All Cost model articles – Page 8

  • Improvement to schools, resulting in high-quality schemes such as this primary school in Cheshire built by Willmott Dixon, is a significant cost driver
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    Cost model update, February 2005

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    In this special cost model update, Davis Langdon looks at 18 building types – including offices, stadiums, theatres, schools, hospitals, housing and supermarkets – and adds the latest figures and current cost drivers

  • The solid facade of Plantation Place, viewed  here from Great Tower Street, illustrates a possible solution to meeting the new Part L
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    Cost model: Office design

    2004-12-10T00:00:00Z

    After a few belt-tightening years, the City of London’s commercial sector is on the up again. In this cost model, Davis Langdon and Mott Green Wall examine the current market and recent advances in office design – and break down the costs of a high-quality, mid-rise City scheme

  • The MoD’s £2bn single-living accomodation module (SLAM) programme makes extensive use of volumetric units
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    Cost model: Off-site manufacture

    2004-10-22T00:00:00Z

    The market for off-site manufacture is expanding rapidly, boosted as it is by public sector investment programmes. Davis Langdon looks at the cost benefits, barriers to innovation and procurement issues involved in OSM

  • Sainsbury's distribution centre in Stoke-on-Trent illustrates how distribution has become a key part of the diversification of products sold in supermarkets
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    Cost model: Distribution centres

    2004-08-06T00:00:00Z

    The distribution centre sector is buzzing at the moment, as businesses rush to outsource their goods-handling to logistics firms, and supermarkets adopt just-in-time delivery systems. Here we look at the key issues in affecting distribution centres – and, more importantly, breaks down how much one would cost

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    Cost study: Belgrave house

    2004-07-30T00:00:00Z

    Developer Grosvenor Estate wanted a sleek office block that could hold its own opposite London’s Victoria Station and attract firms from the West End and the City. Cost consultant EC Harris, architect Squire and Partners and contractor Sir Robert McAlpine explain how the project team achieved all this at 4% ...

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    Cost model: Football stadiums

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Developers are in the grip of football fever, building iconic stadiums that will revive out-of-town areas. We look at the challenges in design, security and crowd control and highlights the retail and hospitality potential

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    Cost study: Scottish gas headquarters

    2004-05-14T00:00:00Z

    Built on a former gasworks (appropriately), Scottish Gas’ HQ is an elegant and energy-efficient addition to Edinburgh’s rapidly changing waterfront. Architect Foster and Partners, environmental engineer Battle McCarthy and cost consultant Davis Langdon explain how they did it.

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    Cost model: Office refurbishment

    2004-04-16T00:00:00Z

    Although recovery in the commercial market may be just around the corner, canny developers are already active generating good returns in refurbishment. Here Davis Langdon & Everest and Mott Green Wall look at the opportunities and constraints in bringing existing buildings bang up to date

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    Cost model: Affordable housing

    2004-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Planning guidance on affordable housing quotas in private schemes has got developers and contractors scratching their heads and crunching their numbers. Here, Davis Langdon & Everest eases their pain …

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    Cost model: PFI hospitals

    2003-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Capital investment is pouring into the NHS and the prognosis for improved performance is good. In this month’s cost model examine the aims of the hospital programme, probe design issues, and break down the price of adding a trauma unit to an existing hospital

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    Cost model: Urban design and infrastructure

    2003-10-10T00:00:00Z

    Proposals for new communities in the South-east, and the redevelopment of existing urban sites will require large-scale investment in site infrastructure. In this month’s cost model, we examine the cost and value drivers associated with infrastructure and site amenities

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    Cost model: Offices

    2003-09-12T00:00:00Z

    Sustainability issues are rapidly rising up the corporate agenda. We consider the impact of sustainability measures on commercial buildings and reveal that going green need not cost the earth

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    Cost study: Chemistry building, Queen Mary University

    2003-07-18T00:00:00Z

    The design of a laboratory is an exercise in technical virtuosity married to an understanding of the social dynamics of a community of undergraduates and researchers. Architect Sheppard Robson, QS Turner & Townsend and contractor Geoffrey Osborne tackled one such demanding brief at Queen Mary University in London – here’s ...

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    Cost model: Supermarkets

    2003-06-13T00:00:00Z

    Supermarkets are among the UK’s top 10 construction clients. In this cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest and Mott Green Wall examine the costs, specification and procurement of new build and existing stores

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    Cost study: Chipping Norton leisure centre

    2003-03-14T00:00:00Z

    The community of Chipping Norton was sorely missing a place to exercise. Architect Feilden Clegg Bradley brought the town right up to date with a design that favoured local materials and sunlight

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    Cost model update, February 2003

    2003-02-07T00:00:00Z

    Building cost models are celebrating their 10th birthday. To mark this happy event, we outlines the factors that will be affecting costs in 2003 for 17 of the most common building types

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    Cost study: Max Perutz lecture theatre

    2003-01-31T00:00:00Z

    The Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge had nowhere for its Nobel Prize-winning scientists to present their research. So architect Feilden + Mawson and quantity surveyor Keegans created an auditorium extension on stilts – and here they reveal the details of how it was done

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    Cost model: High-rise housing refurbishment

    2002-12-13T00:00:00Z

    The government is reappraising the UK’s social housing in order to meet its decent homes target by 2010. Here, Davis Langdon & Everest examines the costs, key issues and associated problems of refurbishing a tower block

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    Cost model: 21st-century university building

    2002-11-01T00:00:00Z

    The government wants 50% of 18-30-year-olds to be educated to degree level by 2010, and expects universities to compete in international research markets. So what buildings are required to help meet these objectives? In its latest cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest examines the 21st-century university building

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    Cost study: Phoenix Natural Gas HQ

    2002-10-18T00:00:00Z

    Northern Ireland’s gas supplier didn’t want to have to pay astronomical energy bills, fall behind and end up suing itself for its own money. Cartwright Pickard Architects and QS Gardiner & Theobold explain how the team managed to avert this fate by delivering a building that not only achieved a ...