Levelling up: collaborating to deliver

2 March 22

How can the private sector bring its skills to deliver the levelling-up agenda through real assets?

Act now for a sustainable future

9 December 21

The built environment covers a diverse range of buildings, from listed historic ones through to the latest in new builds, but the focus must be on decarbonising existing stock, given that 80% of our building requirements for 2050 have already been constructed.

A new platform for regeneration

2 September 21

Real assets provide a great opportunity where real estate meets infrastructure.

It’s time to kickstart a cities revival

27 May 21

As we emerge from the lockdowns and Covid-19 pandemic, our cities eagerly await a new normality and for the streets, pavements, cafés, bars and businesses to again become their vibrant heartbeat.

It’s time for property to transform

25 February 21

In my 2021 predictions, I acknowledged that in many aspects, our thinking had moved forward a decade in 10 months.

A glimmer of hope for our cities

3 December 20

After what, thanks to Covid-19, can only be described as the global annus horribilis that is 2020, we can at least see a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel, thanks to the wonders of science in creating a vaccine.

Building back to a green future

27 August 20

In a speech at the end of June, Boris Johnson said: “This moment gives us a much greater chance to be radical and to do things differently… to build back better… to build back bolder. This infrastructure revolution will allow us to end that chronic failure of the British state: decade after decade we have failed to build enough homes.”

Creating the new office normal

11 June 20

Our CBRE EMEA Occupier Survey 2020, published this week, is a timely reminder of why now more than ever, as we look at returning to office-based work, we need to focus on strategic decision-making that combines the ‘people agenda’ with a robust real estate and technology strategy.

Moving from crisis to opportunity

1 May 20

Covid-19 has had a massive impact on our world. As we go through the three R’s – responding, resilience, reimagining – now is the time to consider how we could emerge to be stronger, leaner and more effective.

Building with the planet in mind

28 February 20

Having supported the launch of the National Infrastructure Commission’s report this month setting out the UK’s first design principles for infrastructure around climate, people, places and value, I have to wonder what role we as built environment professionals should have around the environmental, social and corporate governance agenda. The answer, I believe, is a huge one.