Welcome visitorLogin to your accountRegisterMobile site Latest IssueBuy BuildingAdvertiseContact Monday28 July 2014 HOME NEWS ANALYSIS ECOBUILD AND SUSTAINABILITY BUILDINGS DATA PROFESSIONAL Jobs Product search Communities TRENDING NOW: MARKET FORECAST HOUSING DESIGN AWARDS WINNERS NEW CPD MODULE HOME DIGITAL EDITIONS BUILDING DIGITAL EDITIONS Building Digital Edition - 25 July 2014 25 Jul 14 Top 150 Contractors and Housebuilders Building Digital Edition - 11 July 2014 11 Jul 14 How can the industry find the right staff to meet demand? Building Digital Edition - 27 June 2014 27 Jun 14 Twenty years on, has the Latham report changed construction? Building Digital Edition - 13 June 2014 12 Jun 14 They were the UK’s biggest contractors in 2008, but which of them came out of the recession on top? Building Digital Edition - 30 May 2014 30 May 14 London needs 52,000 new homes a year. Last year we built 17,000. Can we bridge the gap? Building Digital Edition - 16 May 2014 16 May 14 What has happened to the biggest name in UK construction? Building Digital Edition - 02 May 2014 2 May 14 What problems will faster payment to the supply chain spell for main contractors? Building Digital Edition - 17 April 2014 17 Apr 14 The BIM issue Building Digital Edition - 04 April 2014 4 Apr 14 Still waiting: three years after Japan’s tsunami can UK construction help kickstart the rebuild? Building Digital Edition - 21 March 2014 21 Mar 14 A modern classic: Ryder Architecture reinvents Manchester Central Library Building Digital Edition - 07 March 2014 7 Mar 14 After the deluge: How exactly should the UK tackle flood risk? Building Digital Edition - 21 February 2014 21 Feb 14 Moving on: As Paul Sheffield steps down, what’s next for Kier? Building Digital Edition - 07 February 2014 7 Feb 14 What goes around … Are clients who pushed suppliers’ prices now finding their supply chains pushing back? Building Digital Edition - 24 January 2014 24 Jan 14 Demolition man: Keltbray’s Brendan Kerr on his decade at the helm … and the next 15 years Building Digital Edition - 10 January 2014 10 Jan 14 A brighter future: Building launches Agenda 15, your chance to build a manifesto for construction Building Digital Edition - 13 December 2013 13 Dec 13 Next up: Meet Alinea, the former DL and EC Harris partners taking a fresh look at London Building Digital Edition - 29 November 2013 29 Nov 13 Win or lose: The opportunities and risks of rising workloads for the UK’s top specialists Building Digital Edition - 15 November 2013 15 Nov 13 Crime thriller: The Scottish police project that breaks all the rules Building Digital Edition - 01 November 2013 1 Nov 13 Out of the woods: How Willmott Dixon rose to the sustainability challenges of the World Wildlife Fund’s HQ Building Digital Edition - 18 October 2013 18 Oct 13 Ready, steady … Why the commercial sector could take off sooner than you think Building Digital Edition - 04 October 2013 4 Oct 13 Foster’s support act: The practice returns to Glasgow with the £125m Hydro Concert Arena Building Digital Edition - 20 September 2013 20 Sep 13 I call the shots: Mark Reynolds on his £1bn growth plan for Mace and taking on Stephen Pycroft’s old role Building Digital Edition - 06 September 2013 6 Sep 13 Q13: Back to School special Building Digital Edition - 23 August 2013 23 Aug 13 Does too much rest on housing? Building Digital Edition - 02 August 2013 2 Aug 13 ‘Don’t tell me we’re not doing great stuff’ Energy secretary Ed Davey defends the government’s green record Building Digital Edition - 19 July 2013 19 Jul 13 Smart move: On site Building’s new sustainable HQ Building Digital Edition - 05 July 2013 5 Jul 13 Great expectations: Chief construction adviser Peter Hansford on the Industrial Strategy Building Digital Edition - 21 June 2013 21 Jun 13 Crumbs of comfort: How much can Osborne’s spending review help construction? Building Digital Edition - 07 June 2013 7 Jun 13 WARNING Government green policy will damage the UK’s health: How lack of leadership on climate change is harming clients’ investment Building Digital Edition - 24 May 2013 23 May 13 Stonehenge Visitor Centre: £38m to plan it, £27m to build it. But can you see it? Building Digital Edition - 10 May 2013 10 May 13 On the factory floor: