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FeaturesInfrastructure update: How can developers navigate the ever-lengthening connections queue?
In the second half of our two-part special on UK power, Turner & Townsend Alinea examine how the rising demand for new connections to the distribution network has time and cost impacts for developers.聽
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FeaturesInfrastructure update: Electricity transmission owners hold key to UK鈥檚 energy transition but face challenges
The transmission sector is a key link in the chain that will deliver a net zero future, write Mark Docherty and Simon Rawlinson
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FeaturesProcurement update: data centre development challenges
Data centre clients are scaling up to deliver ever bigger programmes 鈥� so, what are the main client types and the specific procurement challenges in this sector?
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Demand is set to rise as the economy stabilises
Demand is set to strengthen as economic stability stimulates a recovery in private sector investment, but contractor capacity is depleted and risk aversion elevated
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FeaturesLondon towers 鈥� does it make more sense to build new or renew?
The twin currencies of carbon and cost have encouraged the adaptive reuse of towers, bringing the additional complexity of working within an existing building
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FeaturesTop 50 Engineers 2024
Full sortable data from 好色先生TV鈥檚 ranking of the top 50 engineers in the UK
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FeaturesTop 50 Architects 2024
Full sortable data from 好色先生TV鈥檚 ranking of the top 50 architects in the UK
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FeaturesTop 50 Project Managers 2024
Full sortable data from 好色先生TV鈥檚 ranking of the top 50 project managers in the UK
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FeaturesTop 150 Consultants 2024: Are we about to see boom time for construction?
This year鈥檚 survey shows rapidly increasing optimism on better times ahead for the industry 鈥� but will challenges around skills and capacity, global events and macroeconomics hold it back? Carl Brown reports
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FeaturesTop 150 Consultants 2024: What AI and machine learning tools are you using?
This year, 好色先生TV asked firms for specific examples of AI and machine learning solutions that they have used, and what they learnt. Carl Brown reports
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FeaturesCost model: Evaluating the construction cost impact of the 好色先生TV Safety Act
The implications of the legislation, a look at real-world applications, and a notional model for cost increases on a higher-risk building
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FeaturesInfrastructure update: What challenges does Labour face and what can the industry expect?
What steps should the new government take to accelerate infrastructure delivery? Simon聽Rawlinson surveys the post-electoral landscape
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Materials prices and margins are both set to come under pressure
Rising materials prices could cause capacity pinch-points. And where spare capacity exists, intense competition could put margins under greater pressure.聽Brian Smith of Aecom reports
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FeaturesCost model: How construction can meet the data centre challenge
With the demand for data storage soaring, the construction industry must find ways to rise to this challenge efficiently and sustainably, against a background of land and energy scarcity
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FeaturesInternational cost comparison 2024
What are the latest trends in international construction costs聽as聽we move into what is likely to be a pivotal moment in the recovery of the sector globally?
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FeaturesCost model: Evolving the design and build of community diagnostic centres
The rollout of these centres is intended to cut long elective care waiting lists, provide value for taxpayers and decarbonise the NHS, but achieving all three is a challenge
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Why prices for goods and services are still set for further increases
Construction output is falling steadily as high interest rates sap demand, though repair and maintenance is propping up the sector. Despite materials costs rising less rapidly, tender prices are still on the up
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FeaturesHow robust management of 鈥榝orever chemicals鈥� can help developers bring forward brownfield regeneration sites
PFAS contamination is impacting brownfield projects, but robust risk management can help developers bring forward sites even as regulations are tightened up
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FeaturesCost model: Making sports stadiums fit for purpose
Today鈥檚 sports stadiums face new challenges and require redeveloping for audiences in a diverse and sustainable way.聽Will Goring of Turner & Townsend Alinea and Philip聽Johnson of Populous outline the issues.
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Why firms will feel the pressure in 2024
As we head into the new year, input costs are levelling off 鈥� in terms of materials at least 鈥� but as new orders become patchier, market competition is rising聽