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  • Design and build is now used on complex projects, such as Foster鈥檚 Bishop鈥檚 Square
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    Procurement: Employer鈥檚 agents

    2007-02-09T00:00:00Z

    Many cost consultants and project managers have extended their involvement on projects by acting as the employer鈥檚 agent 鈥� a job that introduces a wide range of responsibilities. Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines the role

  • Scottish Natural Heritage鈥檚 Great Glen House in Inverness
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    Sustainability: Offices

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    In this latest feature on eco-friendly development, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines how a growing commitment to sustainability will affect the commercial offices sector, with a case study on how a client鈥檚 requirements can be met in a leased building

  • The flexibility of construction management was an advantage in the highly complex Time and Space planetarium project in Greenwich Park
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    Procurement: Construction management

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Even in these risk-averse days, some hands-on clients still prefer the construction management route. But would more schemes benefit from the CM approach? And how should clients organise themselves to get the best results?

  • London Zoo鈥檚 Komodo Dragon House boasts a 300 m2 green roof, erected in 2004 by Miller Roofing using Sarnafil products, and based on biodiversity principles developed in Switzerland
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    Sustainability: Green roofs

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Living roofs are often specified for their symbolic value, as a statement of the owner or developer's environmental credentials. But, as Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon explains, there are also tangible cost and performance benefits to going green up top

  • 黑洞社区 work on Foster and Partners鈥� Tanaka Business School at Imperial College London was carried out by contractor Exterior after a two-stage tender
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    Procurement: Two-stage tendering

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    In the second of our procurement series, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon takes a look at two-stage tendering and how to get the best out of the early appointment of the contractor

  • Foster and Partners鈥� Bishops Square development in Spitalfields, east London, uses a large number of unitised components.
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    Here's one we prepared earlier 鈥�

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    If you are a specialist in residential development or hotels, you'll be well up on the many uses of off-site manufacture. But are there the same opportunities to build off site in the office sector? Simon Rawlinson of QS Davis Langdon discusses the current state of play