Can Derwent London make its budget office appeal to tennants? Building Digital Edition - 26 April 2013 26 Apr 13 Royal flush: Argent’s David Partridge on the £1bn of work coming up at King’s Cross Central Building Digital Edition - 12 April 2013 12 Apr 13 The masterplan: Aecom’s Jason Prior talks Olympics, Davis Langdon and international ambition Building Digital Edition - 28 March 2013 28 Mar 13 See the big picture: Building reviews the schemes shortlisted as our projects of the year 2013 Building Digital Edition - 15 March 2013 15 Mar 13 ‘This would cost the government nothing’: Building puts the case for a green economy to the chancellor Building Digital Edition - 01 March 2013 1 Mar 13 50 green stars: Meet 2013’s bright young things of sustainability Building Digital Edition - 15 February 2013 15 Feb 13 Reinvention or another twist? Top contractors and the pressure to change Building Digital Edition - 01 February 2013 1 Feb 13 Greg Barker: The minister behind the Green Deal squares up to his critics Building Digital Edition - 18 January 2013 18 Jan 13 Where do you fit in? Sizing up Europe’s top 150 contractors Building Digital Edition - 14 December 2012 14 Dec 12 The 2012 review: The highs, the lows and the upheaval inbetween Building Digital Edition - 30 November 2012 30 Nov 12 Top specialists: Find out who’s won what this year Building Digital Edition - 16 November 2012 16 Nov 12 The man driving High Speed 2: Douglas Oakervee on keeping the UK’s biggest rail scheme moving Building Digital Edition - 2 November 2012 2 Nov 12 Dubai rising: Why UK firms are returning to the Middle East Building Digital Edition - 19 October 2012 19 Oct 12 Vision of the future: Building and Ecobuild present the greenest global clients Building Digital Edition - 05 October 2012 5 Oct 12 Brookfield vs the Pinnacle: The £16m court row and what it means for the tower Building Digital Edition - 21 September 2012 21 Sep 12 Cameron rolls up his sleeves: But with the political conference season change anything for construction? Building Digital Edition - 07 September 2012 7 Sep 12 New term … but is the future for education building looking any brighter? Building Digital Edition - 24 August 2012 24 Aug 12 One wrong move … and the government’s planning tax could bring housebuilding tumbling down Building Digital Edition - 03 August 2012 3 Aug 12 After the Shard: Stephen Pycroft on where Mace goes next Building Digital Edition - 20 July 2012 20 Jul 12 A year into Manchester Central Library’s reinvention … is BIM up to the job? Building Digital Edition - 06 July 2012 6 Jul 12 The time is now… Can the government’s strategy save construction? Building Digital Edition - 22 June 2012 22 Jun 12 ‘PFI is not the priority’: Construction minister Mark Prisk on the bigger things to worry about Building Digital Edition - 08 June 2012 8 Jun 12 Down to the wire: The race to build the Thames Cable Car Building Digital Edition - 25 May 2012 25 May 12 What’s going on? Housebuilder profit 160% Homes started 11% Building Digital Edition - 11 May 2012 11 May 12 How the market is cracking up for contractors Building Digital Edition - 27 April 2012 27 Apr 12 Slick move: How the oil and gas boom is fuelling construction Building Digital Edition - 13 April 2012 13 Apr 12 The interrogator: Aecom’s self-confessed hard man takes control at Davis Langdon Building Digital Edition - 30 March 2012 30 Mar 12 In the spotlight: The best buildings of the past year Building Digital Edition - 16 March 2012 16 Mar 12 Meet the real eco warriors: Building’s top 50 rising sustainability stars Building Digital Edition - 02 March 2012 2 Mar 12 The missing greenFree schools: Why eco standards are off the curriculum Building Digital Edition - 17 February 2012 17 Feb 12 Fight club: Mott MacDonald’s Keith Howells Squares up to his heavyweight listed rivals Building Digital Edition - 03 February 2012 3 Feb 12 It’s down to me: Locog’s James Bulley on driving Olympic construction work over the finish line Building Digital Edition - 20 January 2012 20 Jan 12 It’s a jungle out there: Balfour Beatty’s Andrew McNaughton on the firm’s hunt for overseas business - and the future for Europe Building Digital Edition - 06 January 2012 6 Jan 12 Building twenty twelve: In the