Executive Briefings
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FeaturesMarket overview: Film studios
In the latest of Building Boardroom’s market overviews, Josephine Smit looks at the booming UK film and TV studio sector
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FeaturesThe top 150 contractors league table: The results analysed
A look at the big contractors, where performances in line with expectations and balance sheet strengths rising are good reasons to be cheerful
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FeaturesMarket overview: Later living
In Building Boardroom’s latest market overview, Josephine Smit looks at the later living sector, which in the UK is starting from a small base but has enormous growth potential, especially with a recent rush of investor interest
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FeaturesGovernment policy: end-of-year review
With the parliamentary year having drawn to a close, Building Boardroom looks back on the changes it has brough to government policy on design and construction. Josephine Smit reports
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FeaturesMarket overview: Green travel infrastructure
The latest Building Boardroom market overview examines the move towards active travel infrastructure such as cycleways and pedestrianised thoroughfares, and the variety of funding streams in place to drive this. Josephine Smit reports
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FeaturesMarket overview: Healthcare
With extra funding in the pipeline to build dozens of new hospitals and tackle the rapidly growing maintenance backlog, plus a new procurement framework soon to be in place, healthcare is a major focus for construction this year
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FeaturesThe ‘should cost’ model – its benefits and how to build one
While standard cost models are limited to initial delivery, this new, greener approach – recommended by the government’s construction playbook – extends to whole-life costs (and even carbon), providing a more comprehensive overview of what constitutes good value. By Jonathan Stewart, Sara Boonham, Nicola Herring and James Garner of Gleeds ...
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FeaturesPost covid, what kinds of offices will clients want?
Source: Hufton + Crow The view from the rooftop garden of TP Bennett’s EightyFen, to which Arcadis is moving this summer in order to fit its workspace better to post-pandemic needs Property experts tell Building Boardroom that space requirements won’t shrink significantly, but the type ...
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FeaturesThe Building Safety Regulator: What will it look like?
We talk to Peter Baker, the new chief inspector of buildings about the shape of the new organisation that will oversee building safety
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FeaturesWhole life carbon assessments: What you need to know
The London Plan now requires a whole lifecycle assessment as a condition of planning. We examine the implications for the industry
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FeaturesDoes the QS have a future?
Building Boardroom asks Willmott Dixon’s northern MD and a QS by training, Anthony Dillon, about the changing role of the profession within the industry
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FeaturesWhat the Future Buildings Standard means for the industry
The consultation on reducing energy use in non domestic buildings has been a long time coming. We examine the implications of the main proposals