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2025-06-12T07:00:00+01:00By Turner & Townsend Alinea
Construction accounts for around a third of all waste sent to landfill, much of this at a building’s end of life. How can the industry develop a better approach to deconstruction?
2025-04-09T06:00:00+01:00By Pablo Cristi Worm
Global uncertainty, combined with domestic regulatory change, a fragile demand outlook and expectations around inflation are combining to create tricky conditions. It’s a finely balanced equation with many moving parts. Pablo Cristi Worm of Aecom reports
2025-01-13T07:00:00+00:00By Brian Smith
With capacity depleted, cost pressures have resurfaced as demand has strengthened – but with interest rates set to stay high, slowing demand growth may help smooth the transition
2024-10-07T06:00:00+01:00By Brian Smith
Demand is set to strengthen as economic stability stimulates a recovery in private sector investment, but contractor capacity is depleted and risk aversion elevated
2024-07-11T07:00:00+01:00By Brian Smith
Rising materials prices could cause capacity pinch-points. And where spare capacity exists, intense competition could put margins under greater pressure. Brian Smith of Aecom reports
2024-04-11T06:00:00+01:00By Michael Hubbard
Construction output is falling steadily as high interest rates sap demand, though repair and maintenance is propping up the sector. Despite materials costs rising less rapidly, tender prices are still on the 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
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2025-06-05T06:00:00+01:00By Paul Wilcock, Nick Jones, Patrick Clarke and Channa Karunaratne
The government has committed to ambitious housebuilding goals but risks overlooking the supporting infrastructure demands and costs
2025-05-13T06:00:00+01:00By Ian Goodridge and Christian Betts
International construction cost trends as the world reacts to US tariffs amid persistent inflation and high borrowing costs
2025-04-03T06:00:00+01:00By Jim Gillen, Jody Wilkinson and Benjamin Stroud
Private investment is driving change, and meeting sustainability demands within strict time, cost and labour limitations is the challenge
2025-02-10T07:00:00+00:00By Turner & Townsend Alinea
Capacity issues within the NHS are driving innovative ways of working. This cost model looks at the advantages and costs of surgical hubs and barn theatres
2024-12-02T07:04:00+00:00By Lauren Lemcke, Danielle Rowley and Dave Cheshire
Office fit-outs score poorly on whole-life emissions, because short tenancies lead to repeated refitting. Aecom’s Lauren Lemcke, Danielle Rowley and Dave Cheshire report on new solutions
2024-10-09T06:00:00+01:00By James Halse and Simon Rawlinson
Data centre clients are scaling up to deliver ever bigger programmes – so, what are the main client types and the specific procurement challenges in this sector?
2024-08-19T07:00:00+01:00By James Barton and Edward Steiger
The implications of the legislation, a look at real-world applications, and a notional model for cost increases on a higher-risk building
2024-06-13T07:00:00+01:00By Turner & Townsend Alinea
With the demand for data storage soaring, the construction industry must find ways to rise to this challenge efficiently and sustainably, against a background of land and energy scarcity
2024-05-15T06:00:00+01:00By Ian Goodridge and Christian Betts
What are the latest trends in international construction costs as we move into what is likely to be a pivotal moment in the recovery of the sector globally?