year of the London olympics we showcase the best the UK construction sector has to offer Building Digital Edition - 09 December 2011 9 Dec 11 Life after Bovis: Meet Michael Dyke, the man running Lend Lease’s remodelled construction arm Building Digital Edition - 25 November 2011 25 Nov 11 On a brighter note: Can the government’s latest private finance plan deliver growth? Building Digital Edition - 11 November 2011 11 Nov 11 Is solar over? The impact of the government’s latest energy u-turn Building Digital Edition - 28 October 2011 28 Oct 11 Inside the first free schools: Building tours the reality of Gove’s big idea Building Digital Edition - 14 October 2011 14 Oct 11 PFI on trial: A private sector gravy train or the saviour of the public estate? Building Digital Edition - 30 September 2011 30 Sep 11 Meet Jacqueline Rast: The woman behind CH2M Hill and the biggest deal of the year Building Digital Edition - 16 September 2011 16 Sep 11 Objection!: Can the Government’s pro-planning policy survive the party conference season intact? Building Digital Edition - 02 September 2011 2 Sep 11 New York rises: A decade after 9/11 Building Digital Edition - 12 August 2011 12 Aug 11 Is this the future of school design? How BAM bought Passivhaus into the mainstream Building Digital Edition - 29 July 2011 29 Jul 11 Learnt your lesson, Gove? The education secretary pulls up his socks on future schools work Building Digital Edition - 15 July 2011 15 Jul 11 Hackney Empire: Featuring a theatre, a bust contractor and the £1m bond that wouldn’t pay out Building Digital Edition - 01 July 2011 1 Jul 11 Hunter or Hunted: How the UK’s biggest consultants are positioning for growth Building Digital Edition - 17 June 2011 17 Jun 11 | Updated: 5 Jul 11 King’s Cross Station: 40 years late, but what an arrival Building Digital Edition - 03 June 2011 3 Jun 11 | Updated: 5 Jul 11 True colours: Aecom’s new boss of Davis Langdon reveals where his loyalties lie Building Digital Edition - 20 May 2011 20 May 11 | Updated: 5 Jul 11 Hepworth reflected: Building tours Chipperfield’s Wakefield Gallery Building Digital Edition - 06 May 2011 6 May 11 | Updated: 5 Jul 11 Zaha: ’Men don’t listen to me, so I have to give them hell’ Digital Supplements | The UK's leading construction magazine - Building 21 May 10 Electronic versions of Building magazine supplements and specials features Building Digital Edition - 18 July 2014 18 Jul 14 Two deals in four days that changed the industry Building Digital Edition - 04 July 2014 4 Jul 14 Is recovery changing the industry’s relationship with government? Building Digital Edition - 20 June 2014 20 Jun 14 Four big developers tell Building what they want from you Building Digital Edition - 06 June 2014 6 Jun 14 The real story behind Brazil’s troubled £7bn world cup build Building Digital Edition - 23 May 2014 23 May 14 It’s the final call to shape a manifesto for construction … so what have you come up with so far? Building Digital Edition - 09 May 2014 9 May 14 Land Securities Colette O’Shea on office design, recovery and the problem with architects Building Digital Edition - 25 April 2014 25 Apr 14 Meet the UK’s new top ten housebuilder Building Digital Edition - 11 April 2014 11 Apr 14 A special edition celebrating the companies, projects and people that triumphed at the Building Awards 2014 Building Digital Edition - 28 March 2014 28 Mar 14 End of the line? Why Osborne’s tax clampdown could put a stop to cheap construction labour forces Building Digital Edition - 14 March 2014 14 Mar 14 Lend Lease’s European construction boss Neil Martin on his plan to pull the division back into profit Building Digital Edition - 28 February 2014 28 Feb 14 Sustainability is … Fifty of green construction’s brightest young talents Building Digital Edition - 14 February 2014 14 Feb 14 Where should the next government prioritise its construction spending? Building Digital Edition - 31 January 2014 31 Jan 14 Black & white: Shadow housing minister Emma Reynolds spells out where big housebuilders are going wrong Building Digital Edition - 17 January 2014 17 Jan 14 Eye of the storm: The truth about spending on UK flood protection Building Digital Edition - 20 December 2013 20 Dec 13 Fighting back: Construction marks the