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Keep up to date2024-03-12T05:00:00+00:00By Jake Hurst and Simon Rawlinson
PFAS contamination is impacting brownfield projects, but robust risk management can help developers bring forward sites even as regulations are tightened up
2024-01-11T06:00:00+00:00By Michael Hubbard
As we head into the new year, input costs are levelling off – in terms of materials at least – but as new orders become patchier, market competition is rising
2023-10-05T06:01:00+01:00By Michael Hubbard
Against a poor economic backdrop, construction output is holding up in every sub-sector except housing. However there are still reasons to be worried.
2023-07-05T06:00:00+01:00By Michael Hubbard
The ongoing economic backdrop of elevated interest rates is increasingly impacting construction
2023-04-19T06:00:00+01:00By Michael Hubbard
Construction output has been on the up, but can this continue in the face of economic uncertainty? Housebuilding in particular looks set for a fall
2023-01-10T07:00:00+00:00By Michael Hubbard
The UK is now clearly heading into recession but strong momentum in construction output should help to insulate our sector, despite only slightly slowing cost pressures
2022-11-11T07:00:00+00:00By Michael Hubbard
As building costs soar, yearly tender price increases are close to double figures – but that should slow next year. And while construction output is still rising overall, there is greater fragmentation
2022-08-03T05:00:00+01:00By Michael Hubbard
Output has recovered almost to pre-pandemic levels, but optimism is falling in the face of inflation, recruitment challenges and red tape
2022-05-09T06:00:00+01:00By Michael Hubbard
Output is levelling off as the Ukraine war and Chinese covid lockdowns hit confidence. Meanwhile, the same factors are adding inflationary pressures
2022-02-10T07:00:00+00:00By Michael Hubbard
As output rebounds, building costs are soaring at double-digit rates thanks to a variety of inflationary pressures, sending tender prices upwards
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2024-02-22T07:00:00+00:00By John Setra
John Setra of construction management specialists K2CM argues for an alternative to the design and build method of procuring substantial projects
2024-02-14T05:00:00+00:00By Will Goring and Philip Johnson
Today’s sports stadiums face new challenges and require redeveloping for audiences in a diverse and sustainable way. Will Goring of Turner & Townsend Alinea and Philip Johnson of Populous outline the issues.
2023-12-08T07:00:00+00:00By Sophia Stylianou and Anthony Hume
Hotels are competing as somewhere to stay and as places to see and be seen. Delivering sustainable, health-conscious and imaginatively designed spaces is the challenge
2023-11-03T09:00:00+00:00By Turner & Townsend Alinea
T&T Alinea compare recent high-rise history in two global cities whose skylines have undergone dramatic change, including the costs of a typical tall office building in each
2023-10-17T06:00:00+01:00By Brian Smith, Mark Claridge and Patrick McNamara
Multiple pathways are emerging to support the development of low-carbon offices, whether through new-build or, increasingly, reuse and adaptation
2023-09-18T06:00:00+01:00By Simon Rawlinson and Neal Curtis
A slowdown in the for-sale housing market has resulted in a surge of interest in partnership models aimed at delivering affordable housing
2023-06-15T06:00:00+01:00By Alison Wring
Life science labs are in high demand. Identifying the right spaces to nurture innovation – and fitting them out flexibly and sustainably – offers opportunities
2023-05-24T06:00:00+01:00By Ian Goodridge and Ross Baylis
The latest trends in international construction markets amid a global economic environment of rising inflation and a strengthening of the US dollar
2023-04-25T06:00:00+01:00By Rory Armstrong and Steven Jenkins
Aecom’s Rory Armstrong and Steven Jenkins explain what’s happening in the tertiary education sector and offer a cost model of a typical building