Volatile workload index remains in positive territory Growth in architecture industry still driven by housing sector The RIBA Future Trends Workload Index decreased in February yet remained in firmly positive territory (down to +21, from +29 in January). Large practices (51+ staff) were by far the most positive
15 October 2016 – by Amber Rolt and David Hatcher Dutch pension fund APG is to unlock one of the UK’s most long-awaited regeneration projects, the St James Centre in Edinburgh, by buying a three quarters stake in the £1bn scheme. Ten years after purchasing the shopping centre, TH Real
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) today (Thursday 24 September) announced the 2016 RIBA International Fellowships which will be awarded to nine non-UK architects, of whom two are in partnership. The RIBA’s 2015 International Fellowships are:• Kees Christiaanse – KCAP, Netherlands• Mario Cucinella – MC Architects, Italy• Bjarke Ingels
©PA Shares in Kingspan, the Irish building supplies group, rose 5 per cent on Monday after its strongest ever six-month trading period on the back of a recovery in European construction markets. Kingspan reported a 50 per cent increase in its interim trading profit to €167m, well ahead of analysts’
ECS Engineering Services have been contacted in regards to the replacement of three Archimedes screw pumps which were operating at the Severn Trent Water’s Mansfield Sewage Treatment Works. NMCNomenca. ECS Engineering Services have been operating for more than 20 years to deliver high standard engineering solutions. The company focuses on
The latest selection of new homes that are a part of the Royal Wharf development will be released for sale on the 29th of July. Ballymore & Oxley will be releasing the homes for sale next month as the new neighbourhood near London’s Royal Docks makes further steps towards completion.
Two of Cambridge’s leading family-owned businesses, Marshall Group Properties, part of the Marshall Group – one of the largest private employers in Cambridge, and Hill, the award-winning top 15 UK housebuilder, have announced a strategic 50:50 joint venture agreement that will see them deliver 450 new homes in Cambridge. The
16mm in concrete with 4,800 impacts per minute from 1.1 joules SDS-PLUS with one-touch sliding chuck Weighs just 2.0kg including 4.0Ah Lithium-Ion battery Makita is expanding the increasingly popular 10.8v range of power tools where the superb machine power performance is coupled with the compact physical size of the machines.
The civil engineering contractor Seymour Civil Engineering has spoken about how important it is that apprenticeship providers work in order to tackle the increasing shortage of skilled workers. The North East based company has said that companies that offer apprenticeships need to make sure that they are working to reduce
SES Engineering Services has announced that they have appointed a new Managing Director with immediate effect. The leading national engineering company have revealed that they have appointed Jason Knights for this position after the departure of the former Managing Director Andy Wall. The position has become available as Andy announced
Volatile workload index remains in positive territory Growth in architecture industry still driven by housing sector The RIBA Future Trends Workload Index decreased in February yet remained in firmly positive territory (down to +21, from +29 in January). Large practices (51+ staff) were by far the most positive (balance figure +50). Small practices (1–10 staff, balance figure +25) and medium-sized practices (11–50 staff, balance figure +19) also continue to predict increases in workload. Practices in the North of England were the most confident this month (balance figure +30); those in Wales and the West (+15) and Scotland (0) were more cautious about future workload levels. The private housing sector forecast remains the strongest area of growth with a marginal increase to +31 in February 2016 (up from +30 in January). Ground was lost in both the commercial sector workload forecast (+10 in February, down from +14 in January) and public sector workload forecast (+1 in February, down from +7 in January). Breaking into positive territory for the first time since November 2015, the community sector forecast increased to +2 in February. The RIBA Future Trends Staffing Index fell, standing at +7 in February 2016 (down from +10 in January). Medium-sized and large practices were both optimistic about taking on additional staff during the next quarter (balance figures +30 and +33 respectively). Small practices were less confident about future staffing levels (balance figure +8 in February). RIBA Executive Director Members, Adrian Dobson, said: “The Workload Index remains in firmly positive territory, despite some volatility in recent months. This is perhaps more related to general economic uncertainties rather than factors specific to the market for architectural services. The majority of responding practices predict an increase in workloads in the medium term.” “A number of practices have reported a more stable pipeline of longer term, larger scale projects. Private housing remains the best performing sector in our survey, showing how central this has been to continuing growth in architects’ workloads.” ENDS Notes to editors: 1. For further press information contact Callum Reilly in the RIBA press office: callum.reilly@riba.org 020 7307 3757 2. