Tom Lowe
Tom Lowe is the senior reporter at Building Design and Building.
Areas of focus include politics and how trends in Westminster affect the industry, how buildings are built and what materials go into making them.
He also leads the titles' Grenfell Inquiry coverage and follows the latest developments in the industry's progress towards net zero.
Contact info
- Tel:
- 020 3011 3133
- Email:
- thomas.lowe@assemblemediagroup.co.uk
- News
Potential saviour did not have enough money to buy ISG, administrator says, as 2,000 jobs lost in collapse
EY says buyer could not demonstrate they had funding despite “repeated requests” to do so
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ISG staff vent frustration at firm’s collapse after weeks of uncertainty
Calls for industry-wide reform to prevent further administrations as supply chain braces for impact of £2.2bn firm’s administration
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T&T urges firms to remain ‘vigilant to risk’ as confidence grows
New orders growing at one of the fastest rates in a decade but output shrinks
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Days of demolish and rebuild ‘long gone’, Bam chief tells conference
Chief operating officer John Wilkinson says retaining existing structure is the right thing to do
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Hawkins Brown plans for £100m Cambridge research campus set for approval
Scheme to include nine buildings up to eight storeys in height
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Developers submit planning application for huge £6bn Earl’s Court overhaul
Architects working on the plans include Maccreanor Lavington, Sheppard Robson, dRMM and Serie
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Revised 1 Undershaft plans to be submitted in coming weeks but controversial viewing platform to stay
Changes relate almost entirely to street level public realm after plans were criticsed for “robbing” City of open space
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Arb seeking feedback on proposed post-Grenfell code of conduct
Consultation on six new professional standards to run for next three months
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Developer appoints new project team on stalled 24-storey Camden tower
Lead architect Cartwright Pickard replaces Grid Architects under plans to boost number of homes by nearly 30%
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National Infrastructure Commission ‘not taken seriously’ by previous government, Labour says
Chief secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones said Conservatives were “not really listening” to the NIC
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New Hospital Programme could be built over a ‘longer time frame’, government says
Warning comes as landmark report finds £37bn capital funding shortfall for hospitals during last decade
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Brookfield submits plans for 54-storey City office tower
Developer’s proposals for RSHP-designed 99 Bishopsgate set to be among the largest office towers in the Square Mile
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High Court refuses full judicial review of decision to approve Bloomsbury tower
Campaigners to appeal decision after judge finds outcome would be the same regardless of claimed planning policy breach
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Construction output fell in July, according to official figures
Downturn in new work and repair and maintenance led to 0.4% slump, ONS says
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City approves AHMM’s Barbican-inspired retrofit scheme
Office next to Barbican estate to be transformed into 174 co-living homes
- 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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Green light to expand Oxfordshire science park
Scheme at Begbroke will include 1,800 homes, new office space and three schools
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John Lewis Partnership submits plans for 215-home Reading scheme
Carey Jones Chapman Tolcher working on £80m proposals on site of former distribution centre
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Product manufacturers come out fighting after Grenfell Inquiry’s damning verdict
Arconic, Celotex and Kingspan defend their involvement in 2017 disaster after final report brands them “dishonest”
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Grenfell Inquiry final report to be published at 11am today
Survivors and the bereaved to hear inquiry’s long-awaited findings on the causes of the fire that killed 72 people seven years ago