All Offices articles – Page 29
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Cost model: Building services
Services installations are crucial to the smooth running of construction projects, as well as the finished product, but their complexities are too often ignored. Mott Green and Wall, the specialist building services team within Davis Langdon & Everest, examines the specification, procurement and costs of a City office’s building services
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Cost study: Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre
Government, academia and business have come together to develop premises for start-up high-tech businesses in Plymouth. The alliance’s first building, the Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre, provides light and airy research and production units for £639/m2
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Cost model: Property taxation
Careful planning of property taxation issues can increase the value of investment in commercial property. In the latest cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest’s property taxation services group examines the issues and shows how allowances and deductions can be calculated for an office refurbishment project
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Cost model: Audiovisual systems
In this mini cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest and Mott Green & Wall examine the costs of audiovisual systems, which are appearing everywhere in the workplace, from offices to in-house gyms, and across the leisure industry in pubs, restaurants and football grounds
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Cost study: National Energy Centre in Milton Keynes
Low-energy buildings usually mean high capital costs. But not the National Energy Centre in Milton Keynes; it was built for nearly £200/m2 below the average unit cost for headquarters buildings. Compiled by Weston Williamson, Ove Arup & Partners, and Davis Langdon & Everest
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Cost model: Call centres
Call centres, the new information factories, are evolving as employers recognise that the working environment can affect business efficiency and staff turnover. Cost consultants Davis Langdon Everest and Mott Green Wall examine the specification and costs of call centres
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Cost model update, March 1999
In its second cost model update, Davis Langdon Everest examines how the prices of four key building types – business parks, hotels, offices and supermarkets – have been affected by change
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Archive Titles
Cost model - Urban Commercial Offices
Background to the model Capital costs for services installations were previously examined in a cost model published in the September 1995 edition of Building Services Journal. The sample of projects the original model was based on were mostly designed prior to the issue of the British Council for Offices (BCO) ...
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Cost model: Airports
Sustained rates of growth in air traffic are resulting in a continuous demand for increased airport capacity. In this month s cost model, the Airports Specialist Group of cost consultant Davis Langdon Everest examines the construction costs of airport facilities, along with commercial development on the airport campus ...
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FeaturesHigh-Rise Office Towers - Cost model, May 1997
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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FeaturesOffice fit-out - Cost model, December 1997
High levels of activity in the office development market are generating significant opportunities in the office fit-out sector. In contrast to the office boom of the late 1980s, a high proportion of investment in office space is being secured with pre-let agreements which which is creating opportunities to integrate base-build ...
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FeaturesOffice Refurbishments - Cost model, February 1996
Upgrading 20- to 30-year-old offices to give them a new lease of life is one of the few growth areas in the commercial sector. Over the past 12 months, architectural commissions have almost doubled and now account for 28% of the office development market. QS Davis Langdon & Everest looks ...
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FeaturesOffices of the Future - Cost model, September 1996
Businesses in the 1990s are demanding much more from their office space. The growth of flexible working practices, a developing green agenda and the demands of information technology are creating a distinctive office architecture. In this cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest examines the capital costs behind the new generation ...