All Data articles – Page 64

  • Features

    Market forecast: Cause for caution

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    In its quarterly look at market trends, Davis Langdon reports on a fall in output that has led to cautious forecasts for 2006. Plus how the pre-Budget report affects the industry and the latest materials prices overleaf

  • Oil prices are sky high at $60 a barrel, which has a knock-on effect on most material costs
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    Hot topic: The pre-Budget report

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    In his pre-Budget report, the chancellor outlined proposals for housing supply and property investment. Davis Langdon examines the impact on UK construction

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    Positive thinking

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    This month's new-look Tracker finds the industry optimistic, according to Experian Business Strategies' construction activity survey. Plus overleaf, Experian's quarterly analysis of orders and output

  • Car manufacturer Mercedes’ showcase building at Brooklands in Surrey has a highly architectural concrete frame. The £3.5m frame was cast in situ using the latest technology
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    Specialist costs: Concrete frames

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    Ian Purton reports on the impact of the new Eurocodes, the increase in post-tensioned flooring and recent cost changes in the sector

  • Insitu piles under construction. Once the auger piling rig has finished creating the hole, steel reinforcement is put in followed by concrete
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    Specialist cost update: Structures

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    In the first of our specialist updates, the expert team at Gardiner & Theobald take a look at current trends and costs in the piling, concrete frame and structural steelwork markets

  • Steel diagrid frames, like this one on London’s Swiss Re, are becomingly increasingly popular because larger clear-span spaces can be created
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    Specialist costs: Structural steelwork

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    The Chinese construction market and the Eurocrats in Brussels are having an effect on the steelwork sector, reports David Cane

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    Spotlight on toilet pods

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Gardiner & Theobald throw the spotlight on modular toilet pods

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    Spotlight on lifts

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    There has been a surge in growth in the elevator and escalator sector in recent years and it now has a market value of £1bn.

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    International costs: 2005

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Gardiner & Theobald’s 13th annual survey looks at how much it’ll cost you to build various buildings around the world, along with labour and inflation rates – plus why China is still the main cost driver

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    Lifetime costs: educational buildings

    2003-11-14T00:00:00Z

    School-building is booming, thanks to the PFI – and firms now have to build with best value rather than lowest price in mind. Peter Mayer of Building Performance demonstrates how to cost a school's whole life

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    International costs: 2003

    2003-02-28T00:00:00Z

    Gardiner & Theobald’s 11th annual survey of global construction costs takes a look at labour rates, building costs, material prices and inflation from Norway to New Zealand

  • Archive Titles

    Cost Model: Structured Cabling

    1999-08-01T00:00:00Z

    In this latest cost model, the Cost Research and Engineering Services Departments of Davis Langdon & Everest and Mott Green & Wall examine the capital costs of structured cabling installations. A number of recent commercial projects have been examined to establish benchmark costs for IT installations.

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    Cost model - Urban Commercial Offices

    1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Background to the model Capital costs for services installations were previously examined in a cost model published in the September 1995 edition of Building Services Journal. The sample of projects the original model was based on were mostly designed prior to the issue of the British Council for Offices (BCO) ...

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    Car Parks - Cost model, December 1993

    1998-12-31T00:00:00Z

    Increasing car ownership and a dramatic rise in thefts and muggings in car parks, together with the recognition that car parks need not be ugly monstrosities, have all contributed to a major rethink of design standards over the past decade.

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    City of London office blocks - Cost model, October 1994

    1998-12-31T00:00:00Z

    Believe it or not, prime office space in the City of London is in short supply. This, combined with improved business confidence, means developers are dusting off schemes they shelved at the start of the recession. Davis Langdon and Everest examines a typical city centre office block.

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    Day Surgery Units - Cost model, June 1994

    1998-12-31T00:00:00Z

    In future, up to half of all surgical operations will be carried out in day-surgery units, the fastest-growing sector of the health care business. Davis Langdon & Everest sets out typical building costs for an NHS trust day-surgery unit, based on £1m live project in East Anglia.

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    Distribution Centres - Cost model, August 1994

    1998-12-31T00:00:00Z

    Continuing advances in stock control and supply patterns are radically changing the UK warehousing and distribution industry - and its buildings. Davis Langdon & Everest

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    Schools - Cost model, April 1994

    1998-12-31T00:00:00Z

    The Education Reform Act of 1988 heralded the start of a dramatic overhaul of the financing and management of schools in England. Its Local Management of Schools provisions forced local education authorities to devolve many aspects of financial management to individual schools. The act also included provisions for schools to ...

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    Football Stadia - Cost model, July 1995

    1998-12-31T00:00:00Z

    Davis Langdon & Everest examines football stadia and considers how an expansion of associated facilities is fast becoming a necessity for Britain’s soccer clubs.

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    Leisure Centres - Cost model, May 1995

    1998-12-31T00:00:00Z

    Sports and leisure centres schemes are being dusted off as the prospect of National Lottery money is regenerating interest in this sector. In the 13th of this continuing series of cost models, QS Davis Langdon & Everest examine multi-use wet/dry leisure centres.