All Insight articles – Page 33
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InsightScaling new heights in logistics
As more occupiers start to use automation, warehouse design is having to evolve to keep pace with their needs.
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InsightSEGRO: Green giant
Industrial specialist SEGRO has transformed a fire-damaged industrial site in north London into one of the most sustainable warehouse developments in the UK.
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InsightWhy renewables make sense for I&L firms
With soaring inflation and rising energy costs, many businesses are getting serious about investing in renewable solutions to reduce their operational expenditure.
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InsightQ&A: Five minutes with Sophie Watkin, Trammell Crow Company’s UK planning director
Trammell Crow Company’s UK planning director, Sophie Watkin, on giving back, The Traitors and supporting Sheffield Utd.
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InsightBusiness parks offer modern solutions
With many businesses transitioning to a hybrid working model or implementing more collaborative working practices, the traditional functions of warehousing units are increasingly less relevant as more adaptable uses become prevalent.
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InsightThe benefits of timber
In northern Italy, Cromwell Property Group is developing wooden logistics buildings, which we believe will create an important case study to help inform the industry about the benefits of using timber.
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InsightWood you believe it?
Last week I chaired a Property Week half-day conference as part of our Climate Crisis Challenge campaign, held in a suitably sustainable venue: The Office Group’s recently completed Black & White Building in London’s fashionable Shoreditch.
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InsightBlue skies ahead
The industrial and logistics market might be softening but, as UK managing director of GLP Europe Bruce Topley tells Andrew Saunders, that doesn’t mean it is heading from boom to bust.
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InsightIndustrial & Logistics supplement February 2023
SEGRO launches its most sustainable warehouse yet - GLP Europe’s MD remains upbeat on sector’s future - Use of robots allows for taller warehouses - Five minutes with Trammell Crow Company’s Sophie Watkin
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InsightSharp drop in I&L spend at the tail end of 2022
Investment in industrial and logistics properties plummeted in Q4 2022 after the strongest-ever start to a year.
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InsightGove cuts through leasehold jungle
Housing secretary Michael Gove has been accused of many things – being a “betrayer” for one – but as head of many government departments he has been an incorrigible reformer and enforcer. That is why former prime ministers David Cameron and Boris Johnson relied on him so heavily.
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InsightGovernment must step up to solve cladding crisis
What tends to get lost in the debates around cladding is the fact that this crisis originates from a failure to properly regulate. The building regulations that are in operation, the building control system, permitted development that was intrinsically unsafe… and there were enough warnings through enough fires for government ...
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InsightPeter Bill on artificial certitude, real estate certainty
Last week, Microsoft founder Bill Gates suggested the coming of artificial intelligence (AI) was “every bit as important as the PC and the internet”. So I decided to put the much-touted AI app Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) to the test.
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InsightJo Cowen of Jo Cowen Architects on the Viability Crisis of 2023
Last year saw unprecedented macro geopolitical and economic uncertainty, rampant global inflation, war in the Ukraine and a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
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InsightLondon Gateway open for growth
The logistics site on the north bank of the Thames estuary plays a central role in the capital’s supply chain. Property Week talks to development director Oliver Treneman about its ambitious expansion plans.
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InsightConstruction PR’s Sarah Kauter on sustainable construction trends to look out for
Ensuring your business is doing everything in its power to stay ahead of the latest industry trends has always been essential to success, and with the challenges faced by the industry throughout 2022 – including the cost-of-living crisis, extravagant energy costs and material shortages – this has never proved truer.
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InsightNEAT Developments’ Youssef Kadiri on stacked industrial
The latest version of the London Plan included some subtle but significant changes to industrial land policies, particularly Policy E7, which protected strategic industrial land from exploitation by housebuilders.
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InsightSAY Property Consulting’s Debra Yudolph on BTR and the cost-of-living crisis
How should the build-to-rent sector respond to the cost-of-living crisis, and how will it shape future development?
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InsightThe circle of life sciences
This week I learned a new word, although I’m not sure it’s a real one that has made it into any dictionaries. ‘Cycology’ is the belief that events will run in predictable cycles, with the implied hope that you can make better decisions if you can see where you are ...
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InsightGet in the zone with regen leases
At the Convention of the North in Manchester on 25 January, housing secretary Michael Gove announced the government’s recommitment to investment zones. The initiative will allow some local authorities to designate sites that will be earmarked for tax cuts, relaxed regulation and planning simplifications within that area.
