from New York’s Climate Week
To coincide with the UN General Assembly last week, more than 2,000 climate advisers, business leaders and politicial figures gathered to find ways to accelerate the path to net zero. Here are some of the themes they discussed at the Climate Group’s conference
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FeaturesNot in my Brick Lane: Truman Brewery’s uphill struggle to win support for development plans
The last time the East End land owner tried to bring change to the iconic London thoroughfare, it was met by fierce resistance. With even more ambitious plans now lodged with the council, what are the odds of them winning the locals over? Alex Funk went to find out
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Features‘The contracting model needs to change’ – Permasteelisa’s boss on why the industry can’t go on like this
Liam Cummins joined the cladding specialist in 2023 after years working for main contractors. He talks to Dave Rogers about unsustainable margins, working for some formidable CEOs and why London is still the place to do business
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FeaturesKey takeaways and talking points from the Labour party conference 2024
Labour members gathered in Liverpool this week for the party’s first conference in government for 15 years. Daniel Gayne and Tom Lowe report
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FeaturesA tale of two mergers: What do the completion of Barratt-Redrow and the collapse of Bellway-Crest Nicholson mean for Labour’s housebuilding plans?
Is the ground-breaking tie-up likely to help or hinder the government’s chances of hitting its sky-high 1.5 million housebuilding target?
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FeaturesKey takeaways from the Building the Future Conference and Housing Today Live
Church House in Westminster yesterday played host to two back-to-back conferences on construction and housing attended by hundreds of professionals from the built environment. Here is a round-up of the key talking points from the event, run by Building and Housing Today.
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FeaturesLondon towers – does it make more sense to build new or renew?
The twin currencies of carbon and cost have encouraged the adaptive reuse of towers, bringing the additional complexity of working within an existing building
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FeaturesHinkley Point C: Building Britain’s first nuclear reactor in 30 years
Like its Finnish and French twins, Hinkley Point C has suffered from cost overuns and delays. What are the team doing to claw back the losses and what does this mean for Sizewell C?
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Features‘Bid for everything, always haggle’: The life and times of John F Hunt’s John Hall
The founder of the specialist contractor turned 75 over the summer. He tells Dave Rogers about nearly going under, having the gift of the gab and why he did well out of the Cardiff Millennium Stadium
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FeaturesTop 150 Consultants 2024: The main table
Full sortable data from Building’s ranking of the top 150 consultants in the UK
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Features‘We will deliver a generational shift’… Why the Grenfell Inquiry report means another building safety shake-up
Keir Starmer wants his government’s response to the tragedy to mark a defining moment in the safety and quality of housing in the UK. Is the industry prepared for it?
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FeaturesTop 150 Consultants 2024: Where do you stand on hybrid working?
Our survey shows nine in 10 consultants in construction now offer hybrid working, but what models are being adopted? Carl Brown finds out
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Features‘If you’re not adding value, what’s the point?’- Ridge & Partners’ Adrian O’Hickey on the firm’s multidisciplinary approach
Ridge & Partners is one of the fastest-growing large firms in Building’s Top 150 Consultants list out this Friday. Senior partner Adrian O’Hickey explains more about the firm’s plans
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FeaturesImmigration: How the system can be reformed
In an in-depth report published by the Building the Future Think Tank this week, we look at how Brexit has changed the way we recruit foreign workers – and the implications of that decision. Read the final part of our analysis today
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FeaturesImmigration: Why the new system isn’t working
In an in-depth report published by the Building the Future Think Tank this week, we look at how Brexit has changed the way we recruit foreign workers – and the implications of that decision. Read the fourth part of our analysis today
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FeaturesImmigration: What happened when freedom of movement came to an end
In an in-depth report published by the Building the Future Think Tank this week, we look at how Brexit has changed the way we recruit foreign workers – and the implications of that decision. Read the third part of our analysis today