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FeaturesSpecialist costs: Structural steelwork
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 lifts
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
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
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
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
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Cost Model: Structured Cabling
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
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
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
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
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
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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FeaturesSchools - Cost model, April 1994
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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FeaturesFootball Stadia - Cost model, July 1995
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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FeaturesLeisure Centres - Cost model, May 1995
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.
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Nursing Homes - Cost model, September 1995
The average age of Britain’s population is rising. To cope with this demographic shift, new private nursing homes are being built. In the latest in the series of cost models, QS Davis Langdon & Everest examines a £1.5m nursing home in Surrey.
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FeaturesLuxury Hotels - Cost model, April 1996
The hotel industry is emerging from recession with profitability returning to pre-slump levels and developers and operators again looking to expand. QS Davis Langdon & Everest examines teh economics of the top end of the market and analyses a five-star, 100-bed hotel in central London. DLE also reviews cost levels ...
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FeaturesOffice Refurbishments - Cost model, February 1996
Upgrading 20- to 30-year-old offices to give them a new lease of life is one of the few growth areas in the commercial sector. Over the past 12 months, architectural commissions have almost doubled and now account for 28% of the office development market. QS Davis Langdon & Everest looks ...
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FeaturesOffices of the Future - Cost model, September 1996
Businesses in the 1990s are demanding much more from their office space. The growth of flexible working practices, a developing green agenda and the demands of information technology are creating a distinctive office architecture. In this cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest examines the capital costs behind the new generation ...
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PFI Hospitals - Cost model, November 1996
Progress on the private finance initiative has not matched government expectations, but it is currently the only available procurement route for large, publicly funded projects. Cost consultant Davis Langdon & Everest condusts a two-part analysis of the state of the PFI and follows this with a cost model of a ...