Thomas Lane

London

Group Technical Editor at UBM

Group Technical Editor at Housing Today

Editor BD, Group technical editor, Building

Articles

A cauldron on the Mersey: how Everton built their new stadium in just five years (Manchester United take note)

1 month ago | bdonline.co.uk | Thomas Lane

Manchester United has an ambitous plan to rebuild Old Trafford within the same timescale. Everton and BDP Pattern have already done this and delivered its new, £760m stadium on budget and on time with careful planning and extensive use of MMC and digital tools, reports Thomas Lane Notorious for going over budget and failing to complete on time, football stadium construction is a risky business. The Tottenham Hotspur stadium was the last big arena to complete in the UK.
Computational Approaches for Predicting Drug Interactions with Human Organic Anion Transporter 4 (OAT4)

2 months ago | dx.doi.org | Lucy J. Martinez-Guerrero |Patricia A. Vignaux |Joshua Harris |Thomas Lane
Canada Water: Is it a match for Kings Cross?

Mar 10, 2025 | building.co.uk | Thomas Lane

The first phase of British Land’s 53 acre mixed use development in south-east London is almost finished. Thomas Lane went along to have a look Five years after planning was granted, the first phase of British Land’s Canada Water mega regeneration project in south-east London is almost finished.
Digging deep: The radical engineering underpinning Stiff + Trevillion’s 65 Holborn Viaduct project

Feb 18, 2025 | bdonline.co.uk | Thomas Lane

A disused railway station below half of a central London site meant conventional piling was out of the question.
Is it time to stop building in the wildfire affected areas of California?

Jan 24, 2025 | bdonline.co.uk | Thomas Lane

The recent fires in the hills around Los Angeles are the most costly in US history. Does it really make sense to live in these heavily wooded places? Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th US president and his signing of a slew of controversial executive orders has switched the world’s attention from the devastating wildfires in California.
WA100 2025: Western Europe leads on net zero

Jan 22, 2025 | bdonline.co.uk | Thomas Lane

This year Gensler, the world’s biggest practice, saw the number of architects it employs drop below the 3,000 mark, the milestone which it broke through in 2023. The second-placed firm, Arcadis, also saw numbers fall. But these drops mean little when measured against the wider profession; our annual survey of the world’s largest architects reveals the real story is that not much has changed since last year.
BDP usurps Fosters as UK’s biggest architect

Jan 17, 2025 | bdonline.co.uk | Thomas Lane

BDP usurps Fosters as UK’s biggest architect By Thomas Lane2025-01-17T06:00:00 Foster & Partners’ five year reign at top of UK rankings over, according to BD survey of world’s largest practices Foster & Partners has been pushed into second place by BDP after a five year reign as the UK’s largest architectural firm according to the WA100, BD’s international survey of the globe’s 100 largest firms.
Denoising Reveals Low-Occupancy Populations in Protein Crystals

Nov 8, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Alisia Fadini |Thomas Lane |Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY |Virginia Apostolopoulou

AbstractAdvances in structural biology increasingly focus on uncovering protein dynamics and transient or weak macromolecular complexes. Such studies require modeling of low-occupancy species, for instance time-evolving intermediates and bound ligands. In protein crystallography, difference maps that compare paired perturbed and reference datasets are a powerful way to identify and aid modeling of low-occupancy species.
Hinkley Point C: Building Britain’s first nuclear reactor in 30 years

Sep 19, 2024 | nuclear-news.net | Thomas Lane |Christina MacPherson

Hinkley Point C: Building Britain’s first nuclear reactor in 30 years The government revised the strike prices for renewable generation in December 2023, the strike price for offshore wind is £73 and PV £61 so nuclear remains an expensive zero carbon option. The current price for electricity is approximately £83mWhr. Building, By Thomas Lane, 17 September 2024Like its Finnish and French twins, Hinkley Point C has suffered from cost overuns and delays.
Hinkley Point C: Building Britain’s first nuclear reactor in 30 years

Sep 16, 2024 | building.co.uk | Thomas Lane

Like its Finnish and French twins, Hinkley Point C has suffered from cost overuns and delays. What are the team doing to claw back the losses and what does this mean for Sizewell C? Nothing on the drive from Taunton to Hinkley Point C hints at the scale of the project at the destination. The journey is along picturesque minor roads, through woods and up and down steep-sided, intimate valleys before the terrain flattens out to reveal Europe’s largest construction site.