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FeaturesTop 150 Contractors & Housebuilders 2024: Crunching the data
Beneath the headline rankings of the top 150 contracting and housebuilding firms in the sector, there are more complex stories to tell based on turnover, profit and margins. Here we unpack the figures in more detail
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FeaturesTop 150 Contractors & Housebuilders 2024: Improving prospects or more of the same? Contractors keep eyes peeled for signs of optimism
Contractors hope to see more work get off the ground, but familiar problems provide a nervous backdrop
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FeaturesTop 150 Contractors & Housebuilders 2024: Searching for silver linings in gloomy year for housebuilders
A year of uncertainty and malaise in the housing sector has seen income and profit plunge across this year’s Top 50 rankings. Daniel Gayne looks for silver linings in a gloomy year
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FeaturesTop 150 Contractors & Housebuilders 2024: Top 20 Contractors
Building’s ranking of the Top 20 contractors by turnover
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FeaturesTop 150 Contractors & Housebuilders 2024: Top 50 Housebuilders
Building’s ranking of the Top 20 contractors by turnover
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FeaturesTop 150 Contractors & Housebuilders 2024: Top 20 FM/Services firms
Building’s ranking of the Top 20 facilities management and services firms by turnover
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FeaturesCost model: What solutions are there for low embodied carbon office fit-outs?
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
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FeaturesInfrastructure update: How can developers navigate the ever-lengthening connections queue?
In the second half of our two-part special on UK power, Turner & Townsend Alinea examine how the rising demand for new connections to the distribution network has time and cost impacts for developers.
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FeaturesInfrastructure update: Electricity transmission owners hold key to UK’s energy transition but face challenges
The transmission sector is a key link in the chain that will deliver a net zero future, write Mark Docherty and Simon Rawlinson
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FeaturesProcurement update: data centre development challenges
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?
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Demand is set to rise as the economy stabilises
Demand is set to strengthen as economic stability stimulates a recovery in private sector investment, but contractor capacity is depleted and risk aversion elevated
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FeaturesLondon towers – does it make more sense to build new or renew?
The twin currencies of carbon and cost have encouraged the adaptive reuse of towers, bringing the additional complexity of working within an existing building
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FeaturesTop 150 Consultants 2024: Are we about to see boom time for construction?
This year’s survey shows rapidly increasing optimism on better times ahead for the industry – but will challenges around skills and capacity, global events and macroeconomics hold it back? Carl Brown reports
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FeaturesTop 150 Consultants 2024: The main table
Full sortable data from Building’s ranking of the top 150 consultants in the UK
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CommentTop 150 Consultants 2024: There’s renewed optimism across the construction sector
Challenges persist but the industry appears to have turned a corner and the outlook has notably improved since last year, says Nick Gray of Currie & Brown
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FeaturesTop 50 Engineers 2024
Full sortable data from Building’s ranking of the top 50 engineers in the UK
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FeaturesTop 50 Architects 2024
Full sortable data from Building’s ranking of the top 50 architects in the UK
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FeaturesTop 50 Project Managers 2024
Full sortable data from Building’s ranking of the top 50 project managers in the UK
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FeaturesTop 150 Consultants 2024: What AI and machine learning tools are you using?
This year, Building asked firms for specific examples of AI and machine learning solutions that they have used, and what they learnt. Carl Brown reports
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FeaturesTop 150 Consultants 2024: Where do you stand on hybrid working?
Our survey shows nine in 10 consultants in construction now offer hybrid working, but what models are being adopted? Carl Brown finds out