Workstuff: Construction
Online resources to help you at work with the Construction sector.
- Design Boom [web site]
- Graphene-reinforced concrete is a lovely thing. [web page]
- Kenoteq [web site]
- A new harmless lava-like spray coating has the potential to halt flames in their tracks and improve building fire safety. [web page]
- U.S. Army turns to 3D printing to construct new barracks. [web page]
- A family in Virginia has been given the keys to Habitat for Humanity's first 3D-printed house in the United States. [web page]
- IKEA-style ready-to-assemble housing gets a boost with recent corporate merger. [web page]
- COP26 anticipates buildings that can collect more carbon than they release. [web page]
- Cement sector moving closer to a zero carbon solution. [web page]
- Innovative solar panel designs are being developed, ranging from those that can be unrolled to those that can be printed. It implies that the construction of the buildings using them might be altered as well. [web page]
- Dimitris Pikionis (1887–1968) was a Greek painter who lived from 1887 to 1968. [web page]
- The £3.4 billion underwater electrical superhighway between Scotland and northern England is progressing. [web page]
- In Amsterdam, the world's first 3D-printed steel bridge is unveiled. [web page]
- Sverre Fehn revisits the Hedmark Museum in Hamar, Norway. [web page]
- In the Mood for Love's spatial collage cuts across Hong Kong. [web page]
- Contractors intended to reopen the Kent freight route to passengers. [web page]
- Amazonian indigenous tree knowledge. [web page]
- Cut and paste is an editorial technique. [web page]
- Crossrail site access concerns jeopardise station completion, contribute to project costs, and pose the project's "greatest safety risk." [web page]
- The difficulties of constructing Crossrail's Liverpool Street station. [web page]
- A Victorian home in London has been converted into micro-apartments, combining old and new. [web page]
- Is it possible that future skyscrapers will be made of wood? Two new timber towers are under construction. [web page]
- In a High Court dispute, HS2 defends Chilterns tunnelling. [web page]
- Brei Akranes, Iceland, was the winner of the competition. [web page]
- Sorkin, Michael (1948–2020). [web page]
- A Tiny House was created by the United Nations. [web page]
- Rail electrification must be examined in its whole, rather than on a project-by-project basis. [web page]
- Futures of Metropolis: collage creations for a new planet [web page]
- Fernand Pouillon's Climat de France, Algiers is worth revisiting. [web page]
- Amey and Bear Scotland are vying for £1.27 billion in greener road maintenance contracts. [web page]
- The Venice Biennale is an embarrassment. [web page]
- Dudzicki, Richard. [web page]
- HS2 | The repair of Curzon Street station has been halted due to a lack of funds. [web page]
- Following terrible fatalities, Network Rail has taken a multi-pronged strategy to enhancing worker safety. [web page]
- Following the third UK shutdown, eight out of 10 tradesmen report an increase in profits. [web page]
- Greenwashing is a term used by AR Ecologies. [web page]
- Keep in mind what I said earlier: I'm collaging a concept. [web page]
- Four new smart highways will open without the need for additional emergency refuge places. [web page]
- Bio-based building is the last straw. [web page]
- RIS2 should be're-opened,' according to Shapps, since project delays and forced pauses have created uncertainty. [web page]
- How quantum physics might help increase the accuracy of site investigations. [web page]
- The appeal for help from the Kharkiv School of Architecture. [web page]
- Are you sitting comfortably? : a look at the evolution of chair design. [web page]
- Sebastián Arquitectos renovated a village and a chapel in Ruesta, Spain. [web page]
- Amelia Tavella Architects' Saint-François Convent in Corsica. [web page]
- The roads staff at Powys Council is being investigated for anomalies.' [web page]
- Making new stories out of old ones is a kind of imaginative fragmentation. [web page]
- Seabreeze. [web page]
- LifeEdited 2 (LE2), a Manhattan Soho apartment, is for sale! [web page]
- Rania Ghosn's portfolio may be seen at Design Earth. [web page]
- The constructions that contain forgotten goods are known as storage wars. [web page]
- 48 companies have been selected for a £1.5 billion civils and infrastructure framework. [web page]
- Engineering is advancing in regards to gender identity and sexual orientation during Pride Month. [web page]
- Digi-Tech Factory is a company that creates digital products. [web page]
- Leicester City Football Club has announced plans to extend the King Power Stadium. [web page]
- Building Beyond Borders + BC Architects and Studies designed a women's home in Ouled Merzoug, Morocco. [web page]
- The 2023 Ecocity World Summit will be held in London. [web page]
- Wylfa proposals will be scrutinised by Welsh MPs. [web page]
- On a $35K budget, a Taipei microapartment inspired by Muji. [web page]
- Kenyan conservation and capital. [web page]
- The shortlist for the renovation of the Barbican Centre has been released. [web page]
- Hopkins Architects designed a wildlife refuge near Khor Kalba, United Arab Emirates. [web page]
- A court judgement has thrown the plans for a coal mine in Cumbria into disarray. [web page]
- Patrick Bouchain retrospective [web page]
- The collaged cover of the AR's folio. [web page]
- Max Fordham is remembered. [web page]
- Beda Amuli revisits the Kariakoo market in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. [web page]
- Cooking as memory: across stoves and across boundaries. [web page]
- Why should you choose concrete facing bricks? [web page]
- The Netherlands will install miniature nuclear power plants made by Rolls-Royce SMR. [web page]
- Mecanoo's Taichung Green Corridor. [web page]
- With an AR membership, you'll get a complimentary tote bag. [web page]
- Casa Luis Barragán is still standing. [web page]
- Is the projected Cumbrian coal mine capable of significantly reducing the demand for Russian imports? [web page]
- Contractors and consultants are being drawn to the Saudi megacity. [web page]
- Studio Libeskind's Dutch Holocaust Memorial of Names. [web page]
- Publicity: commoning as a survival strategy. [web page]
- Ana Baptista is dedicated to the preservation of community life. [web page]
- Oxford Station Expansion Permission Granted by Network Rail [web page]
- Following the collapse of the Cleveland Bridge, a new contractor has begun work on the Bristol bascule bridge. [web page]
- Kings Cross has taught me a lot. [web page]
- A court has ordered a US couple to pay for tunnel delays. [web page]
- Tom dePaor's 'I See Earth' retrospective is unveiled. [web page]
- The 'LifeEdited 2' (LE2) apartment in Manhattan Soho is for sale! [web page]
- Construction project starts are at their lowest level in almost a decade as the year draws to a close. [web page]
- Paradigma Ariadné's buffalo barn and observation pavilions in Sándorfalva, Hungary. [web page]
- The AR Future Projects award winners for 2022 have been revealed. [web page]
- Natural materials are in AR Reading List 065. [web page]
- Skanska has sponsored a hydrogen device to reduce pollution. [web page]
- On the outskirts of migration. [web page]
- French nuclear weapons testing in the Algerian Sahara. [web page]
- Atkins has announced a data-driven decarbonisation plan for the built environment. [web page]
- Egyptian kushari is one of the recipes being traded. [web page]
- Cooking as a form of protest in Delhi's streets. [web page]
- After overcoming ground difficulties, Farrans is nearing completion on the A1(M) junction project. [web page]
- Network Rail is looking for bidders for a £2 billion building framework. [web page]
- The Top 50 Women in Engineering for 2022 list includes 14 civil engineers. [web page]
- Kristell Filotico and Atelier Roberta's La Friche la Belle de Mai expansion is located in Marseille, France. [web page]
- Lorraine JJ. [web page]