Thomas Lane
Responsible for the projects section which covers architecture and technical. This includes regulations, sustainability, innovation and best practice. Thomas also looks after the economics section of the magazine.
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- thomas.lane@assemblemediagroup.co.uk
FeaturesSurvey results: How are companies supporting staff health and wellbeing?
Building Boardroom examines construction firms’ strategies on staff health and wellbeing in this latest HR survey, and asks Hays property and construction director Gaelle Blake for her views on the topic
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Interview: bringing Waltham Forest into bloom
This east London borough has a massive regeneration plan afoot, spending half a billion pounds over the next few years. Building Boardroom spoke with the council’s Simon Miller, Stewart Murray and Mark Brickell to find out more about their strategy and what they seek in delivery partners
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How Sir Robert McAlpine went digital
Shifting a large firm completely over to digital is a major challenge, though one that brings huge benefits. Building Boardroom asked Nick Leach, head of digital at McAlpine, how he managed it
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Bodmin Jail: unlocking the potential of a piece of Cornish history
Abandoned in 1927 and left to ruin for almost a century, it took a team of brave (or foolhardy?) developers to decide that Bodmin Jail had the potential to become a hotel and tourist attraction. Bats, pigeons, neighbouring builders and covid-19 ensured that realising their vision was easier said ...
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The urgency of now: how can construction meet its green targets?
A report by the Climate Change Committee sets out a host of ambitious carbon reduction targets and points to where resources need to be focused. Thomas Lane looks at three of the areas of most interest to construction and assesses what it will take to meet the targets
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How HS2 is accelerating innovation: an interview with Howard Mitchell
Building Boardroom talks to the man responsible for delivering HS2’s innovation programme about leveraging the scale of the project to explore imaginative but data-based new approaches
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The drive for green machines
Things are changing on construction sites, and some of the biggest polluters are taking significant steps to reduce their carbon footprint
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Confidence recovering as more lockdown measures eased, Building survey says
Optimism jumps 90% on figure recorded last December
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Future forecast: March - May 2021
Building Boardroom’s latest quarterly sentiment survey, examining attitudes and expectations on workloads, fees and recruitment, finds private housing still going strong and greater optimism about the next three months – except among engineers
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The Building Safety Regulator: What will it look like?
We talk to Peter Baker, the new chief inspector of buildings about the shape of the new organisation that will oversee building safety
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Peter Baker: meet the man who must ensure no repeat of Grenfell
The new chief inspector of buildings is overseeing a huge shake-up of safety regulations. There is a lot of work to do, he tells Thomas Lane
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Building safety regulator begins hunt for 700 staff
Group was set up following 2018 Hackitt report into Grenfell fire
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Barony Campus: Scotland’s new super school
It has been described as the most innovative, ambitious and inclusive learning facility in the country - Sheppard Robson tells how the client ditched the frameworks route for a bespoke design
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Whole life carbon assessments: What you need to know
The London Plan now requires a whole lifecycle assessment as a condition of planning. We examine the implications for the industry
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Shared values come first: an interview with the Co-op’s Jason Huxtable
Building Boardroom talks to head of property Jason Huxtable about the Co-op’s approach to procurement, innovation and sustainability
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Does the QS have a future?
Building Boardroom asks Willmott Dixon’s northern MD and a QS by training, Anthony Dillon, about the changing role of the profession within the industry
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BeFirst: bringing a rundown London borough back to life
BeFirst is charged with building 50,000 homes and helping create 20,000 jobs in Barking and Dagenham. We spoke to development director Ed Skeates and Tom Mather, the director of construction about the development company’s plans
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The Green Homes Grant fiasco is such a missed opportunity
The failure to properly fund domestic retrofit puts a national programme further out of reach
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Retrofit grant scheme money to be clawed back by government
Just 5% of £1.5bn green homes fund spent in four months
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New report says hydrogen is ‘an ineffective way of decarbonising buildings’
Costs of converting gas network to rival product too expensive for private investors to shoulder alone, energy group adds
