Project Reports

How Edinburgh’s glasshouse project has weathered the COVID crisis

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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…

Netflix and steel: preserving a building that’s seen it all

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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

Delivering a vital vaccine production centre a year early

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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

Renovating the unknown as Priestley converts an ‘inaccessible’ listed building

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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…

Hylo: how Mace is extending a 1960s skyscraper

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Sustainability is front of mind on a Silicon Roundabout-located scheme that seeks to retain as much concrete as possible from the existing structure

Building ‘Asbestos-free Valley’: students reclaim Wolverhampton from Carillion

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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…