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    St Pancras Midland Grand Hotel: A hotel to remember

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    The Midland Grand Hotel used to be a vast, obsolete luxury liner moored alongside St Pancras station. Then it was an office, then a ruin, and in a few years it will become something truly splendid.

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    Capsule hotels: Hotels in a nutshell

    2003-08-15T00:00:00Z

    The man that got us eating raw fish off a conveyor belt is trying to sell us a night in a prefab sardine tin. But how will Europeans cope with Japanese-style capsule hotels?

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    Cost model: Hotel refurbishment

    2002-06-14T00:00:00Z

    Despite sharp drops in profitability over the past year, hotel operators continue to invest heavily in refurbishment. In this quarter’s cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest examines the key elements and challenges of hotel refurbishment, giving detailed costs for guest rooms and front-of-house areas

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    Cost study: Holiday Inn Express

    1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The client wanted a budget hotel built for a fixed price with minimum risk. Thanks to the innovative use of a special purpose vehicle company, it was able to start operating the new Holiday Inn Express at Wellingborough after just 30 weeks on site

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    Cost study: London Heathrow Marriott Hotel

    1999-03-05T00:00:00Z

    The Whitbread Hotel Company s 390-bedroom London Heathrow Marriott is its first new-build hotel, procured to a tight timescale using extensive prefabrication and within a fixed budget of £56 000 a bedroom. The result is Marriott s flagship for the UK

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    Cost model: Hotels

    1998-12-31T00:00:00Z

    Budget hotels are springing up all over the country. Davis Langdon & Everest costs a typical example.

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    High-Rise Office Towers - Cost model, May 1997

    1998-12-31T00:00:00Z

    Tall buildings are back in vogue. This month sees the completion of Europe’s tallest office building, the Commerzbank in Frankfurt. In Shanghai and Melbourned, towers of more than 100 storeys are planned. In this cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest gives the results of an international survey of tall building ...

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    Luxury Hotels - Cost model, April 1996

    1998-12-31T00:00:00Z

    The hotel industry is emerging from recession with profitability returning to pre-slump levels and developers and operators again looking to expand. QS Davis Langdon & Everest examines teh economics of the top end of the market and analyses a five-star, 100-bed hotel in central London. DLE also reviews cost levels ...