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Construction Market Intelligence UK Edition Q1 2024
Just published is the Q1 2024 edition of Construction Market Intelligence, RLB’s new digital publication incorporating our quarterly tender price forecast. As always, our aim is to provide the data, insights and analysis that will enable ...
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RLB Digital supports industry stakeholders to produce digital landscape guide for SMEs
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RLB launches Net Zero Carbon Guide for Procurement
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Considering the Building Safety Act when procuring buildings
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Procurement Trends Report 2024
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The 2024 edition of RLB’s annual Procurement Trends survey, ‘Investing in Your Supply Chain’, ...
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Our new ESG report is now live
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RLB UK has for the first time published a report that records its Environmental, Social and ...
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Data Centre Trends Report 2024
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Cloud computing and AI technologies are driving demand for data centres, but growing construction ...
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Meet the productivity evangelists and their tribes
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UK plc’s productivity in general (and for the country’s construction “division” in ...
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Signs of green shoots in a subdued market
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We have just released Q1 2024 of our Construction Market Intelligence Report which looks at market ...
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Nurturing Your Money Tree
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Reflections from Government Property 2024 The public sector can use its built assets to build ...
Tender Price Forecast
Construction Market Intelligence UK Edition Q1 2024
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Just published is the Q1 2024 edition of Construction Market Intelligence, RLB’s new digital ...
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The Supply Chain is crumpling – here’s how to bolster it
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Last year wasn’t the best of years to be a contractor. The last seven months of 2023 saw major ...
Perspective 2023 vol 2
The missing link: How blockchain can help construction industry leaders to monitor and manage change
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As Heraclitus said around 2,500 years ago: “The only constant in life is change.” Unfortunately,...
Perspective 2023 vol 2
The digital revolution: Unleashing the potential in the built environment
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Back in 2020, my colleague Matt Sharp, Chief Digital Officer for RLB UK, wrote an article for ...
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RLB debates the implications of new safety legislation at industry roundtable
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Claimed to be the biggest change in over 40 years, the new Building Safety Act came into force with ...
Capability
The new Building Regulations – the impact explained
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Many of us in the built environment recognise and understand the importance of the Building ...
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It’s time to reset our mindset when it comes to Last Mile Logistics
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I recently attended the Last Mile Logistics Conference, held at BAFTA in London, with the aim of ...
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Adapting procurement in the built environment
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Navigating changing market dynamics This is an abridged article that first appeared in Building ...
Tender Price Forecast
Construction Market Intelligence – UK Tender Price Forecast Q4 2023
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Construction Market Intelligence is the new name – along with a new look and digital format – of...
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Blindsided: The short-sightedness of the UK’s lack of an industrial strategy
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With the Party-political conference season all over, we have now all heard the promises from the ...
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A roadmap to offset climate change’s predictable outcomes
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With the countdown to meet decarbonisation targets still running, Lucia Glynn spoke to Schools Week ...
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The Rise of Community Centric Retail Spaces
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The recent news that Wilko was going into administration came as no shock to those of us working ...
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The challenges and opportunities facing the education estate
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With topics concerning education rarely out of the news of late, this year’s Education Estates ...
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Making a CIF bid – guidance, hints and tips
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The Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) can benefit schools and academies striving to balance ...
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Decarbonising challenges for the higher education estate – 2030 and beyond
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Just over four years ago the UK became the first major economy in the world to legislate reaching ...
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The critical role of the PMO when surveying large estates for RAAC
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The initial challenge for estate managers when the potential hazards linked to RAAC panels were ...
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The hidden cost of RAAC remediation
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What has become apparent, and many of us in our industry have known for a while, is that different ...
Capability
When RAAC is the tip of the iceberg
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There is a chain of events that estate managers can be all too familiar with. An emergency fix ...
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The Role of Digital, Data and AI in supporting RAAC strategies
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The last few weeks has seen RAAC (Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete) dominate not just the ...
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Optimising Public Sector Estates: Post Party Conference Reflections
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So, the Party Conference season is now over with Liverpool and Manchester returning to business as ...
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How ESG is changing the value of our commercial estates
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Matthew Brooker, National Head of Commercial, RLB UK I recently celebrated 34 years at RLB. This ...
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Consistency, Collaboration and Commitment
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Reflections from the Building the Future Commission conference “How is the net zero agenda ...
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Navigating the Housing Sector’s ‘What Now, What Next’
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The autumn conference season is now officially off and running, with a wide range of conventions ...
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RLB Westminster Business Forum – Managing the Transition from PFI contracts
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It was with my RLB Public & Civic sector hat on that I recently attended the Westminster ...
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The Future is bright: Young Professionals at UKREiiF
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Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB) and UKREiiF joined forces during the annual UKREiiF event to encourage ...
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