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Improving Sustainability in the Construction Industry: A Complete Guide for 2025

UK Construction Blog

Sustainable construction delivers measurable economic benefits, including reduced operational costs, higher property values (3-15% rental premiums), and access to government incentives, whilst circular economy approaches can boost profitability by up to 26%.

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How to Create an Independent Government Cost Estimate

Job Order Contracting

What is an Independent Government Cost Estimate? An IGCE (also in construction related service an IGE) is a cost estimate developed by the Government Requiring Activity, based on the requirements of the Performance Work Statement (PWS) or Statement of Work (SOW). Five primary questions to be answered are: 1.

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Impact of Digital Transformation on the Construction Industry

CCR Magazine

The construction industry is one of the oldest and most important fields and has changed a lot over the years. It started with simple methods and basic tools, then moved to using heavy machinery, making work faster and larger. Now, digital transformation is a big change that is even more significant than anything before.

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The three Ps of prefabricated EIFS: Preparation, production, placement

Construction Specifier

While fully adhered systems offer certain advantages, their water management performance depends entirely on the quality of the installation, specifically, the quality of the drainage plane, which is rarely verified. Successful prefabricated cladding projects clearly delineate the prefabricated and field-installed portions of the work.

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Deep energy retrofits: The future of sustainable buildings

Construction Specifier

As the global focus on sustainability and climate change intensifies, the United States is seeing a new trend in building restoration-deep energy retrofits. Although additional work can be done to increase renewable energy sources beyond wind and solar to augment carbon energy consumption. C above pre-industrial levels.

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Planners’ leader to run CIOB

The Construction Index

Hills joined RTPI in 2018 and is credited with having made the organisation more outward-facing and dynamic, engaging more effectively with stakeholders and members. During my time at the RTPI I have worked hard to ensure that planning has been driven up the agenda. Email news@theconstructionindex.co.uk

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Your plan isn’t strategic

Civil + Structural Engineer

While it is important to ensure that formal mechanisms governing how employees get work done (structure, processes, systems, and incentives) are in place, these internal factors should serve as growth enablers to help fuel external growth opportunities, not just satisfy the core or improve the status quo. Are we on target?” “How