All articles by Tom Lowe – Page 38
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Berkeley looks towards low-rise if single staircase ban in towers goes ahead
Developer says fire safety rules will put high rise schemes awaiting planning “back to square one”
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Hunt to spend £20bn on carbon capture schemes across UK
Chancellor also announces launch of first competition to design small modular reactors
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More work needed to persuade young people to take construction T-levels, minister admits
Take-up of new technical qualifications still far behind BTECs
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KPF co-founder Gene Kohn dies aged 92
US architect passed away this week following year-long battle with cancer
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From the archives: Dodging falling bricks at the Natural History Museum construction site, 1876
An account of what visitors found when being shown round the half-completed building by its architect Alfred Waterhouse
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Eric Parry gets OK for Tokyo tower
Scheme to be a major landmark in city’s central shopping district
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The power of four: how UK’s biggest builders are working together on £1bn prisons programme
ISG, Kier, Laing O’Rourke and Wates have joined forces to build four new English prisons, pooling their resources and skills to form one big collaborative team. Here’s how it works
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Use unspent apprenticeship levy money to boost heritage retrofit skills, government told
Report by five big industry names including Peabody and Grosvenor calls for more investment in decarbonsing historic buildings
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Laing O’Rourke lined up for major City fringe office block
AHMM-designed plans for 20-storey scheme submitted to Hackney council last month
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From the archives: First proposals for the Glasgow Subway, 1887
Ӱ flags the risk of trains colliding in the Glasgow Subway’s narrow tunnels
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Luton airport lodges application for major expansion
Plans would nearly double the airport’s passenger capacity to 32 million
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Oxford council approves £150m life sciences campus
Scott Brownrigg scheme to consist of three buildings housing 66,000sq m of lab and office space
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Arcadis and Hawkins Brown to ‘re-evaluate’ £150m Elephant & Castle upgrade
Transport for London recently admitted it does not have enough money to finish the job under current plans
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Kier carrying out safety inspections on Argent building in King’s Cross after cladding falls off
Straps attached to award-winning scheme’s facade as precaution, developer says
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Architects on recruitment drive despite workload worries
Number of practices looking to bring in more staff on upward trajectory, new RIBA report finds
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From the archives: The opening of Clifton Suspension Bridge, 1864
The Builder reports on the opening of Brunel’s historic bridge, which was finally completed more than a century after plans were first laid.
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Government appoints NatWest boss as energy efficiency taskforce co-chair
Alison Rose to lead team alongside energy minister Martin Callanan
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Architect increases height of Paddington tower scheme previously refused for being too tall
London mayor Sadiq Khan to rule on Squires’ plans for three towers up to 39 storeys for developer Berkeley
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BCO strengthens sustainability targets for offices in update to design guide
Minimum target for offices upgraded from BREEAM ‘very good’ to ‘excellent’.