All Building Design articles in April 2020 – Page 3
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NewsReader survey: How is the continuing lockdown affecting your business?
With government saying controls will last at least three more weeks, Building Design wants to hear about your experiences
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NewsProfession rallies round national effort to 3D print PPE for NHS
Meanwhile Fosters advocates faster laser-cutting technique and open-sources prototype
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NewsBDP hospital opens a year early to support coronavirus patients
£350m hospital was due to open next spring
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FeaturesEverything you need to know about furloughing, unfurloughing and rotating staff
Employment lawyer Alex Watson outlines the dos and don’ts
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NewsGovernment urged to rip up planning rules to help covid recovery
London Property Alliance calls for extension to consents and flexibility on planning obligations
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NewsHuge boost as government tells HS2 to start work
Approved projects include Moxon and Grimshaw viaducts
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OpinionA short history of epidemics and their impact on the built environment
Covid-19 is a new experience for us but there are clues all around to previous outbreaks which our forebears endured
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NewsHousing secretary approves ZHA’s largest UK project on appeal
Twin towers at Vauxhall Cross will reach 185m, breaching local plan
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FeaturesCPD 3 2020: Designing daylight solutions for commercial buildings
This CPD, sponsored by VELUX Commercial, looks at how lighting affects health and wellbeing for those working in offices, hotels, transport and industrial buildings
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NewsZHA among big practices putting staff on furlough
Leading architects say they are using chancellor’s scheme and cutting wages - but some are still winning work
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FeaturesCoronavirus: What next for architecture?
Britain embraced an architectural vision of a better world after the shock of WWII. Ike Ijeh asks if coronavirus might have the same effect
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NewsRIBA appoints new board of trustees after governance review
Lawyer, banker and art historian join architects on oversight body
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NewsBDP lands role on Manchester’s covid hospital
Architect now understood to be working on six surge facilities around the country
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NewsBDP principal who led NHS Nightingale design is recovering from covid-19
Surge hospital began taking first patients on Tuesday
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TechnicalNHS Nightingale: How we built a hospital in 10 days
As the first patients arrive at London’s coronavirus surge hospital, BDP’s James Hepburn tells Elizabeth Hopkirk how they designed it
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OpinionThe Coach: This is not the new normal
We’re not just #WFH, we’re dealing with an unprecedented global crisis. Louise Rodgers provides guidance on dealing with difficult emotions while staying productive
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NewsFosters furloughs staff and announces practice-wide paycuts
Foster Partners is first major architect to announce the covid-related measures
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NewsBattersea contractor begins to reopen sites with vastly reduced workforce
Mace shut construction sites two weeks ago