end of 2013 in Building’s Boxing Day Challenge Building Digital Edition - 06 December 2013 6 Dec 13 Inside Story: How PWC created the highest BREEAM-rated building ever Building Digital Edition - 22 November 2013 22 Nov 13 On the ground in Qatar: Life in the labour camps; World Cup stadium unveiled; UK firms in line for work Building Digital Edition - 08 November 2013 8 Nov 13 Back to their roots: The founders of Rise on lean project management, winning big clients and the Mace connection … Building Digital Edition - 25 October 2013 25 Oct 13 Chain reaction: Will the Hinkley deal herald a new age of nuclear work? Building Digital Edition - 11 October 2013 11 Oct 13 The deadly game: What responsibility do UK firms in Qatar have to the World Cup’s workers? Building Digital Edition - 27 September 2013 27 Sep 13 Finally, something to celebrate … The firms feeling the lift in this year’s league Building Digital Edition - 13 September 2013 13 Sep 13 A fresh angle: How the Cheesegrater tower is finding its place in the City Building Digital Edition - 30 August 2013 30 Aug 13 All it’s stacked up to be? Inside Mecanoo’s £189m Birmingham Library Building Digital Edition - 09 August 2013 9 Aug 13 Sun, sea and central heating – could indoor beaches be the world’s weirdest construction market? Building Digital Edition - 26 July 2013 26 Jul 13 Top 150 Contractors & Housebuilders Building Digital Edition - 12 July 2013 12 Jul 13 Highly ranked: Graham Cash on where the £300m Google HQ win takes Bam Building Digital Edition - 28 June 2013 28 Jun 13 China town: Do recent London deals signal a surge of Chinese cash into the UK? Building Digital Edition - 14 June 2013 14 Jun 13 Tune in to BIM FM: A new wavelength for facilities management Building Digital Edition - 31 May 2013 31 May 13 Nautical but nice: The museum relaunching the Mary Rose Building Digital Edition - 17 May 2013 17 May 13 Learning curves: Liverpool Central Library’s imaginative refurbishment Building Digital Edition - 03 May 2013 3 May 13 Defeated: Where does the May Gurney saga leave Andrew Wyllie and Costain? Building Digital Edition - 19 April 2013 19 Apr 13 Has Birmingham’s New Street Station finally made it into the 21st century? Building Digital Edition - 05 April 2013 5 Apr 13 Inside the box: It’s cheap. It’s flexible. It’s ready to roll out. But is this the solution to the school building crisis? Building Digital Edition - 22 March 2013 22 Mar 13 Moving in: How developers are finally unlocking the planning system Building Digital Edition - 08 March 2013 8 Mar 13 Cash strapped: Why contractors are struggling to keep money in the bank Building Digital Edition - 22 February 2013 22 Feb 13 Green lights: Building’s pick of the UK’s most sustainable projects Building Digital Edition - 08 February 2013 8 Feb 13 Free at last: But what will the unlocking of the marketing ban mean for Olympics firms? Building Digital Edition - 25 January 2013 25 Jan 13 Out of the shadow of the Shard: The Place makes its mark on London Bridge Building Digital Edition - 11 January 2013 11 Jan 13 Green for Growth - Our campaign to put sustainable construction back on the government’s agenda Building Digital Edition - 07 December 2012 7 Dec 12 In 20 years time India will have four times as many buildings as now. But what will be the environmental cost? Building Digital Edition - 23 November 2012 23 Nov 12 Good with Green: How the Co-op’s Manchester HQ became the UK’s most sustainable office Building Digital Edition - 09 November 9 Nov 12 The blacklisting fallout: How much do contractors have to fear? Building Digital Edition - 26 October 2012 26 Oct 12 This is no quick fix: Mike Peasland reveals Balfour Beatty’s radical new structure Building Digital Edition - 12 October 2012 12 Oct 12 Forget speedy boarding: What BAA’s troubles mean for construction Building Digital Edition - 28 September 2012 28 Sep 12 Top 200 Consultants: Which firms have made it onto the 2012 list? Building Digital Edition - 14 September 2012 14 Sep 12 His own man: Berkeley’s boss on power struggles, pay and stepping out of Tony Pidgley’s shadow Building Digital Edition - 31 August 2012 31 Aug 12 SOLVE THIS: The twisting path to Green Deal finance Building Digital Edition - 10 August 2012 10 Aug 