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‘We hope to be a good neighbour’: how the new Liverpool Street station team is rethinking London’s most controversial project. A week after Herzog & de Meuron’s proposals were dropped, Building speaks to Network Rail and the scheme’s new architect Acme about the redesign of the listed station and what exactly has happened to development partner Sellar
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Oct 12, 2024 · CPD 17 2024: Flat roofs and fire testing standards. Sponsored by Soprema. Sponsored by Soprema, this CPD module delves into the rise of flat roofs, their evolving nature, and the crucial fire testing standards that must be met in order to achieve compliance with current building regulations.
Offices closed and sites shut as ISG set to file for administration ...
Sep 20, 2024 · ISG’s chief executive has confirmed that the company is set to go into administration and told staff that offices will be closed from today while sites will also be shut.
Top 50 Housebuilders 2022: full table | Features | Building
Dec 14, 2022 · Full sortable data from Housing Today’s ranking of the top 50 UK housebuilders. See below for Building’s ranking of the Top 50 UK commercial housebuilders by turnover. The tables, compiled by Hewes Associates, are fully sortable, including figures for turnover, completions, operating profit, completions and average sales price.
ISG’s collapse: a huge blow to construction that raises urgent and ...
Sep 20, 2024 · We have heard for some time that ISG was in financial difficulties, but hopes of a rescue deal were raised back in July when staff were informed by the chairman of an imminent sale.. Now we are faced with the biggest collapse the construction sector has seen since Carillion went into compulsory liquidation in 2018, and like then the implications are huge.
A quick guide to collateral warranties and third party rights on ...
Sep 12, 2011 · What is a collateral warranty? On a construction or engineering project, a collateral warranty is a contract under which a professional consultant (such as an architect), a building contractor or a sub-contractor warrants to a third party (such as a funder) that it has complied with its professional appointment, building contract or sub-contract.
How to operate condensing boilers most efficiently
Aug 4, 2008 · Condensing mode requires a return temperature of 54°C or lower. So maximum system temperatures of 70°C supply and 50°C return are preferable or, to condense continuously, 50°C supply and 30°C return. Higher temperatures have traditionally been specified to account for winter weather but, in fact, they are required only when it is -2°C ...
Which construction firms have landed HS2 contracts so far?
Mar 29, 2022 · At least £15bn of work across and more than 35 contracts have already been handed to construction firms by HS2. Among the firms to already have been handed work on the project are contractors including Balfour Beatty, Mace, Vinci and Skanska, as well as consultants Lendlease, Mott MacDonald and CH2M. Here is HS2’s list of who’s got what so ...
Hinkley Point C: Building Britain’s first nuclear reactor in 30 years
Hinkley Point C is the first nuclear reactor to be built since Sizewell B was completed in 1995. Called the European pressurised water reactor (EPR), Hinkley Point C is the third example to be built in Europe. The first was built at Olkiluoto in Finland and the second at Flamanville in France. Each of these projects has gone massively over ...
Kier and Wates among winners on £150m Cambridgeshire …
By Tom Lowe 8 December 2021. Four-year deal largely covers education jobs. A host of firms including Kier, Morgan Sindall and Wates have been awarded places on a £150m construction framework for Cambridge council. Kier bagged places on three of the £150m framework’s lots. The three-year framework, which has an option for a one-year ...