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FeaturesCost model: Prefabrication and preassembly
How can prefabrication and preassembly deliver the buildings that clients and designers aspire to? In this cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest looks at case studies of recent applications of preassembly techniques
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Cost study: Housing for young people
Harlow Foyer, a Housing Forum demonstration project for housing young people, used timber-frame construction and partnering principles to come in on time and on budget.
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Cost model: Procuring social housing
The Housing Corporation is pushing housing associations into adopting the partnering and prefabrication ethos of the Egan agenda. Davis Langdon & Everest looks at how they are responding to the challenges of smart procurement, with case studies from two pathfinding schemes
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Cost study: Day centres and sheltered housing
How much should a PFI care home cost? This study looks at where the money went on a 拢2.19m design-and-build contract for two day centres and sheltered housing for 50 elderly people in west London. Compiled by ECD Architects and Head Projects
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Cost model: Urban design and infrastructure
Infrastructure and public realm projects are a key component of the strategies to regenerate urban districts drawn up by Lord Rogers’ taskforce. Davis Langdon & Everest, with urban designer EDAW, examine the funding, procurement and cost of the schemes that will bring people back to the city
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Cost study: Sustainable low-energy housing
Sixteen sustainable low-energy houses and flats were constructed in Glasgow for 拢60,900 each. This low capital price was achieved despite building in sophisticated environmental features that will significantly cut whole-life costs.
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Cost model: Land remediation
Land remediation is becoming a growth sector as government targets for brownfield development have been increased. In this month s cost model, Davis Langdon Everest looks at new laws on contaminated land and details the cost of clean-up techniques
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Cost study: Council housing refurbishment
A deck-access council-housing block in Hackney, east London, has been radically refurbished by being chopped into three free-standing blocks