All Buildings, design and specification articles – Page 94
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NewsGrenfell insulation panels failed fire test, inquiry told
Manager at manufacturer Celotex admits marketing of product used in tower’s refurbishment was misleading
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NewsAHMM wins planning for £200m Berkeley Square redevelopment
Lansdowne House is stone’s throw from £600m Piccadilly project which saw AHMM replace Adjaye Associates
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NewsCouncils divided over Bishopsgate Goodsyard development
Hackney says it objects to design despite ‘support in principle’ while Tower Hamlets says project should be approved
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FeaturesGrenfell Inquiry digest | Module one: How experts blamed key players for ‘shambles’
As the first part of the phase two hearings concludes, Jim Dunton examines the evidence so far and finds a litany of major failures, incompetence and buck-passing
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NewsTests for external wall fires based on how flames behave indoors, Grenfell Inquiry hears
Expert witness Barbara Lane queries decades-old testing regime
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NewsPandemic ‘turbocharging’ domestic emissions crisis, RIBA warns government
Architects call for National Retrofit Strategy to counter carbon generated by growth in home working
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FeaturesCPD 10 2020: Daylight design for commercial buildings using structural glazing
This CPD, sponsored by VELUX Commercial, explains how the maximising of daylight through bespoke structural glazing can improve wellbeing and productivity of a building’s occupants as well as cutting energy costs, and sets out the specification considerations
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NewsGrenfell Inquiry: Design-and-build blamed for industry ‘sleepwalking towards serious problems’
Former RIBA president also criticises sloppy attitude, education and failure to learn from previous fires
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NewsDesigners have no idea cladding can be dangerous, Grenfell inquiry told
‘None of us had any idea that there were such dangerous components being incorporated into cladding panels,’ said independent witness Paul Hyett
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NewsStudio E ‘should never have specified Grenfell insulation’
Architect should have known it did not comply with Approved Document B, expert witness tells inquiry
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NewsFire consultant ‘failed Grenfell project team’ on key safety queries
Expert witness says Exova gave wrong answers at a time when designers were asking valid questions
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Building StudyFloating church, Olympic Park, by Denizen Works
In pictures: The congregation will literally be able to raise the roof thanks to a bellows-like innovation
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Information - BDOn demand | Interview with Simone de Gale, CEO, Simone de Gale Architects
On demand: Listen to the discussion between Simone de Gale and Elizabeth Hopkirk
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NewsHackitt warns industry to change now to survive new safety regulator
Failing to plan now ‘morally indefensible’, says chair of board setting up new building safety regulator
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NewsMake post-occupancy evaluation mandatory for public buildings, government told
Architects urgently need to learn from good and bad projects, says RIBA president
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NewsPlanning reforms are ‘big opportunity’ to tear down brutalist buildings, says Jenrick
Housing secretary said pulling down ’mistakes of the recent past’ was one of the reasons he expanded permitted development
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NewsCouncil austerity measures meant inspection corners were cut, Grenfell Inquiry told
Building control officer had 130 projects to keep track of and felt forced to make ‘judgments’ about whose work needed most focus
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NewsGrenfell Inquiry: Window reveal contractor ‘assumed materials were fine’
Former Rydon project manager oversaw gaps being packed with combustible insulation then topped with uPVC surrounds
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NewsIn pictures: Victorian Society’s top 10 at-risk buildings revealed
List ‘both upsetting and enlightening’, says group’s president
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