All Features articles – Page 7
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Addressing net zero in the North-east
The challenges and opportunities presented by the quest for net zero took centre stage as our Building the Future Commission’s regional roundtable tour headed to Newcastle
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‘It’s great, I admit it’ – Populous’s Chris Lee (and Arsenal fan) on Tottenham’s stadium and keeping the firm’s strategy simple
The boss of the go-to sports and entertainment architect speaks to Dave Rogers about why business has never been better and what makes a good stadium.
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5 minutes with … Mark Swetman at LS Estates
The firm’s chief executive on the importance of good communication, his dislike of laziness and his admiration for innovation
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BSBG submits Section 73 amendment for Royal Mint Street phase 2 scheme
Brewer Smith Brewer Group (BSBG) has submitted a Section 73 planning application for the Royal Mint Street Phase 2 development, with a number of amendments and revisions to the consented scheme primarily targeted at improving operational activity between residential and hotel uses, enhancing internal efficiency and creating ...
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Market forecast: Why tender prices are likely to continue rising despite cost inflation easing
The ongoing economic backdrop of elevated interest rates is increasingly impacting construction
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Has 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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Building 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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Lord 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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‘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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Seven 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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From the archives: The Great War drags on, 1915 - 1916
The Builder reports on mounting casualities as the war’s impact on Britain - and its construction industry - becomes clear
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Could 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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5 minutes with … Louise Boddie at Hudson Architects
The leader of the firm’s portfolio of community, culture and education projects emphasises the social and environmental responsibility of her job and the importance of doing work that you enjoy
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The 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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‘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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They 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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Time 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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5 minutes with … Neeral Shah at YardLink
The company founder and CEO on his pride in building his team, the importance of embracing technology and his constant quest for improvement
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Are 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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Everything 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?