One of the 'Christmas presents' that was awaiting me when I returned to work this week was the Treasury's Infrastructure UK (IUK) report 'Infrastructure Cost Review' which was published in December just in time for Santa to put it in his sack.
I sat on a plane at Heathrow for seven and a half hours on Saturday because of two hours of, admittedly heavy, snow.
There is mounting pressure for the construction industry to account for the embodied carbon in the buildings and structures it produces.
The new Output Price Indices (OPI) that we have developed as part of the Office of National Statistics (ONS) new methodology for...
The massive cut back in the schools capital investment programme will put pressure on maintenance budgets.
I recently chaired the first of the 2010 seminars on cost planning and life cycle costing and it made me proud to be a quantity surveyor...
With capital spending programmes under threat, the next few years will see an increased focus on maintenance and operations costs.
How many Pre-Qualification Questionnaires (PQQs) do you complete in a year? How many ask the same questions in a slightly different way? How much money do you waste as a result? How much money does the industry waste in a year?
When the Standardized Methodology of Life Cycle Costing for Construction Procurement (SMLCC) was published in 2008 there was much interest and, some debate about the worked examples.
In 2008, the Government set some challenging targets for house building in England.
BCIS Executive Director Joe Martin's official blog. See what Joe has to say...