All Building Design articles in September 2024 – Page 8
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Guidance released for assessing carbon impact of design and advisory work
Big consultancies back new methods to assess emissions, while Univeristy of Exeter calls for mandates to boost investment in clean technology such as heat pumps
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Reeves promises budget with ‘real ambition’ and defends cuts to key projects
Chancellor tells Labour conference there will be no return to austerity despite funding pressures
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Timeline: How ISG went from ‘wholly inaccurate’ claims about its financial health to ‘ISG has filed for administration’
In space of 10 months, firm went from dismissing sepculation to the brink of administration
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Construction industry’s ‘broken economic model’ under scrutiny in wake of ISG collapse
Consensus grows that contractors’ margin levels ‘not sustainable’ and more firms will go to wall unless current system changes
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Ministers seek views on brownfield planning passport scheme to speed up development
MHCLG issues policy paper and call to evidence on first day of Labour party conference
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Building safety remediation acceleration plan will be brought forward this autumn, says Rayner
Housing secretary also commits to build more social homes than are lost within first financial year of new government
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Opinion
The key to designing successful tall buildings
As tall buildings rise, so does the need for thoughtful design and public trust, writes Tom Mitchell
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Design Council shares new design code guidance for local authorities
Design Codes Pathfinder Programme aims to help local authorities across England produce policies in line with the National Model Design Code
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Major contractor set to file for administration, chief executive confirms
ISG to go under two months after firm’s chairman said rescue deal was ‘days away’
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Teenagers collaborate on King’s Cross timber pavilion
Installation was designed over a series of summer schools with the support of architects and designers
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Fosters to lead on Old Trafford masterplan
The project will develop a vision for club-owned land around the stadium
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Feilden Clegg Bradley’s Kigali masterplan gets go-ahead
Scheme has been designed in collaboration with international team including AKT II and Studio FH
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Opinion
ARB’s code of conduct overhaul calls for architects to step up
The architectural regulator’s draft code of conduct reflects a rapidly evolving professional context, writes Ben Flatman
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Days of demolish and rebuild ‘long gone’, construction chief tells conference
Chief operating officer John Wilkinson says retaining existing structure is the right thing to do
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Industry needs to be more vocal in supporting Grenfell findings, construction boss says, and warns contracting’s ‘bizarre’ margins not sustainable
Eoghan O’Lionaird bemoans industry’s ‘relative silence over report and admits firm’s 2% margin is not good enough
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One in five practices have seen projects abandoned in the past three months due to planning delays
Council delays still a drag on sector despite growing confidence on workloads and staffing levels
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Westminster City Council offers lukewarm response to Khan’s Oxford Street pedestrianisation plans
Scheme appears to be a relaunch of previous 2017 proposals, shared by the mayor without consultation with the local council
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Three Stirling Prize winners on RIBA’s Reinvention Awards shortlist
Mikhail Riches, Grafton Architects and Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios in the running for 2024 retrofit prize
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Howells submits plans for Birmingham Botanical Gardens restoration
Scheme has been designed in collaboration with Donald Insall Associates and seeks to strip away previous additions to reveal original heritage structures