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- Construction Market Intelligence UK Edition Q4 2024
- How schools can plan for estates despite the autumn budget disappointment
- Making PFI Hand Back Collaboration Work in Practice
- How to transform architecture, engineering and construction data management
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Construction Market Intelligence UK Edition Q4 2024
No significant breakout in tender prices is expected in the UK construction sector even though input costs continue to rise, according to the latest edition of RLB’s Construction Market Intelligence. The RLB weighted average of tender price ...
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Sustainability Glossary
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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Global Annual Report 2024
Our industry is evolving rapidly to meet the modern needs of the built environment: to be digitally enabled, sustainable, ethical, productive, and forever valuable. At Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB) we are proud to be an integral part of this evolution,...
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Procurement Trends Report 2024
The 2024 edition of RLB’s annual Procurement Trends survey, ‘Investing in Your Supply Chain’, aims to give you the data, insights and analysis you need to understand what is changing in procurement within the UK construction industry. To ...
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Tender Price Forecast
Construction Market Intelligence UK Edition Q4 2024
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No significant breakout in tender prices is expected in the UK construction sector even though input...
Capability
How schools can plan for estates despite the autumn budget disappointment
4 Min read
The promised additional funding for estates won’t get near fixing long-term neglect. RLB Senior ...
Capability
Making PFI Hand Back Collaboration Work in Practice
5 Min read
As the first wave of Public Private Partnerships (PPP) projects begin the transition to expiry, ...
Capability
How to transform architecture, engineering and construction data management
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Emma Hooper, Head of Information Management Strategy at RLB Digital joins Senda Ben Abdallah on ...
Capability
Building smarter: Five essentials for the future of data centre development
5 Min read
With increasing demand for AI and cloud-based applications fuelling exponential growth in data ...
Capability
Circular Economy in Construction: A Strategic Pathway to Net Zero
7 Min read
In today’s construction industry, clients are navigating a complex landscape of rising costs, ...
Capability
A year of building safety changes: reflections and the path forward
4 Min read
Samantha Mepham, partner, National Head of Health and Safety Services, at Rider Levett Bucknall ...
Future Thinking
Defining Digital Twins; the built environment’s powerful and misunderstood technology
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RLB Digital’s Head of Information Management Strategy, Emma Hooper, recently shared her views with...
Future Thinking
The UK Net Zero Building Standard: A Game-Changer for the Construction Industry
5 Min read
In our daily conversations with clients, one question keeps coming up: how can we effectively ...
Future Thinking
Adapting to Change – A reflection on ShedMasters
4 Min read
Like many in the built environment, I was fortunate to attend ShedMasters recently, the European ...
Capability
Human or artificial intelligence? It’s all a matter of trust
5 Min read
RLB’s Head of Industry and Service Insight, Paul Beeston recently asked just this question while ...
Tender Price Forecast
Construction Market Intelligence UK Edition Q3 2024
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We are pleased to announce the publication of the Q3 2024 edition of Construction Market ...
Capability
How to lead an organisation through change when uncertainty is the only constant
4 Min read
With the right leadership mindset uncertainty can be seen as a gift rather than a cross to bear. ...
Capability
Experts discuss how industry can address climate change
6 Min read
While construction growth over the coming decade is likely to benefit from technological ...
Capability
How can we develop our PPP capability?
4 Min read
For those in the built environment, Private Public Partnerships continue to raise huge challenges ...
Capability
The Future of Retail Spaces: Adapting to the Hybrid Shopping Experience
3 Min read
The retail industry is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by the convergence of physical ...
Capability
Maximising procurement as an enabler for construction in the North West of England
8 Min read
With the Procurement Act due to become live on 28 October, stakeholders from around the build ...
Capability
The conundrum of navigating data centre energy
6 Min read
“We know that to move forward, standing still is not an option,” Rees Westley, RLB Partner, ...
Capability
An Industry Overview: Three Months of the Building Safety Act’s Secondary Legislation
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It’s been three months since the secondary legislation of the Building Safety Act came into effect...
Capability
Data centre growth seen in scaled schemes and retrofits
8 Min read
As demand for computing power rises, developers are turning to options from hyper-scale data centres...
Capability
Look, listen, act: the three steps to digital transformation
6 Min read
What’s the best way to approach and achieve digital transformation? Do you need new technology or ...
Future Thinking
What we need now is good governance
3 Min read
As the country gets ready to elect a new government, it occurred to me as a professional advising ...
Capability
The New Age of Building Safety – Built to Last!
3 Min read
With the recent legislative changes relating to the Building Safety Act, Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB)...
Future Thinking
Global Annual Report 2024
1 Min read
Our industry is evolving rapidly to meet the modern needs of the built environment: to be digitally ...
Capability
Sustainability Glossary
1 Min read
Sustainability is a complex field, with many definitions and acronyms, and the aim of this glossary ...
Future Thinking
It’s time to start talking about the importance of a UK industrial strategy
6 Min read
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 ...
Future Thinking
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 –...
Capability
Building Safety Act: Everything you need to know and key actions
5 Min read
April this year marked another significant milestone for building safety in the UK, when the new ...
Market Research
Procurement Trends Report 2024
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The 2024 edition of RLB’s annual Procurement Trends survey, ‘Investing in Your Supply Chain’, ...
Capability
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 ...
Market Research
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
3 Min read
UK plc’s productivity in general (and for the country’s construction “division” in ...
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