Projects and Features
Sustainability in action on City of London development
Extensive re-use of an existing basement as well as the refurbishment of a fire station are just some of the features of a prestigious City of London …
Steel graduates at Bournemouth
An 11-storey steel framed student accommodation block has already become a well known structure in a town not previously renowned for its high rise buildings. …
Four into one will go
A new campus for Burnley College will replace four existing sites and bring a university into the town as a centre of the University of Central Lancashire. …
Landmark conference centre to boost business tourism
Visually outstanding and structurally challenging, Dublin’s National Conference Centre is set to put Ireland on the global conferencing map, writes Martin …
Town centre enhanced with steel
The Oxfordshire market town of Witney is being transformed as a new retail and leisure development takes shape on a three hectare site formerly occupied by a …
Lights, camera and action
On a former dockland site in Salford, Media City UK will accommodate the BBC as well as other major broadcasters, large media corporations and a myriad of …
Steel tops new London college
A highly visual and architecturally driven steel roof structure is the crowning glory of a multi-million pound college redevelopment in south London. South …
40 Years Ago: The world’s tallest residential-office building begins to climb
Taken from Building with Steel, 1968 The John Hancock Centre in Chicago has to climb to a height of 1,107ft above ground level before it is complete and …
Table top construction
A new world class arena in Dublin’s Docklands is being constructed from the shell of a former train shed. Martin Cooper reports on a project which has …
Fast cores aid on-site craneage
A faster construction programme and an extremely tight site meant a number of innovative solutions were called for on a prestigious central London project. The …
