All Technical articles – Page 5
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FeaturesWilmcote House: Thermal vision
The flaws of Portsmouth’s Wilmcote House may have been indicative of 1960s social housing, but now its mass adoption of Passivhaus principles could see it used as a model for sustainable retrofit
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FeaturesHeathrow: Growing Pains
As Heathrow’s controversial third runway tries to chart a route through the political turbulence ahead, does it have anything to learn from its expanded international rivals?
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FeaturesGatwick: Ground control
BIM is central to the success of Gatwick airport’s massive £1.2bn capital investment programme
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards 2015: Winners
This year’s Housing Design Awards show that the sector’s return to strength has brought with it bold and experimental design, with council housing and housing for older people in particular taking some unexpected forms
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FeaturesCrossrail: Service update
As Crossrail celebrates a trio of significant milestones, Ike Ijeh takes a look at the current state of play
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FeaturesBAR yachting HQ: At the rate of knots
Ben Ainslie Racing’s Portsmouth HQ embodies the bold spirit of the yacht teams it will house
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FeaturesGraveney School: Shining example
Tooting’s Graveney School teaches architecture to its schoolchildren, invites architects to lecture, and counts architects among its alumni
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FeaturesAction station: Bond street tube station
A cramped site 20m underground, below a busy street is not an easy place to conduct the £320m upgrade of Bond Street tube station. Especially when the only access is via two 9m-wide shafts.
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FeaturesLondon Business School: A perfect match
Sheppard Robson’s partial conversion of the Westminster Register Office complex includes a glazed link building for the entrance
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FeaturesA care in the world
Architype’s £9.6m overhaul of St Michael’s Hospice in Herefordshire is a nuanced balance between residential and institutional functions
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FeaturesFrancis Crick Institute: Larger than life
The awe-inspiring scale, ambition and innovation of the Francis Crick Institute more than matches the pioneering biomedical research that is soon to take place within its walls
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FeaturesEnterprise Centre: A plan is thatched
The £11.6m Enterprise Centre at the University of East Anglia is one of the most innovative green buildings in the UK. But for its prefabricated cladding, it relies on the region’s most traditional building method
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FeaturesICE 2015 London Engineering Awards
This year’s awards showcase the diverse and innovative nature of projects taking place in the UK’s capital
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FeaturesBuildings as power stations
Scientists are working hard to make the built environment principally reliant on renewable energy. But with only 10% of their ideas leading to commercial application, a Swansea-based innovation centre aims to turn theory into practice
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FeaturesBristol Life Sciences: Split personality
Sheppard Robson’s Bristol Life Sciences building comprises a sober street facade that apes Georgian townhouse vernacular; and a dramatic, industrial laboratory elevation that ripples like a giant metallic wave
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FeaturesBritish pavilion, Milan: Get the buzz
Much of the site of this year’s British pavilion in Milan will evoke the spirit of British landscapes. But its crowning achievement will be a gigantic recreation of a beehive
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FeaturesOur H.O.U.S.E
Combining the benefits of high enviromental efficiency and prefabricated design and assembly, the student-designed H.O.U.S.E is setting the benchmark for regulation friendly housing
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FeaturesMaking waves: Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Moving-floor technology may seem the stuff of fictional super-villain lairs, but the leading hydrodynamics laboratory at Plymouth University has employed the technology to support one of the largest energy wave test sites in the world
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FeaturesThe rise of cross-laminated timber
The first wall of Cambourne College, Cambridge is erected. Initial construction of Wenlock Road.
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FeaturesICE London Engineering Awards winners: Capital schemes
Transport infrastructure projects feature heavily among the winners of this year’s ICE London Engineering Awards. Thomas Lane reports on the ambitious engineering and sheer inventiveness of the developments that aim to make life easier for Londoners