Design

New technical guidance from the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) emphasises the importance of allowing adequate spacing between building services in projects using traditional approaches, modern methods of construction (MMC) and design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA). BESA Technical Bulletin (TB56/1.1) ...

Mitakshi Sirsi, Director of Sustainability, Broadway Malyan (pictured left) and William Poole-Wilson, Founder and Managing Director, WILL+Partners (pictured right) discuss how the construction industry and architecture & design firms can help improve sustainable outcomes in the built environment This article ...

Responding to challenges emerging from the pandemic and the accelerating need for the built environment to respond to climate change, the British Council for Offices (BCO) has released an early update to its Guide to Specification, which provides expert advice on ...

Orgatec, the celebration of office design returned for 2022 after a hiatus due to the COVID pandemic. The halls of the Cologne Messe were bustling once again with plenty of fresh ideas in workplace design Hybrid working was unsurprisingly a ...

The London Design Festival celebrated an impressive 20 years in 2022, with the usual mix of museum exhibits, installations, exhibition and talks programmes. Helen Parton reports Among the highlights of the festival was a thought-provoking discussion on the Power of ...

Facilities management provider 14forty, which is part of Compass Group UK & Ireland, has opened a new restaurant with online retailer, N Brown Group plc. The new restaurant at N Brown’s Shaw distribution centre in Oldham was an integral part of ...

Most companies remain uncertain about what their post-pandemic workplaces will look like according to new research released by the Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM) and office furniture company, MillerKnoll. The research, titled ‘The future of office design’ invited ...

PlanRadar, a leading digital construction, real estate and facilities management platform, has published a new report on emerging trends set to dominate the global specification community. The Architecture of the Future is the first in a series of specially-produced architecture ...

Bruntwood SciTech has appointed SPIE UK to deliver design and refurbishment services at the UK’s largest single site life sciences campus, Alderley Park in Cheshire. Under the terms of the nine-month contract, SPIE will be carrying out a wide range ...

Clerkenwell Design Week returned properly for the first time since 2019 and the event truly delivered in terms of trends Over 140 world-class design showrooms partnered with CDW from 24-26 May, where visitors to the festival in London’s EC1 area ...