All Technical articles
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FeaturesWhy build with concrete when you can build with stone?
Stone is typically stronger than concrete with one third of the carbon impact. Engineer Webb Yates is reinventing an ancient material for the modern age
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FeaturesGather round: Greenwich Design District
Mole鈥檚 Victorian warehouse-inspired timber buildings really stand out聽among the low-cost rental studio spaces designed for creative industries
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FeaturesSpecifier: Covid-safe technology
In the wake of covid-19, it is clear that infection control needs to become integral to buildings 鈥� as well as to construction sites. David Ludlow surveys some innovative products that can help protect against virus transmission
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好色先生TVAtkins and Faithful+Gould picked for 鈥婬omes England MMC research
New study will include Urban Splash, Countryside and Vistry developments
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FeaturesSpecifier: Making 22 Bishopsgate a smart building
The building services at 22 Bishopsgate will be run by an innovative integrated system called Smart Spaces, which maximises energy efficiency as well as enhancing flexibility and security
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FeaturesProjects: How 3D printing is changing construction
The race is on to design the best 3D printing system for construction
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FeaturesSpecifier: Expanded cork at the Cork House, Eton
How a project on an island in the River Thames has changed the use of expanded cork
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FeaturesProjects: One Bishopsgate Plaza, London
The newly rebranded聽One Bishopsgate Plaza brings rare residential space to the City of London鈥檚 Eastern Cluster
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FeaturesUK Hydrographic Office in Somerset: Where wood and water meet
Bringing everything together under one roof was a central aim in creating a new headquarters for the UK Hydrographic Office 鈥� so why not make it the defining feature? Helena Russell reports
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FeaturesProjects: 7D BIM - The BIM Identity
Could the holy grail of聽BIM-enabled whole-life cost estimation be one step closer?
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FeaturesProjects: The Londoner, Leicester Square
Faced with severe space constraints on the site of the former Odeon cinema in Leicester Square, Edwardian Hotels has built more than half of The Londoner underground
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好色先生TVNext generation will bypass construction if it doesn鈥檛 modernise, MMC experts warn
Comments made at 好色先生TV Live Club event on offsite聽
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好色先生TVDfE outlines offsite building boom
Department wants to double number of schools built using method year on year
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FeaturesProjects: The Compton, Regent's Park
An innovative choice of cladding material 鈥� cast aluminium 鈥� has created an unusual look for these luxury flats near Regent鈥檚 Park
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FeaturesProjects: Exploring 鈥榯he third space鈥�
Three new London commercial schemes explore the 鈥榠n-between鈥� areas that are neither home nor workplace, neither public nor private
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FeaturesProjects: Laing O鈥橰ourke on site at Edinburgh St聽James
The redevelopment of Edinburgh鈥檚 St James shopping centre with new apartments, a hotel and retail is on a regal scale 鈥� but a very small site
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FeaturesBring on the robots: the world's first 3D-printed house
It may still be sci-fi for some, but 3D printing is fast breaking down conventional barriers in engineering and architecture and changing the way the construction industry operates
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CommentThe pitfalls of 3D printing
In the fourth of our series on new technology, Rebecca Morjaria explains the legal considerations of 3D printing and who is responsible if it goes wrong
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FeaturesThe return of the clerk of works
Concerns about building quality and safety, especially in the wake of Grenfell, have led to calls for a more co-ordinated approach to accountability. Could the answer be to revive the largely lapsed role of clerk of works?
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FeaturesAn architectural side note
The 拢57m Birmingham Conservatoire鈥檚 quiet restraint has produced an anonymous facade that conceals rather than celebrates the elegant music spaces within