Executive Briefings

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    Market overview: Film studios

    2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

    In the latest of Building Boardroom’s market overviews, Josephine Smit looks at the booming UK film and TV studio sector

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    The top 150 contractors league table: The results analysed

    2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

    A look at the big contractors, where performances in line with expectations and balance sheet strengths rising are good reasons to be cheerful

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    Market overview: Later living

    2021-09-01T05:00:00Z

    In Building Boardroom’s latest market overview, Josephine Smit looks at the later living sector, which in the UK is starting from a small base but has enormous growth potential, especially with a recent rush of investor interest

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    Government policy: end-of-year review

    2021-08-12T05:00:00Z

    With the parliamentary year having drawn to a close, Building Boardroom looks back on the changes it has brough to government policy on design and construction. Josephine Smit reports

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    Market overview: Green travel infrastructure

    2021-07-27T05:00:00Z

    The latest Building Boardroom market overview examines the move towards active travel infrastructure such as cycleways and pedestrianised thoroughfares, and the variety of funding streams in place to drive this. Josephine Smit reports

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    Market overview: Healthcare

    2021-07-01T05:00:00Z

    With extra funding in the pipeline to build dozens of new hospitals and tackle the rapidly growing maintenance backlog, plus a new procurement framework soon to be in place, healthcare is a major focus for construction this year

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    The ‘should cost’ model – its benefits and how to build one

    2021-05-24T05:00:00Z

    While standard cost models are limited to initial delivery, this new, greener approach – recommended by the government’s construction playbook – extends to whole-life costs (and even carbon), providing a more comprehensive overview of what constitutes good value. By Jonathan Stewart, Sara Boonham, Nicola Herring and James Garner of Gleeds ...

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    Post covid, what kinds of offices will clients want?

    2021-04-29T05:00:00Z

    Source: Hufton + Crow The view from the rooftop garden of TP Bennett’s EightyFen, to which Arcadis is moving this summer in order to fit its workspace better to post-pandemic needs Property experts tell Building Boardroom that space requirements won’t shrink significantly, but the type ...

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    The Building Safety Regulator: What will it look like?

    2021-03-25T09:01:00Z

    We talk to Peter Baker, the new chief inspector of buildings about the shape of the new organisation that will oversee building safety

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    Whole life carbon assessments: What you need to know

    2021-03-16T05:00:00Z

    The London Plan now requires a whole lifecycle assessment as a condition of planning. We examine the implications for the industry  

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    Does the QS have a future?

    2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

    Building Boardroom asks Willmott Dixon’s northern MD and a QS by training, Anthony Dillon, about the changing role of the profession within the industry

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    What the Future Buildings Standard means for the industry

    2021-02-01T06:00:00Z

    The consultation on reducing energy use in non domestic buildings has been a long time coming. We examine the implications of the main proposals