CONSTRUCTION MANAGER MANAGER CONSTRUCTION | NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2020 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2020 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER For members of the CIOB constructionmanagermagazine.com | WWW.CONSTRUCTIONMANAGERMAGAZINE.COM POST-PANDEMIC OFFICE POST-PANDEMIC THE POST- PANDEMIC OFFICE HOW WILL WORKPLACES CHANGE AFTER COVID? OLD ADMIRALTY REFURB | BIM AND FIT OUT | STRUCTURAL STEEL DESIGN AWARDS 01.CMNov20.Cover.indd 1 20/10/2020 16:31 VELUX INTEGRA® just got smarter Normally retailing at £220, you can claim a FREE VELUX ACTIVE with NETATMO kit when making a purchase of VELUX INTEGRA® electric or solar roof windows* between August and December this year, on top of up to £30 in VELUX Rewards. 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News Email [email protected] 8,000 tonne cantilever hoisted into place An 8,000 tonne, 227m-long cantilever whose structural steel weighs more than the iron in the Eiffel Tower, has been lifted into place to join together two towers in Dubai. The Link forms part of developer Ithra Dubai’s One Za’abeel mixed-use project. Main contractor Alec Engineering and Contracting embraced 4D modelling with Bentley’s Synchro for the project, which it was claimed knocked 70 days off the programme and saved £12.5m. Bricklaying robot builds three bedroom house An automatic bricklaying machine developed by Pocklington-based Construction Automation is constructing the first home in the UK to be built by a robot. The Automatic Brick Laying Robot (ABLR) Manmade concrete brick started work on the three-bedroom home in aims to save marine life Everingham in Yorkshire Marine ecologists have developed an innovative this week. It will lay all the concrete brick that is designed to mimic natural rock bricks, blocks, and mortar. and coral. The ECOncrete range of products have Only two people are been designed to enhance biodiversity and marine required to work on each and coastal infrastructure on urban coastlines. house – a labourer to load The business was founded by marine ecologists the machine and a skilled Dr Shimrit Perkol-Finkel and Dr Ido Sella and person to install tie bars, produces custom-made bricks for each location damp courses and lintels to encourage growth of flora and fauna. and to do the pointing. 4 | CONSTRUCTION MANAGER NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2020 04_05.CMNov2020.newsopener_scW.indd 4 19/10/2020 18:21 constructionmanagermagazine.com NEWS Seagull downs drone A seagull attacked a drone being used for a roof survey of Stranraer Academy in Scotland. It caused the 6kg device to crash, according to a report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch. BAM Nuttall builds new Dawlish sea wall BAM Nuttall has built a new sea wall in Marine Parade, Dawlish, Devon after the existing defences were battered to the point of failure, threatening the main railway route into the south west. The new sea wall involved the construction of concrete foundations to house a precast nib section during short tidal windows. A separate precast facing panel sits in the nib, tied to the existing wall behind. The void between Kier trials road airbags to protect workers the existing wall and Kier Highways is to trial a new airbag in the Midlands that protects workers and facing panels was then warns drivers that work is underway. The large, bright airbags can be inflated in infilled with ready-mixed under 10 minutes. Kier started using the barrier on a slip road at the A45/A46 concrete before a paving Stivichall interchange in Coventry in October. The £95,700 cost of the airbags concrete was laid on trial was met through the Highways Agency’s Designated Funds programme. top to create a widened pedestrian walkway. Skanska builds UK’s first Dutch-style roundabout Skanska has completed the UK’s first Dutch-style roundabout, which prioritises pedestrians and cyclists over motorists. The works to redesign the existing roundabout at the junction of Queen Edith’s Way and Fendon Road in Cambridge were delivered by Skanska on behalf of Cambridgeshire County Council. 2020 Art of Building photography competition launches The world’s biggest photography competition for the built environment, the Art of Building, has launched. The competition is free to enter and open to anyone aged 18 or over. Entries can be made from 12 October 2020 until 15 November 2020. Winners will be announced on 26 January 2021. There are two awards to be won: the £1,500 Judges’ Prize, chosen by the judges, and the £1,500 Public Choice Award chosen by the public through an online vote. Last year’s winners included Pedro Luis Ajuriaguerra Saiz, a professional photographer from northern Spain, who was awarded the Judges’ Prize for capturing Hemisferic, a science museum in Valencia (pictured). For more details about the competition and to enter, log on to www.artofbuilding.org. CONSTRUCTION MANAGER NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2020 | 5 04_05.CMNov2020.newsopener_scW.indd 5 19/10/2020 18:21 NEWS constructionmanagermagazine.com ‘Super clerk of works’ “The ICA would identify the information required and check to monitor golden thread that project elements have been satisfactorily installed and the CIOB-LED COMPETENCE WORKING GROUP SAYS NEW ‘INDEPENDENT relevant information captured, CONSTRUCTION ASSESSOR’ WOULD HELP FACILITATE HACKITT’S using digital technology” PROPOSAL FOR MANAGING PROJECT INFORMATION. BY NEIL GERRARD Pete Dawber, CIOB ‘golden thread’ of information, which The four key “The ICA is not personally going to Dame Judith Hackitt recommended elements in sign off the work; they are specifying should run through projects following the CSG’s and collating the data, and confirming her independent review of Building proposed they have all the necessary informa- Regulations and fire