All Market features articles – Page 5

  • Landmarks
    Features

    Where will the UK be in 2030?

    2015-11-11T12:48:00Z

    In the week of the publication of Global Construction 2030, ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø was given exclusive access to the report’s findings, and the answers are not necessarily what you’d expect

  • Pinnacle
    Features

    Commercial developments: Playing catch-up

    2015-11-04T06:00:00Z

    Office construction is at its highest point since the credit crunch. So why aren’t the main players full of confidence for the future?

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    Features

    Market forecast: A change of mood

    2015-10-29T06:00:00Z

    With demand outstripping supply, selectivity was the dominant theme for contractors this year. And a failure to attract tenderers led to more creative approaches to procurement. But will these changes be lasting or is this just the current stage of a cyclical process?

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    Features

    Housing: Home delivery

    2015-10-28T10:18:00Z

    While politicians wrangle over the number of homes they propose to build, housing stock is falling woefully behind the UK’s needs

  • ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Live
    Features

    Infrastructure: Hitting home

    2015-10-16T06:00:00Z

    In the first of a series of articles leading up to the ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Live conference, Joey Gardiner reports on the opportunities in infrastructure

  • Heathrow perimeter fence
    Features

    Davies report: Will it fly?

    2015-07-08T10:34:00Z

    Howard Davies’ Airports Commission has come down emphatically in favour of a third runway at Heathrow, but the politics are so fraught and planning issues so labyrinthine that a final decision still looks a long way off

  • ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø-Osborne-index
    Features

    Budget preview: Ace up Osborne's sleeve?

    2015-07-01T06:01:00Z

    Freed from the shackles of coalition government, chancellor George Osborne will be outlining some quite different policies and priorities when he presents his emergency Budget next week

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    Features

    Foresight saga

    2015-06-12T09:47:00Z

    QSs are supposed to price a job accurately and de-risk procurement. But some clients are wondering what they’re paying them for

  • Devolution-index
    Features

    The centre cannot hold

    2015-06-04T06:00:00Z

    Our Inside Westminster series continues with a look at the government’s plans to devolve powers to mayor-led cities and regions

  • Schools
    Features

    Schools: Where are they all going to sit?

    2015-05-28T06:00:00Z

    25% more new school places will be needed in the next five years than the previous five, yet the government is cutting overall capital funding by 16%

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    Features

    It’s time to fix the housing crisis

    2015-05-22T00:00:00Z

    With a dire shortage of homes in the country, what has the government got to do to get housing working again?

  • Inside Westminster
    Features

    Inside Westminster: Bringing the house down

    2015-05-14T06:00:00Z

    Costs are being estimated for the critical repair job needed to the Houses of Parliament - with some suggesting the Palace of Westminster has just 20 years before it’s unusable

  • New UK Housing
    Features

    Inside Westminster: Housing by numbers

    2015-04-30T06:00:00Z

    In this election’s battle of the building stats, a major focus has been that worryingly few houses have been built in the last five years. But is this the coalition’s fault? Could other parties do better?

  • The Farrell Review
    Features

    The Farrell Review: Into the long grass?

    2015-04-02T06:00:00Z

    One year on from the publication of Terry Farrell’s review of architecture and the built environment, it’s time to see whether the government is prepared to support good design - or whether it will favour continued procrastination

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    Features

    Inside Westminster: One for the road

    2015-03-20T06:00:00Z

    Continuing our series looking at construction from inside the corridors of power in the run-up to the election, Mark Leftly asks if the coalition’s track record on infrastructure is anything to celebrate

  • Birmingham’s new John Lewis store
    Features

    Birmingham’s buzz

    2015-03-06T06:00:00Z

    Not so long ago, the greatest thing about Birmingham was finding a road out of it. But in little more than a decade it has transformed itself into a thriving urban centre that businesses and people are flocking to be part of

  • Inside Westminster
    Features

    Inside Westminster: The Inner Circle

    2015-02-20T06:00:00Z

    We consider the role of the chief construction adviser, and identify the key Whitehall construction power brokers

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    Features

    The Russian dilemma

    2014-09-26T06:29:00Z

    The Ukraine crisis has brought uncertainty to what should be a flourishing Russian market, but there are still good reasons for doing business there

  • Argent
    Features

    A client's view: Argent

    2014-06-12T06:52:00Z

    Argent’s Tony Giddings on the developer’s near £1bn pipeline of work and its belief in partnering

  • Paul Lewis
    Features

    A client's view: Stanhope

    2014-06-11T06:00:00Z

    Stanhope’s head of development management on selecting contractors and the London market