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) champions better buildings, communities and the environment through architecture and our members. Architecture.com Follow @RIBA on Twitter for regular updates www.twitter.com/RIBA 3. Completed by a mix of small, medium and large firms based on a geographically representative sample, the RIBA Future Trends Survey was launched in January 2009 to monitor business and employment trends affecting the architects’ profession. 4. The Future Trends Survey is carried out by the RIBA in partnership with the Fees Bureau. Results of the survey, including a full graphical analysis, are published each month at: http://www.architecture.com/RIBA/Professionalsupport/FutureTrendsSurvey.aspx 5. To participate in the RIBA Future Trends Survey, please contact the RIBA Practice Department on 020 7307 3749 or email practice@riba.org. The survey takes approximately five minutes to complete each month, and all returns are independently processed in strict confidence. 6. The definition for the workload balance figure is the difference between those expecting more work and those expecting less. A negative figure means more respondents expect less work than those expecting more work. This figure is used to represent the RIBA Future Trends Workload Index, which for February 2016 was +21. 7. The definition for the staffing balance figure is the difference between those expecting to employ more permanent staff in the next three months and those expecting to employ fewer. A negative figure means more respondents expect to employ fewer permanent staff. This figure is used to represent the RIBA Future Trends Staffing Index, which for February 2016 was +7. Posted on Thursday 31st March 2016 Source link
15 October 2016 – by Amber Rolt and David Hatcher Dutch pension fund APG is to unlock one of the UK’s most long-awaited regeneration projects, the St James Centre in Edinburgh, by buying a three quarters stake in the £1bn scheme. Ten years after purchasing the shopping centre, TH Real Estate is now close to bringing in the €433bn (£391bn) investor as partner for its retail-led redevelopment, which when complete will include 850,000 sq ft of shops, a 210-bedroom W Hotel, 250 flats, 20 restaurants and a 30-screen cinema. The high level of investment needed to develop city centre shopping centre projects makes such a deal rare and illustrates APG’s long-term investment horizons. Construction of the project will cost close to £450m on top of a current site value of around £180m. This would take APG’s total investment to more than £400m. The Henderson UK Shopping Fund, managed by TH Real Estate, will retain the remaining ownership and manage the development. TH Real Estate appointed Cushman & Wakefield to find a partner to fund the project in May last year. It was close to securing a deal with parent company TIAA and Australia’s largest pension fund AustralianSuper in March to take one-third stakes in the project, but a deal was never agreed. The project achieved revised planning permission last July and over the past few years the scheme’s income has eroded as retailers have moved out in anticipation of the redevelopment. Department store John Lewis will remain as the anchor tenant and will trade throughout construction. Demolition work was scheduled to begin in May, but has not started. The redevelopment is due to be completed by 2020. Since the initial purchase of the centre, plans for the site, known as one of Edinburgh’s biggest eyesores, have faced a series of financial and planning complications. The financial crisis hit shortly after the original plans were approved in 2009. TH has also had to undertake an arduous land assembly battle. One appeal against the CPO on the site is still outstanding, but the process is otherwise close to completion. Negotiations have since progressed for outstanding land acquisitions. Savills is advising APG. Subscribe to Estates to read great articles like this every week. See options below. Source link
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) today (Thursday 24 September) announced the 2016 RIBA International Fellowships which will be awarded to nine non-UK architects, of whom two are in partnership. The RIBA’s 2015 International Fellowships are:• Kees Christiaanse – KCAP, Netherlands• Mario Cucinella – MC Architects, Italy• Bjarke Ingels – BIG, Denmark• Rick Joy – Rick Joy Architects, USA• Brian MacKay-Lyons – MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, Canada• Peter Märkli – Studio Märkli, Switzerland• Peter Stutchbury – Peter Stutchbury Architecture, Australia• José Antonio Martínez Lapeña & Elias Torres – Spain The lifetime honour allows individual recipients to use the initials Int FRIBA after their name. The 2016 RIBA International Fellowships will be presented at a special event at the RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London, W1 on 1 February 2016. ENDS Notes to editors: 1. For further press information contact Callum Reilly in the RIBA Press Office: 020 7307 3757 callum.reilly@riba.org 2. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) champions better buildings, communities and the environment through architecture and our members. Visit www.architecture.com and follow us on Twitter. 3. The 2015 RIBA Honours Committee who selected the 2016 Fellows was chaired by RIBA President Jane Duncan with Sir Peter Cook, Neil Gillespie OBE, Victoria Thornton OBE and the 2015 Royal Gold Medallist, John Tuomey. 