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Construction Market Intelligence UK Edition Q4 2025
Just published is the Q4 2025 edition of Construction Market Intelligence, RLB’s comprehensive and up-to-date guide to construction activity around the UK incorporating our quarterly tender price forecast. This quarter our analysts ...
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Sustainability is a complex field, with many definitions and acronyms, and the aim of this glossary is to help clients and colleagues and wider industry contacts improve their knowledge in this field and use clear and consistent terminology. The ...
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Water: The New Carbon?
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With the World Economic Forum estimated 40% gap between global water supply and demand, RLB’s Rees...
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In the News: Data Centre Market Growth
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On both sides of the globe, the data centre market is accelerating – the Australian market saw...
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Beyond Net Zero: Turning Sustainability into Long-Term Industry Impact
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Over half of decade ago, RLB set ambitious sustainability targets. Here RLB UK & Europe’s ...
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The role of data in shaping successful public private partnerships (PPP)
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With UK Government recognition of the importance of public private partnerships (PPP) in 2026, it ...
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Capability
Unlocking Sport’s True Value: Balancing Commercial Returns and Social Impact
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I recently attended the Global Sport Agora, organised by the World Academy of Sport in collaboration...
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Building Safety’s Next Chapter: Culture Competence and Collaboration
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I recently had the pleasure of sitting on a panel at the Residential Building Safety Summit, part ...
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Construction Market Intelligence UK Edition Q4 2025
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Just published is the Q4 2025 edition of Construction Market Intelligence, RLB’s comprehensive...
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Digital Transformation
Learning to Surf the AI Wave
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“Ride the AI wave to your business’s future”, AI is reshaping the business landscape and ...
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Capability
Quality as the new Safety Paradigm
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For built environment professionals, safety must be underpinned by quality at every stage of project...
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Digital Transformation
From analysing police data to managing information
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The career path to the built environment isn’t always linear, as Head of RLB Digital, Michelle ...
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The Condition of the Country’s Education Estate
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Burdened with a legacy of RAAC and asbestos, UK schools are struggling with the practical ...
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Future Thinking
Data Centre Growth Shows No Sign of Slowing
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On the back of RLB’s latest Construction Market Intelligence report, RLB Partner, Lucy Darling, ...
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Data centre developments continue to boom
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RLB’s latest data centre report revealed that commissioned capacity has surged by nearly 300% ...
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Embrace the New Way of Work
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“Leaders must evolve the DNA of their organisations”. RLB’s People & Culture Director, ...
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UK Construction Market Intelligence Q3 2025
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Out now is the Q3 2025 edition of Construction Market Intelligence, RLB’s digital publication ...
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The Subscription City: Designed for people, powered by data
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Sustainability as a Financial Product: Why Real Estate Needs to Rethink ESG
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In today’s competitive private equity real estate landscape, ESG is no longer optional – ...
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Transforming supply chains is key to resilience, cost savings and long-term value
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The built environment needs to shift from a short-term cost focus to outcome-based, value-driven ...
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Opportunity is being left on the table
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RLB’s recent Procurement Trends report highlighted a recurring theme we’re seeing across our ...
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Why the long weight?
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It’s been six months since the Procurement Act 2023 came into force, aiming to streamline public ...
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Supply chain risks come with big opportunities
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In an unpredictable global landscape, procurement and supply chain management are more complex than ...
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Rethinking PPPs for a New Era
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Have Public Finance Initiative (PFI) and Public Private Partnership (PPP) Projects just suffered ...
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Construction Procurement Trends Report 2025
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Funding the Future: Decarbonising the Built Environment
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Achieving net zero isn’t just a technical challenge – it’s a financial one. As we transition ...
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Navigating the New Normal: Rethinking the Data Centre Supply Chain with Digital Solutions
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Supply chain principles used to involve a manufacturer and a buyer, possibly with a distributor or ...
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Tender Price Forecast
CONSTRUCTION MARKET INTELLIGENCE UK EDITION Q2 2025
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Margins will continue to be under pressure this year as sharp increases in input costs outrun ...
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Is the UK Government Setting a New Course for Higher Education?
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The UK Government’s recent announcement of a 6% levy on international student fee income, coupled ...
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New ESG report showcases our performance as a responsible business
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The continued progress we are making towards meeting our ambitious environmental, social and ...
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The Office Reimagined: Designing for Humans, Not by Headcount
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With this year’s annual BCO conference exploring the Power of the Brand, Design and Quality, RLB ...
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Data Centre Boom: Assessing supply chain strains amid unprecedented demand
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What’s driving the data centre boom today, and what strategies are needed to support its supply ...
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Tariff panic? let’s cut through the noise and respond with strategy
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Trade tensions are nothing new, but the recent wave of tariff anxiety has dominated headlines, ...
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Deal Or No Deal? Embedding Quality in the Next Generation of PPPs
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Addressing the UK’s Infrastructure Challenge The UK faces a significant infrastructure investment ...
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Data Centre Trends Report 2025
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The data centre sector is booming, reaching a critical inflection point. However, this rapid ...
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Whole life carbon – an evolving legislative landscape
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As we move into the second quarter of 2025, RLB Sustainability Associate, Mike Bentham has reflected...
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