Reach for the Sky: Bam Construct remakes Hollywood in Hertfordshire
It’s lights, camera, construction at a new TV and film production centre that promises to be the most environmentally friendly in the world. Paul Thompson reports
22 Sep 2021 Comments Off on Reach for the Sky: Bam Construct remakes Hollywood in Hertfordshire
It’s lights, camera, construction at a new TV and film production centre that promises to be the most environmentally friendly in the world. Paul Thompson reports
11 Aug 2021 Comments Off on Fortifying Norwich Castle – how Morgan Sindall is preserving an East Anglian favourite
The transformation of Norwich Castle into a modern visitor attraction has required care to safeguard its 900-year-old structure, though with 3-metre-thick walls it is far from fragile. Paul Thompson reports.
25 Jun 2020 Comments Off on How Edinburgh’s glasshouse project has weathered the COVID crisis
Despite disruption to its funding streams, a pandemic wreaking havoc on its usual footfall, and Scotland's construction shutdown, the Edinburgh Biomes project – a revamp of the city’s botanic garden – is still very much supported. Megan Kelly talks to a RBGE trustee to find out how this £70m scheme…
17 Jun 2020 Comments Off on Netflix and steel: preserving a building that’s seen it all
A stately home, military intelligence centre, college, film backdrop and open building site – Wentworth Woodhouse has a fascinating 290-year history. Ian Weinfass visited the project to see how a contractor is using innovative techniques to breath new life into the derelict building
28 Apr 2020 Comments Off on Delivering a vital vaccine production centre a year early
Safely carrying out building work amid social distancing restrictions is not easy. Doing it while delivering a project one year early is another challenge altogether. Ian Weinfass speaks to people involved in building a vaccine-production facility described by ministers as a vital tool in the fight against COVID-19
15 Apr 2020 Comments Off on Renovating the unknown as Priestley converts an ‘inaccessible’ listed building
Project: Conditioning House Client: Priestley Homes Contractor: Priestley Construction Architect: Priestley Design Structural engineer: Dunster Consulting Building control: Bureau Veritas UK M&E consultant: Troup Bywaters & Anders Fire consultant: Leodis Consultants Start date: May 2019 Completion date: December 2020 (pre-coronavirus schedule) Just six months before Bradford’s Conditioning House mixed-use conversion…
08 Apr 2020 Comments Off on Bam tackles timber and builds a new lake as RHS gardens re-emerge from the mud
Bam tackles tricky ground conditions and a wooden welcome centre for the Royal Horticultural Society, with a design that demands extreme precision
01 Apr 2020 Comments Off on Hylo: how Mace is extending a 1960s skyscraper
Sustainability is front of mind on a Silicon Roundabout-located scheme that seeks to retain as much concrete as possible from the existing structure
25 Mar 2020 Comments Off on Building ‘Asbestos-free Valley’: students reclaim Wolverhampton from Carillion
Project: Springfield campus – School of Architecture and Built Environment Client: University of Wolverhampton Contractor: ISG Contract value: £26m Contract type: Pagabo Framework Architect: Associated Architects Start date: October 2018 Completion: May 2020 At an old brewery site in Wolverhampton, an excavator chugs across the rubble, raising its bucket to…
18 Mar 2020 Comments Off on Multiplex puts on a show at The Broadway using the latest tech
Seeing is believing at the contractor’s mixed-use London scheme, where cutting-edge augmented and virtual reality is integral to works planning