More Focus – Page 13
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FeaturesHas the National Portrait Gallery refurbishment been a success?
Britain’s most establishment art gallery has reinvented itself as a palace of inclusion. Tom Lowe looks at whether the project, designed by Jamie Fobert Architects and Purcell, has worked.
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FeaturesBuilding the Future Commission: review of June
A quick guide to the Building the Future Commission’s activity over the past month
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FeaturesLord Kerslake: our 2008 interview with Britain’s busiest man
We are republishing this interview after the news of Bob Kerslake’s death. The interview took place as he was taking the helm of the Homes and Communities Agency in 2008.
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Features‘I came back from maternity leave and didn’t have a desk’ How one CEO is using her experiences to help others
The boss of M&E consultant FHP believes opportunities for women are, finally, looking up – just don’t make them wear a pink hard hat
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FeaturesSeven key takeaways from this year’s CIH conference
With new social housing regulations and a gloomy economic outlook, attendees at the Chartered Institute of Housing’s annual conference were not short of things to talk about. Daniel Gayne and Carl Brown report on the hot topics in Manchester this week
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FeaturesCould stamp duty reform be the answer to making UK homes net zero?
With carbon emissions from homes going up and little incentive for existing homeowners to make energy efficiency renovations, we talk to policymakers and industry about a proposed solution
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FeaturesThe life and death story behind construction’s would-be AI revolutionary
ALICE technologies boss René Morkos talks about his background in engineering, living in war-torn Lebanon and post-invasion Afghanistan and his AI ambitions
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Features‘Sometimes you pinch yourself.’ The boy from the Chester semi running €4bn Arcadis
Alan Brookes tells Dave Rogers more consolidation in the sector is inevitable, why we should just get on and build HS2 and singing for his supper
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FeaturesTime for ministers to enforce boardroom diversity? Meet Lara Oyedele
Have we reached the point where diversity needs to be enforced through regulation? The CIH president thinks so
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FeaturesThey used to call me ‘sir’ on site: Buro Happold’s Sarah Prichard on her journey to the top
For International Women in Engineering Day, one of the sector’s only female MDs talks about tossing coins, working in the Middle East and where the sector goes from here
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FeaturesAre platforms and procurement the answer to MMC adoption?
In the second of our two-part feature on how modern methods of construction could improve efficiency, Thomas Lane looks at how systems and processes can help drive change
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FeaturesEverything you wanted to know about MMC but were afraid to ask
Are modern methods of construction the holy grail of construction efficiency or a technology destined to fail?
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FeaturesRebooting the New Hospital Programme: Is this the solution to the NHS backlog?
The government has unveiled a £20bn programme to save England’s NHS estate. Here’s how it will work
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FeaturesCost model: A guide to life sciences lab fit-out
Life science labs are in high demand. Identifying the right spaces to nurture innovation – and fitting them out flexibly and sustainably – offers opportunities
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Features‘The design team has gone from 500 to six.’ What HS2 Euston is doing now
What happens when you are told that the job you have been working on is put on hold? Dave Rogers went to find out
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FeaturesSandbach saga: meet the housebuilder standing up to Michael Gove
In the latest example of the housing secretary intervening in planning on design grounds, we talk to Colin Muller of Muller Property Group, about the Sandbach development in Cheshire East which has been called in
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FeaturesKey takeaways from the BCO’s conference in Dublin
Developers, architects and occupiers gathered in Dublin last week to discuss the prospects for office building in a time of high inflation and low occupancy
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FeaturesCost comparison: Pros and cons of volumetric construction in housing
Pros and cons of volumetric construction, the barriers to widespread adoption, and a cost comparison between a traditional and modular residential tower
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FeaturesStepping back: the story of 8 Bishopsgate
Like its neighbour the Cheesegrater, the latest addition to the City skyline – Wilkinson Eyre’s 8 Bishopsgate – had to avoid impinging on views of St Paul’s
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FeaturesCan architects restore faith in their technical expertise?
With major changes to architectural education under way, the Building the Future Commission speaks to professionals from across property, architecture and education about the potential for a reinvigorated profession