Project Reports

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

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

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…

Bam tackles tricky ground conditions and a wooden welcome centre for the Royal Horticultural Society, with a design that demands extreme precision  

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

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…

Seeing is believing at the contractor’s mixed-use London scheme, where cutting-edge augmented and virtual reality is integral to works planning

A mixture of cross-laminated and glulam timber is helping transform a north-west London site with a musical history into a six-storey office

Charged with finishing the second of two office towers inherited from Carillion in Manchester, the firm is overcoming a host of legacy issues

A client keen to ‘crack on’, unorthodox funding and a hybrid modular offsite system are combining to deliver a hospital build remarkably quickly