Technical The Coniston PM decarbonising Grade I-listed buildings In our latest project leader profile, CM talks to Scott Evans from Coniston about retrofitting the historic Royal Institution building in London’s Mayfair
People NFB launches plan to tackle heritage construction skills gap The National Federation of Builders (NFB) has launched a sector skills plan to tackle workforce shortages and protect specialist skills across the heritage and traditional building sector.
People National Theatre launches engineering apprenticeship to mark 50 years of South Bank home The National Theatre (NT) is creating a new engineering apprenticeship to help develop the next generation of building services professionals as it celebrates the 50th anniversary of its landmark South…
News Reusing heritage buildings could create 670,000 new homes, report finds The government could meet a third of its ambitious housing targets by transforming historic buildings for residential use, a report by a cross-party group of MPs has found.
News Willmott Dixon to build new fire station in Bath after ‘unfortunate loss’ of old one Some wanted to save the 1938-built classical Art Deco building but the fire service said it wasn’t fit for purpose.
News Robertson to restore Grade II Henderson Hall after devastating blaze A fire left the former dorms gutted and roofless in 2023.
Technical Madeira Terrace: Restoring Brighton’s cast iron icon It is the longest cast iron structure in Europe. Kristina Smith visits the Victorian-era Madeira Terrace in Brighton, where a painstaking heritage project is under way
News Biggest-ever replica of a Neolithic feasting hall completes at Stonehenge English Heritage today unveiled its £1m reconstruction of a 7m-tall, 4,500-year-old Neolithic hall near Stonehenge.
People Buckingham Palace to expand building surveyor team The Royal Household is recruiting a senior building surveyor to help maintain and decarbonise its historic London estate
Opinion Monument or workshop of democracy? Westminster’s £40bn conundrum The crumbling Palace is too important to be left to rot, but heritage alone can’t justify a full restoration.
Technical Lasdun Wall – the rebirth of a brutalist icon Mace has begun reworking Denys Lasdun’s 1960s modernist landmark at the University of East Anglia into a low carbon teaching and research facility
Legal ‘What are the legal risks on a stadium redevelopment?’ The latest contract clinic question comes from a contractor who has been invited to bid a football ground rebuild
News Morgan Sindall appointed to refurbish historic London leisure centre Morgan Sindall Construction’s London business has begun the refurbishment of the historic Kings Hall Leisure Centre in Hackney, with plans to preserve key features of the Grade II listed building throughout construction.
News In pictures | The best images from December A round-up of the most impressive construction pictures from the past month.
News In pictures | Over 100 historic buildings at risk saved this year Conservation charity Historic England has taken 129 sites from its Heritage at Risk Register, a survey on the health of England’s historic buildings and places.
News Medieval church tower suspended 14m above ground at City high-rise site A 700-year-old church tower will remain suspended almost 14m above ground while Multiplex builds a 36-storey Fifty Fenchurch Street office project in the City of London.
News In pictures | McLaren’s subcontractor restores Ikea Oxford St windows Newly released images show how window refurbishment specialist ASWS restored the facade steel and mansard hardwood windows of the new Ikea store in London’s Oxford Street.
News McAlpine to revamp England’s largest Victorian water tower The specialist heritage arm of Sir Robert McAlpine has been appointed for a £6m restoration of the largest surviving Victorian municipal water tower in England.
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