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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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RLB launches its 'How to Procure Us' guide to support public sector procurement
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Building Safety Act: Everything you need to know and key actions
April this year marked another significant milestone for building safety in the UK, when the new building safety regime finally became fully established in law. Like many in my profession, this felt like a watershed moment for the built environment, ...
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RLB Digital supports industry stakeholders to produce digital landscape guide for SMEs
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Data centre growth seen in scaled schemes and retrofits
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As demand for computing power rises, developers are turning to options from hyper-scale data centres...
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Look, listen, act: the three steps to digital transformation
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What’s the best way to approach and achieve digital transformation? Do you need new technology or ...
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What we need now is good governance
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As the country gets ready to elect a new government, it occurred to me as a professional advising ...
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The New Age of Building Safety – Built to Last!
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With the recent legislative changes relating to the Building Safety Act, Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB)...
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Global Annual Report 2024
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Our industry is evolving rapidly to meet the modern needs of the built environment: to be digitally ...
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Sustainability Glossary
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Sustainability is a complex field, with many definitions and acronyms, and the aim of this glossary ...
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It’s time to start talking about the importance of a UK industrial strategy
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As key industry stakeholders gather in Leeds for UKREiiF, one of the UK’s largest property and ...
Tender Price Forecast
Construction Market Intelligence UK Edition Q2 2024
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Just published is the Q2 2024 edition of Construction Market Intelligence, RLB’s digital ...
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The Race to Net Zero: Decarbonisation Healthcare Estates in NI
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Back in December 2021, the Department for Economy published the Northern Ireland Energy Strategy –...
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Building Safety Act: Everything you need to know and key actions
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April this year marked another significant milestone for building safety in the UK, when the new ...
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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 ...
Future Thinking
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 ...
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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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