All Features articles – Page 10
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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
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FeaturesExpansion plans and adding value: Currie & Brown boss Alan Manuel points the way ahead
Currie & Brown is now owned by multi-national giant Dar Group and has ambitions to expand its turnover 50% by 2027 - here’s how
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Features5 minutes with … Lisa Gledhill at EcoWorld London
The firm’s managing director of development on balancing creativity with rigorous discipline, how the industry can improve its recruitment and her best-ever day as a Bradford City supporter
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FeaturesFrom the archives: Building in Bombay, 1879-1892
Building reports from the port city now known as Mumbai as two of the British Raj’s largest ever colonial buildings are completed
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FeaturesBuilding the Future Commission: review of May
The Building the Future Commission has been hard at work, find out what’s happened over the past month
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FeaturesHow big a blow is the closure of L&G’s flagship factory to the prospects of MMC?
Industry players from Mark Farmer to Mike Leonard reflect on the end of production at L&G’s factory in Yorkshire
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FeaturesIn business with Rapleys’ Justin Tuckwell
In the past few years Rapleys’ income from building consultancy has increased 300%, catapulting the man behind it to managing partner of the whole firm
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FeaturesHolbein Gardens: A positive step on the net zero office refurbishment journey
Armed with new net zero carbon targets, developer Grosvenor tested these out on a tired 1980s office building near Sloane Square
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FeaturesFrom the archives: Replacing Old Smithfield Market, 1864-68
The Builder reports as London rebuilds its 1,000-year-old meat market
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Features5 minutes with … Louise Hamot at Introba
The firm’s global lead for sustainable innovation shares her passion for sustainability, industry-wide collaboration, vegetable soup and carpentry
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FeaturesInternational cost comparison 2023
The latest trends in international construction markets amid a global economic environment of rising inflation and a strengthening of the US dollar
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FeaturesHow can we tackle the skills crisis? The next generation reports
The Building the Future Commission young persons’ advisory panel has made a series of recommendations to help the industry attract a better and more diverse range of recruits
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FeaturesWhy partnerships are key to fixing the housing crisis: an interview with Sir Michael Lyons
The one-time New Labour fixer tells Joey Gardiner about his plans to expand the English Cities Fund, the ‘shameful’ state of English planning - and what the next government needs to do to get more homes built
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FeaturesTackling short termism: we hear from the Building the Future Commissioners
Building gathers a group of Building the Future commissioners together for the first time to take soundings on ideas to improve the built environment
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FeaturesWhat we know so far about the New Hospital Programme relaunch
Contract notice for delivery partner to oversee ‘fundamental shift’ in healthcare schemes to be posted by September
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FeaturesUKREIIF round-up: Councils announce new investments as industry vents frustration with government
The UK’s big new real estate event returned to Leeds for its second outing this year. Daniel Gayne was there to talk to government and industry about trends in development, the year ahead in politics and the future of UKREIIF itself
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FeaturesIs AI coming for your job?
In the fourth part of our series on AI in construction, Thomas Lane asks if AI is a silver bullet to address industry inefficiencies and skills shortages
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FeaturesWay to go – still scratching the surface of AI
Continuing our series looking at artificial intelligence in construction, Thomas Lane asks how machine learning might evolve to benefit the industry
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FeaturesMargins of error – how to work with an AI system that is not always right
In the second part of our series looking at AI in construction, Thomas Lane examines the downsides of artificial intelligence
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FeaturesWhat does artificial intelligence mean for construction?
This is AI Week and to kick off a four-part series we look at firms developing their own machine learning tools