4. RIBA International Fellows 2016 citations: KEES CHRISTIAANSE, architect and urban planner, Netherlands – nominated by Louisa Hutton Kees Christiaanse is a Dutch architect and urban planner whose work personifies the complementary nature of these disciplines: his architecture is rooted in the city and his urban planning is very much design-based. In his role as artistic director of the Dutch Building Department – a post he held in the mid 90s – Christiaanse combined the two disciplines harmoniously, fostering the Dutch urban renaissance of the late 20th century. Following nine years with the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, six of them as partner, in 1989 Christiaanse then founded his own office – KCAP Architects&Planners – in Rotterdam. The office has expanded to Zurich and Shanghai, and is currently forming a base in Singapore. KCAP has been involved with significant large-scale urban projects throughout Europe – including the Royal Docks (with Maccreanor Lavington), the post-Olympic Park in London, and the world-renowned HafenCity in Hamburg. He is now particularly active with university campuses and knowledge clusters, amongst other projects. Throughout his career Christiaanse has fruitfully combined office practice with both teaching and research. From 1996 to 2003 he was a professor of architecture and urban planning at the Technical University of Berlin; currently he holds the Chair of the Institute for Urban Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology – or ETH – in Zürich. Since 2010 Christiaanse has been programme leader of the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore, a research programme developed between the ETH and Singapore’s University of Technology and Design whose goal is to develop ways to approach sustainable urban futures for cities with an Asian perspective. In his worldwide activities of lecturing, writing, and teaching and in his engagement with various complex urban assignments, Christiaanse campaigns for an understanding of the city as an open system, encouraging city governments – while aiming for high density, mixed-tenure and multi-centred solutions – to view urban planning as a three-dimensional, layered activity and to adopt structural frameworks that allow for change and incremental development. It is for his profound thinking and creative, responsible work at the interface of architecture and urbanism, and his understanding of the synergies between design, knowledge, strategy and process management, that the RIBA is awarding Kees Christiaanse International Fellowship. MARIO CUCINELLA, Italy – nominated by Peter Clegg The Italian architect Mario Cucinella decidedly ticks the sustainability box. The firm’s solid experience in architectural design is backed up by an emphasis placed on the importance of energy matters and environmental issues. The team also majors in urban regeneration, in industrial design and technological research. Through collaboration with universities and the research programmes of the European Commission these lessons are fed back into the practice. Cucinella wins international competitions and awards for buildings all round the world. He first set up the practice in Paris in 1992, then started up the Bologna office in 1999, where he employs a team of architects and engineers from many countries. Between 1998 and 2006 he taught at the Faculty of Architecture in Ferrara, Italy, and since 2004 he has been an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham. In 2013 he was Guest Professor in Emerging Technologies at the Technische Universitat in Munich, while in 2014 he was Guest Professor at Architectural Faculty Federico II, Naples. Cucinella regularly lectures in Italy and abroad. He is currently Director in the Scientific Committee of PLEA (Passive and Low Energy Architecture). He works as a tutor with Renzo Piano on the project G124 for the regeneration of Italy’s suburbs. In 2012 he also founded Building Green Future, a non-profit organization that brings together the two major strands of his thinking, promoting sustainable development through green architecture and urban regeneration. Among the practice’s most significant projects are: The SIEEB – Sino-Italian Ecological and Energy Efficient Building – Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; the new Civic Offices of Bologna; the CSET – Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies – The University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China; the new headquarters of 3M ITALY Milan; the project of Regional Agency for the Environment ARPA in Ferrara; a Kuwait School in Gaza, developed in partnership with UNRWA (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) The firm has won many national and international awards, in particular for its urban and its green projects. These include a Green Building Award at MIPIM for the building in Milan and a Premio Architettura prize for the masterplan for the rehabilitation of areas of Corso Martyrs of Liberty in Catania. BJARKE INGELS, Denmark – nominated by Stephen Hodder Danish architect Bjarke Ingels’s practice BIG has come of age and is now working at a truly global scale. He
©PA Shares in Kingspan, the Irish building supplies group, rose 5 per cent on Monday after its strongest ever six-month trading period on the back of a recovery in European construction markets. Kingspan reported a 50 per cent increase in its interim trading profit to €167m, well ahead of analysts’ expectations, prompting the company to revise upwards its estimates of full-year performance. Pre-tax profit rose 54 per cent to €154.8m in the first half of the year. More On this topic IN Construction Kingspan, a global producer of insulation products from its base in the small town of Kingscourt in County Cavan, said revenue rose a fifth in the six months to the end of June to €1.47bn. The rise was helped by acquisitions — the group has spent just over €200m so far this year on buying companies in niche areas of the construction market — but was mainly boosted by strong sales growth, particularly in Europe, where