12 After the gold rush: Did we pay too much for the Olympics? Building Digital Edition - 27 July 2012 27 Jul 12 You did it - The 12 key moments that made the Olympics possible Building Digital Edition - 13 July 2012 13 Jul 12 East meets West: China grand opera - with a European twist Building Digital Edition - 29 June 2012 29 Jun 12 What your clients really think of you: Exclusive findings from Building’s survey of 350 top spenders. Take a closer look Building Digital Edition - 15 June 2012 15 Jun 12 Why WSP had to merge: Boss Chris Cole on the deal with Genivar Building Digital Edition - 1 June 2012 1 Jun 12 Never mind the carbuncles: What the royals have done for architecture Building Digital Edition - 18 May 2012 18 May 12 The science of growth: Dr Uwe Krueger, the brains behind Atkins’ international push Building Digital Edition - 04 May 2012 4 May 12 Richard Rogers on fame, politics & moving to the Middle East Building Digital Edition - 20 April 2012 20 Apr 12 Get ready for Rio: UK construction limbers up for the Olympic handover Building Digital Edition - 05 April 2012 5 Apr 12 Who said the library was dead? Feilden Clegg Bradley’s Worcester reinvention Building Digital Edition - 23 March 2012 23 Mar 12 Welcome to China: Building visits the biggest construction market in the world Building Digital Edition - 09 March 2012 9 Mar 12 After the deal: Arcadis new boss on EC Harris and other takeovers Building Digital Edition - 24 February 2012 24 Feb 12 Land of plenty: Why Qatar is probably the best client in the world Building Digital Edition - 10 February 2012 10 Feb 12 Thirty ways to make Part L look sexy Building Digital Edition - 27 January 2012 27 Jan 12 Inside the Olympic village: It’s big, it’s ambitious … but is it any good? Building Digital Edition - 13 January 2012 13 Jan 12 Exposed: The truth about the Green Deal Building Digital Edition - 16 December 2011 16 Dec 11 Sugar high: Aecom’s Jeremy Horner and Steve Morriss roll up their sleeves against Sellar, Make and Lend Lease in Building’s festive bake off Building Digital Edition - 02 December 2011 2 Dec 11 Just add (more) water: How a hydropower revolution could light up Britain Building Digital Edition - 18 November 2011 18 Nov 11 The UK’s top specialists and their wishes for reform … If only they had a genie Building Digital Edition - 04 November 2011 4 Nov 11 A bigger splash: Tom Bloxham moves in on London Building Digital Edition - 21 October 2011 21 Oct 11 When Harrie met Philip: The inside story of the Arcadis / EC Harris merger Building Digital Edition - 07 October 2011 7 Oct 11 Top 200 Consultants: Which firms have come out on top in 2011? Building Digital Edition - 23 September 2011 23 Sep 11 Three years delayed, £12m over budget and a contractor sunk. Was Rafael Viñoly’s arts centre worth the agony? Building Digital Edition - 09 September 2011 9 Sep 11 So where now for England’s schools? A 13-page special on the crisis at the heart of education policy Building Digital Edition - 26 August 2011 26 Aug 11 We’re not as good as we will be: Steve Morriss on joining, leading and growing AECOM Europe Building Digital Edition - 05 August 2011 5 Aug 11 Health scare: How the government created a needless panic over Procure 21+ Building Digital Edition - 22 July 2011 22 Jul 11 Top 150 Contractors and Housebuilders Building Digital Edition - 08 July 2011 8 Jul 11 We need nuclear now: Why the government must stop stalling or it’s lights out for the UK Building Digital Edition - 24 June 2011 24 Jun 11 | Updated: 5 Jul 11 No more frills: Ken Shuttleworth on why Londonwill never need another Gherkin Building Digital Edition - 10 June 2011 10 Jun 11 | Updated: 5 Jul 11 Mature client seeks fresh start: GSOH a must, no weirdos Building Digital Edition - 27 May 2011 27 May 11 | Updated: 5 Jul 11 Top That: On site at London’s incredible rising Shard Building Digital Edition - 13 May 2011 13 May 11 | Updated: 5 Jul 11 Anybody’s guess? Everyone knows the government’s construction output figures are way out. So we’ve had a go ourselves Building Digital Edition - 29 April 2011 29 Apr 11 | Updated: 5 Jul 11 Operation search and build: There is £3bn of defence work out there - but can you find it? 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