Miriam Turner, Assistant Vice President Open Innovation & Product Sustainability for Interface, explains how, by pioneering sustainable ways of working and co-innovating with partners, the construction industry can strive for genuine innovation again.
The Grand Ocean Hotel in Saltdean, near Brighton, epitomises a bygone era of glamourous seaside elegance. First opened in 1938, the Grade II listed building’s crescent-shaped white facade makes it a classic of Art Deco architectural design.
3D laser scanning and CAD modelling offer an important resource for design and construction teams. Where complex geometries are involved, more traditional techniques such as dimensional control may be more appropriate advises Peter Field, Managing Director of Warner Surveys.
American white oak has helped to achieve seamless spatial flow in Zaha Hadid’s Heydar Aliyev Center in Azerbaijan.