Kingspan has focused its activities. “It is clear the strength of the first-half performance suggests that our full-year forecast is far too light,” said Davy stockbrokers in a note to investors. Kingspan’s interim dividend was raised by a quarter. Gene Murtagh, chief executive, said Kingspan was developing plans to help further grow its business. The company has created a new division focused on materials that filter daylight into buildings following its purchase last month of Essmann, the leading supplier in Germany of products that specialise in “daylighting”, as the filtering technology is known. Mr Murtagh said Kingspan was also planning to expand the business into the US. “It’s an opportunity to create a global branded Kingspan business in its own right — it’s a very fragmented business worldwide,” he told the Financial Times. Mr Murtagh said the creation of a substantial light and air business would take at least five years, but he estimated it would eventually account for between 8 and 10 per cent of the group’s revenue. Mr Murtagh has been at the helm of Kingspan, which has a market capitalisation of €4.3bn, since 2005. The company was founded by his father; the Murtagh family and management own about 20 per cent of the group’s shares. “We’re the only supplier worldwide of our product range, so we don’t have competitors globally,” he said. “We’re disrupters — our role is to disrupt the traditional methods of construction and construction materials. Concrete and metal and tiles — they are our competition.” He also said that while the group is focused on northern Europe and building a greater presence in the US, it was also turning its attention to Asia given the size of the population, high building demand, and investment in manufacturing facilities. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2016. You may share using our article tools. Please don’t cut articles from FT.com and redistribute by email or post to the web. Source link
ECS Engineering Services have been contacted in regards to the replacement of three Archimedes screw pumps which were operating at the Severn Trent Water’s Mansfield Sewage Treatment Works. NMCNomenca. ECS Engineering Services have been operating for more than 20 years to deliver high standard engineering solutions. The company focuses on tailor made designs as well as projects that are connected to water, energy and environmental processing and managing. There specialisms made them an ideal candidate for the work that was required in the Mansfield Sewage Treatment Works. The Treatment facility is located near to the River Maun and operates in order to process most of the effluent water that is discarded from farms and homes that are in the surrounding area. The three screw pumps that needed replacing from the inlet station of the facility had been working non stop since the 1970s. The data monitoring the pumps however showed that they were experiencing a drop in efficiency caused by the long term wear and tear of the work being carried out. Each of the pumps needed to be replaced one at a time. Working this way took longer but the plan made sure that the Mansfield facility could continue to operate during the scheme of works. The pumps were found to be beyond any hope to refurbish, and so needed to be replaced completely. The Tier 1 contractor for Severn Trent Water, NMCNomenca, made this decision then looked to contact ECS for their specialist assistance. ECS thought that the work to replace the 13.5 meter long pump would take 8 weeks, with the original pumps removed by crane then recycled before the new pumps were installed. The pumps then needed to be re-screeded by hand in order to make sure that the space was at the optimum for efficiency. ECS have also offered a comprehensive maintenance plan that will support the new installations and protect them in the future in order to maintain the efficiency of the pumps for a good many years to come.
The latest selection of new homes that are a part of the Royal Wharf development will be released for sale on the 29th of July. Ballymore & Oxley will be releasing the homes for sale next month as the new neighbourhood near London’s Royal Docks makes further steps towards completion. The new homes that are being released include a mixture of two, three and four bedroomed homes in the form of duplex apartments. These homes have been created within the mansion style compass House. There are also apartments being released for sale that are located in the Latitude Building which is a popular Building that has a great view of the Thames. On the 29th of July there will be a four bedroomed duplex opened as a show apartment which has the interiors designed by Milc Style. This show home will be in Endeavour House, which is one of the buildings involved in the development that has been completed. The first building as a part of the Royal Wharf residential units were completed last year. The sites that are being released for sale on the 29th of July are expected to be completed this year. Some of those homes are thought to be ready for occupation by the end of the summer. The homes that are being released are thought to appeal to young families that are wanting to live close to London while still wanting more space. The Royal Wharf Development will lead to the creation of a brand new community in in London connected by a network of new streets that are also connected to squares and gardens. Sovereign Place is the high street of the development and will act as a focal point that has been inspired in design by Georgian Architecture. In Sovereign Place there will be a variety of independent shops, restaurants, bars and cafés.
