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Autumn Budget: Impact on the built environment
1st November 2018 | Chris Evans: Deputy Managing Director
The Autumn Budget brought with it many welcome pledges and some concerning contradictions, all of which will continue to shape all UK towns, cities, infrastructure and the wider built environment. Deputy Managing Director, Chris Evans, shares his thoughts on the Chancellor’s latest budget announcements.
The Late Payment Problem
20th April 2015 | Andrew Chisem
Every time Britain falls to recession, and it’s happened at least three times during my career, organisations grow more hesitant about spending their money.
Resource Responsibility and the Global Carbon Crisis
5th March 2015 | Peter Rolton
Although it doesn’t feel so long ago, it has been almost two years since I wrote about the mounting risk of investing in fossil fuels; in short, great portions of the reserves we are currently spending billions per year to discover and explore will have to remain unburnt if we are to avoid more than 2°C of global temperature rise, leaving eye-wateringly valuable assets stranded under the ground and potentially creating a global financial crash far more serious than the one from which we are just starting to emerge.
Macro to micro: How will volatile global markets affect UK construction?
21st January 2015 | Chris Evans
With Chinese investors treating their stock market like a weekend at the Venetian in Macau, it came as no surprise to see the country’s regulators step in this week to hand a three-month ban to their three biggest brokers on opening new margin accounts, which allow investors to bet big with borrowed money.
UK Housing: Making the Long Journey Home
5th September 2014 | Peter Rolton
When the recession hit, it wiped out livelihoods and decimated entire markets. In the face of a global slump, Britain’s housing sector was no exception; buyers couldn’t afford to buy and builders couldn’t afford to build.
Sustaining the Energy Sector in an Independent Scotland
11th July 2014 | Peter Rolton
The 18th September is now just over two months away, and as the two camps make their final push in persuading Scottish nationals either to stay put in the UK or run from it as quickly as humanly possible, it seems worth taking stock of what the clean energy landscape may look like in a post-referendum, independent Scotland.
Independence vs. Oil Dependence: The Scottish Referendum
4th April 2014 | Peter Rolton
The Scottish independence referendum is drawing near, with an accompanying debate that grows more convoluted by the day. Both sides of the argument have long since reached fever pitch, with the ‘Yes’ team calling foul play over British government’s refusal to allow an independent Scotland access to sterling currency and the ‘No’ team claiming that the SNP will falter when it comes to joining the European Union as a separate state.