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Hopes of lower interest rates fuels optimism in the construction sector UK construction companies have said they’re increasingly hopeful that the downturn which has hit the sector over the past year or so is coming to an end. According to S&P’s construction purchasing managers’ index (PMI), optimism among construction companies reached its highest level in […]
St. Albert city council has decided to spend an extra $3 million on a new fire station that will now be built conventionally, instead of the modular building style council agreed on in late 2022. The new fire station, the city’s fourth, will be built on the northwest corner of the St. Albert Trail and Neil […]
Pictured: Leicester City Football Club legend and former captain, Steve Walsh (left), and Gary Burrows, senior project manager at Unique (right), at the handover of the new French doors installed at Gorse Hill City Farm. Award-winning fabricator of PVCu and aluminium windows, doors and curtain walling, Unique Window Systems has lent its support to an […]
Timber Development UK (TDUK) – the UK’s trade association for the timber supply chain – in collaboration with Waugh Thistleton Architects – have released a study on policies from across the globe which encourage the use of timber in construction. Timber Policy is a comparative study of policies, across six countries, which can act as […]
Post-consumer recycled aluminium scrap is transformed into new building materials (Credit: Andrea Starr, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) Twisted aluminium mesh, broken bicycle frames and used car parts languishing in junkyards could gain new life as building structures such as door and window frames thanks to a new recycling technique. Based on a patent-pending technology developed […]
Set to rival The Shard as the city’s joint tallest building Updated designs for London’s newest skyscraper, set to rival The Shard as the city’s joint tallest building now includes more urban greening and improved sustainability. Revised plans for One Undershaft include an elevated podium garden on the 11th floor and what would be London’s […]
New Warehouse roof and Gantry (Image credit: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum) Work has begun on a grade II-listed building at Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum, replacing a historic roof the size of two Olympic swimming pools. The New Warehouse, which is more than 140 years old, is the next building to […]
The system uses computer vision and machine learning programs to identify cracks in concrete AI-guided robot assistants could identify and inspect damage to structures and buildings to prevent failures, according to the developers of a new system. Augmenting visual inspection technologies with a new machine learning approach, the team from Drexel University in Pennsylvania created […]
The only way that new ‘green’, efficient, safe housing can be built in the UK at the speed and scale required is if modern methods of construction (MMC) are more widely adopted in the housebuilding market, but the industry needs help to deliver the benefits MMC offer, experts have said. Iain Gilbey and Graham Robinson […]
Climate change is an undeniable force reshaping our world, and the construction industry is not immune to its far-reaching impacts. From the menacing rise in sea levels to unpredictable temperature fluctuations, the challenges posed by climate change necessitate a paradigm shift in our approach to construction. In this article buildingspecifier.com Editor Joe Bradbury delves […]
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