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Communal heating or triple glazing: which costs a developer less?
A planning authority told our client that individual heat pumps would only be acceptable with triple glazing. We were asked to work out which was cheaper.
Mark Stevens FRICS, Director
4 days ago5 min read
What a 60-unit scheme now carries before a single brick is laid
Statutory and planning costs have been accumulating one at a time, each announced separately and each absorbed separately. Added together they are no longer a line in the appraisal.
Mark Stevens FRICS, Director
Aug 313 min read
A fifth of our bricks are now imported, and that is a specification risk before it is a cost one
Domestic brick production has fallen and imports have filled the gap. For a developer that shows up as specification risk long before it shows up as rate.
Mark Stevens FRICS, Director
Jul 272 min read
BCIS expects tender prices up 15.5% by 2031. That is not a contingency, and it should not be sitting in one
Forecast inflation and risk are two different things and putting them in the same line of an appraisal is how a scheme ends up under-funded while looking prudent on paper.
Mark Stevens FRICS, Director
Jul 62 min read
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