For those starting out in building services, the learning curve can seem daunting. Max McCone shares his career journey on a major airport project, and shows how experience and mentoring can send careers into the stratosphere
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Home advantage: Everton Football Club’s new stadium
Everton Football Club’s new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock is nearing completion, showcasing cutting-edge digital design and modern construction methods. Andy Pearson reports
Out of site: modular heat pump solutions
With site accommodation contributing significantly to construction projects’ carbon footprints, engineers on a £227m residential scheme at Wembley Park have come up with a modular heat pump solution that cut operation carbon by 14 tonnes in six months, as Solaris Energy’s Daniel Large explains to Andy Pearson
‘Design and build will have to change’: impact of the building safety regulations
The Building Safety Regulator tells CIBSE’s golden thread event that design and build contracts in their current state cannot be used for higher-risk buildings. Molly Tooher-Rudd looks at how the procurement route will have to evolve to comply with new regulations
What Covid-19 might mean for construction
We are all focused on the immediate impact of the coronavirus emergency – but we need to look forward, too, says Hywel Davies