Two of Cambridge’s leading family-owned businesses, Marshall Group Properties, part of the Marshall Group – one of the largest private employers in Cambridge, and Hill, the award-winning top 15 UK housebuilder, have announced a strategic 50:50 joint venture agreement that will see them deliver 450 new homes in Cambridge. The new development, Wing, will sit on a 160 acre parcel of land owned by the Marshall Group and is the business’ first major residential development project. With a masterplan that allows for a total of 1,300 new homes, the first phase of the development will be delivered by Hill and when complete, will comprise 315 private homes and 135 affordable homes – including shared ownership and affordable rent tenures. Designed by the award winning team at Pollard Thomas Edwards architects, this first phase will offer a range of properties including 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments and 2, 3, 4 and 5 bedroom houses. It will also be home to a wide-range of facilities to support the new community including a new primary school, sports pitches, allotments and retail and commercial space. New transport infrastructure will also be delivered as part of the new homes development and nearby Newmarket Road will be upgraded. Andy Hill, Chief Executive of Hill, comments: “We have established firm roots in Cambridge and have long been committed to delivering more homes to this great city as it continues to thrive and grow. Having developed over 1000 homes in Cambridge over the last 5 years alone, we take great pride in being able to provide a variety of homes for a range of people. We are therefore thrilled to be partnering with Marshall on this development and hope that it marks the start of a successful long-term relationship between two like-minded family firms committed to making Cambridge one of the best cities to live in the UK.” Robert Marshall, Chief Executive of Marshall of Cambridge comments: “We are delighted to be partnering with Hill for the first phase of the Wing development. Both Marshall and Hill are well aligned in respect of values, ethics and focussing on delivering excellent customer service. Together, we look forward to delivering an outstanding community on Cambridge’s eastern perimeter.” The site is well connected with the new Cambridge North Station just 1¼ miles away and regular buses to the city centre from the nearby park and ride car park. Sales are expected to launch at Wing in late 2019, with the first homes expected to be complete in the summer of 2020.
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The civil engineering contractor Seymour Civil Engineering has spoken about how important it is that apprenticeship providers work in order to tackle the increasing shortage of skilled workers. The North East based company has said that companies that offer apprenticeships need to make sure that they are working to reduce the demand for skilled workers in order to support the industry into the future. Engineering UK published research that had been carried out in to the shortage of workers at the minute and has found that companies would need to recruit a total of 56,000 engineers each year, every year, until 2022 in order to cut the shortage that is apparent in the sector. At the moment, the data shows that there is a shortfall of around 28,000 apprentices each year. Another study has been carried out by Adecco which has shown that a quarter of the employees in the UK that contribute towards the apprenticeship levy don’t actually take on and train any apprentices. Therefore those that contribute to the levy could help to support the industry and reduce the demand for skilled workers that is getting worse by offering apprenticeship places. Seymour Civil Engineering has looked at all of the information available and feels that the training of apprentices is vital for the future of the sector and the wider construction industry as a whole. Therefore the business will continue to take on apprentices. The Civil Engineering company has seen great results from the apprenticeship scheme they have in place in the industry as well as the wider community. The business also believes that working with local colleges and training boards is essential to educate students about the different areas and career options open to them. Apprenticeships also help those going through the training, giving them actual work experience instead of theoretical knowledge. This allows them to make more informed decisions about what area they would be interested in starting a career in as well as building connections with businesses and getting hands on experience.
SES Engineering Services has announced that they have appointed a new Managing Director with immediate effect. The leading national engineering company have revealed that they have appointed Jason Knights for this position after the departure of the former Managing Director Andy Wall. The position has become available as Andy announced that he was moving on and seeking new challenges. Andy managed to oversee the successful restructuring of the business and also made sure that the SES business has a continuing growth strategy while pushing for efficient operation and profitability throughout the company. Jason Knights the new Managing Director has been appointed internally. Jason joined the Wates Group in 2010 and his appointment to Managing Director is a direct reflection for the hard work that he has into expanding the Group’s internal M&E business, Wates Building Services. It is thought that in his new role Jason will be working to push forward the SES Engineering Services’ growth strategy. Also as a part of his new role at SES, Jason will be the first M&E specialist in the UK to achieve the BRE BIM Level 2 accreditation. This is a great accolade for Jason Knights his past experience will also be a great asset to the SES business. As a Managing Director, Jason will be watching over future development of SES’ innovative Prism offsite manufacturing business. The internal appointment of a new Managing Director is great news for the Building Services business. SES works to provide technical solutions for clients who operate in the built environment including design, manufacture and installation of building services. SES has been operating for more than 50 years and has recently developed an off site manufacturing facility, Prism which will provide an alternative to more labour intensive on site production. SES is a part of the Wates Group and employs more than 650 expert people.