All articles by Daniel Gayne – Page 12
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      NewsHS2 eyeing 2030 completion date for Phase 1
Interim chair also criticises contractors’ cost-plus contracts, saying they don’t give ‘me any real levers’ for firms to improve performance
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      NewsNew Bradford train station proposal given funding boost
Money will be spent on masterplanning for revived scheme
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      NewsRachel Maclean sacked as housing minister
Sector calls for stability as Maclean leaves as part of Sunak’s reshuffle after just nine months in the post
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      NewsLocal practice wins approval for life sciences hub near Cambridge
BCR Infinity’s scheme to complete in 2025
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      NewsNorthern Powerhouse Rail safeguarded as HS2 bill set to progress despite cancellation
Phase 2b legislation included in government’s legislative agenda
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      NewsGreen light for hotel conversion of listed warehouse in Edinburgh’s UNESCO World Heritage Site
O’Donnell Brown’s retrofit will improve energy performance of building
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      NewsPlans to transform central London ‘flatiron’ office approved
Damion Marcus Burrows Architects-designed scheme to add two floors to 1880s built Flitcroft House
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      NewsGreen light for Cooper Cromar’s £60m transformation of listed Glasgow tower
Met Tower scheme will deliver more than 200,000 sq ft of office space
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      NewsPatel Taylor’s £300m Wembley housing scheme approved
Plans to deliver 500 homes were amended to meet second staircase rules
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      NewsRSHP to transform UK’s biggest Victorian gasworks cluster into 2,100-home neighbourhood
First phase of Berkeley scheme will deliver 600 homes
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      NewsScottish council pauses Passivhaus scheme due to soaring costs
Homes designed by Smith Scott Mullan Associates were costing over a third more than standard equivalents
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      NewsBDP submits masterplan for Swansea eco-homes
Proposals would see 159 timber frame council homes built
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      FeaturesLabour Party conference: Key takeaways and talking points
Amid uncertainty around commitments to net zero and infrastructure investment, the opposition set out its stall for the coming election. Daniel Gayne and Thomas Lowe report
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      NewsBurnham says pre-covid rail plan for the north should be built in full
Mayor’s comments come as shadow rail minister questions “implications” of government handling of HS2
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      NewsHS2 Euston cut further with reprieved station to feature just six platforms
Original design had proposals for 11 platforms in order to cope with capacity for now abandoned route to Manchester
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      NewsConservative Party conference: UK’s schools must be designed to last 100 years, says RIBA president
The leader of the body, which launched its manifesto this week, was speaking at a fringe event on the RAAC crisis
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      NewsSunak scraps HS2 Birmingham to Manchester leg
Savings to be spent on ‘hundreds’ of smaller projects, while Euston link to go ahead under new management
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      NewsConservative Party conference: axe looms over HS2, ministers side-step awkward questions and business leaders despair
As row over country’s biggest infrastructure project escalates, Daniel Gayne reports on a downbeat mood in Manchester
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      NewsAI challenge requires new ‘rules of engagement’, says Fosters research chief
Machine learning need not replace architects, Martha Tsigkari tells Building the Future Commission conference
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      NewsCollapse that sparked school closures caused by bearing failure, says DfE official
Number of schools to identify problem concrete rises to 174
 
    
     





