Cladding crisis 'deepens': new study warns that UK industry faces capacity shortage worse than late 1980s boom
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A government-funded study of the UK cladding industry undertaken by Bath University's Centre for Window and Cladding Technology concludes that a capacity crisis is looming. The six-month study reveals that the industry will find it more difficult to satisfy current requirements than it did in the boom of the late 1980s. There is an increasing shortage of specialist subcontractors and of companies able to take on large contracts. The report suggests ways construction can improve its use of cladding.
Publication Name: Building
Subject: Construction and materials industries
ISSN: 0007-3318
Year: 1997
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Five QSs bid for Whitehall relocations
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Property Advisers to the Civil Estate (PACE) has shortlisted EC Harris, Gleeds, Gardiner and Theobald, Turner and Townsend, AYH and agent Drivers Jonas for the 'term' commission to deal with all UK government office relocations in the south-east over the next three years. PACE is taking this approach because it does not wish to invest additional time in advertising for consultants for each separate relocation. It manages around 300,000 sq mt of offices in London, England.
Publication Name: Building
Subject: Construction and materials industries
ISSN: 0007-3318
Year: 1996
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