All Features articles – Page 2
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FeaturesTop 20 Facilities Management and Services Firms 2023
The fully sortable data has been taken from Building’s ranking of the top 20 facilities management & services firms in the UK
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FeaturesTop 150 Contractors and Housebuilders 2023: Optimism is there if you look for it but familiar worries dog year ahead
High-profile collapses and astonishing losses at Laing O’Rourke mean firms are cautious about what’s coming in 2024
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FeaturesTop 150 Contractors & Housebuilders 2023: The full table
Full sortable data from Building’s ranking of the top 150 contractors and housebuilders in the UK
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FeaturesTop 150 Contractors and Housebuilders 2023: Digging into the data
Beneath the headline rankings of the top 150 contracting and housebuilding firms in the sector, there are more complex stories to tell based on turnover, profit and margins
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FeaturesThose were the days… Building editors look back at how construction has changed
As we come to the end of our 180th year, our current editor invited four of her predecessors to pick out the memorable stories they covered spanning over 30 years of Building’s history
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Features‘Nobody believes them any more’… HOK’s Daniel Hajjar considers what is wrong with UK politics and planning
After 20 years in the Middle East, Daniel Hajjar moved to the UK, where, eight years on, he finds the political ‘flakiness’ of the country has made it an infuriating place to build. Thomas Lowe reports
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FeaturesCost model: Delivering sustainable hotels
Hotels are competing as somewhere to stay and as places to see and be seen. Delivering sustainable, health-conscious and imaginatively designed spaces is the challenge
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Features5 minutes with … Richard Farrey at Silverstone Building Consultancy
The firm’s lead director on building his business, the importance of a can-do attitude and why the best buildings are in the North-east
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FeaturesSalford’s Eden project – not your common-or-garden eco office
CiA new office building incorporating Europe’s largest green wall is also one of the UK’s most sustainable. Thomas Lane looks at how the team managed it
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FeaturesBuilding Talks Creating Communities podcast: In conversation with Anna Mansfield at Publica
Episode 4: Anna Mansfield on the loss of shared spaces after covid and the importance of designing for the needs of women and young people
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FeaturesFrom the archives: Britain celebrates victory in Europe, 1945
The Builder marks the surrender of Nazi Germany as Britain looks to the future
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FeaturesMy route into construction … Nasrin Sadeghi, structural engineer at Symmetrys
The industry includes an impressive range and variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns
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FeaturesWhat happens to development plans when a council goes ‘bankrupt’?
When a section 114 ‘bankruptcy’ notice is put in place, a council’s non-statutory services are restricted and housebuilding ‘goes to the back of the queue’. Yet the growing number of councils in this situation are finding ways to carry on building
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FeaturesBuilding Talks Creating Communities podcast: In conversation with David Rudlin at BDP
Episode 3: David Rudlin talks about the importance of urban design and why planning needs to rediscover its capacity to create good quality places
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FeaturesMy route into construction … Sean O’Regan, assistant quantity surveyor, McLaren
The industry includes an impressive variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns
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FeaturesFrom the archives: The Blitz, 1940-41
The Builder reports as London is assaulted by nightly German bombing raids
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Features5 minutes with … Rebecca Hartshorn at Sisk
The firm’s national framework director on the need for greater industry collaboration, juggling her career and motherhood, her favourite roast dinner and her dislike of blocky concrete buildings
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FeaturesRevealed: average salaries for leadership roles at largest 50 housebuilders
A new survey reveals the locations and job titles within the industry that command the most impressive wages and bonuses. Matilda Battersby reports.
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FeaturesBuilding Talks Creating Communities podcast: In conversation with Selina Mason at Lendlease
Episode 2: Selina Mason talks about people-focused urbanism and the work she is doing on Birmingham’s Smithfield scheme
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FeaturesMy route into construction … Thomas Edgcumbe, managing director, Aggregate Industries
The industry includes an impressive range and variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns