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Mind the Gap: Are We Heading for a Two-Tier Estate?
Mind the Gap: Are We Heading for a Two-Tier Estate?

Healthcare lead Anastasia Chrysafi tackles big issues arising from this year's Healthcare Estates conference

Four Police Forces, four buildings, one summer
Four Police Forces, four buildings, one summer

Four police forces took on four very different buildings within weeks of each over the summer. Stewart Brundell discusses what they have in common, and what forces should ask of the people who build them.
Growth is coming to the West Midlands. Frameworks decide where it lands.
Growth is coming to the West Midlands. Frameworks decide where it lands.

Willmott Dixon has retained its place on the £3bn Constructing West Midlands framework for its third iteration. Peter Owen argues that a publicly owned regional framework is part of the region's growth infrastructure, and sets out what that asks of the contractors on it.
Limited budgets, Growing estate pressures. A greater need to invest
Limited budgets, Growing estate pressures. A greater need to invest

Kelly Crews explains how making your estate climate-change resilient must be about making smarter, evidence-led investment decisions that tackle multiple estate challenges to achieve long-term value.

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Reuse starts with the question many projects fail to ask at Stage 1
Reuse starts with the question many projects fail to ask at Stage 1

Kemi Owoeye

At the British Science Festival, Willmott Dixon brought together engineers, investors, suppliers and academics to ask what it will take to make reuse normal. Kemi Owoeye argues the answer starts earlier than most projects allow.
Mind the Gap: Are We Heading for a Two-Tier Estate?
Mind the Gap: Are We Heading for a Two-Tier Estate?

Anastasia Chrysafi

Healthcare lead Anastasia Chrysafi tackles big issues arising from this year's Healthcare Estates conference

Four Police Forces, four buildings, one summer
Four Police Forces, four buildings, one summer

Stewart Brundell

Four police forces took on four very different buildings within weeks of each over the summer. Stewart Brundell discusses what they have in common, and what forces should ask of the people who build them.
Making room for the future of technical education
Making room for the future of technical education

Charlotte Haddow

For T Levels Week, Principal Social Value Manager, Charlotte Haddow, explores how Willmott Dixon’s new national programme could help colleges widen access to meaningful industry experience.
Work experience should feel like real work
Work experience should feel like real work

Rachel O'Neil

Rachel O’Neil, Senior Social Value Manager, shares how we help T Level students experience the teamwork, decisions and challenges behind a construction project.
How supply chain knowledge is becoming a strategic advantage
How supply chain knowledge is becoming a strategic advantage

Rebecca Lea

Sustainability Manager Rebecca Lea explores why changes to government procurement should not be mistaken for reduced scrutiny of modern slavery, and why deeper supply chain insight is becoming a strategic advantage.
Growth is coming to the West Midlands. Frameworks decide where it lands.
Growth is coming to the West Midlands. Frameworks decide where it lands.

Peter Owen

Willmott Dixon has retained its place on the £3bn Constructing West Midlands framework for its third iteration. Peter Owen argues that a publicly owned regional framework is part of the region's growth infrastructure, and sets out what that asks of the contractors on it.
Grant is no longer the hard part. Delivery capacity is
Grant is no longer the hard part. Delivery capacity is

Stewart Brundell

Of the 33 Strategic Partners named in Homes England's new Social and Affordable Homes Programme (SAHP), only three are councils. With more than £16bn is still to be allocated, Stewart Brundell talks about what has to change before the next round.
Limited budgets, Growing estate pressures. A greater need to invest
Limited budgets, Growing estate pressures. A greater need to invest

Kelly Crews

Kelly Crews explains how making your estate climate-change resilient must be about making smarter, evidence-led investment decisions that tackle multiple estate challenges to achieve long-term value.
T Levels: More Than a Placement
T Levels: More Than a Placement

SARAH FRASER

As students receive their T Level results, Sarah Fraser explores how employers and colleges can help build the construction workforce of the future.
Stage 0: where this new hospital really gets going
Stage 0: where this new hospital really gets going

Anastasia Chrysafi

Eleven Wave 1 schemes have entered contract. Anastasia Chrysafi, National Healthcare Lead and our lead for the Hospital 2.0 Alliance, explains what that milestone starts, and what happens next in Truro.
A new chapter for healthcare in the West Country
A new chapter for healthcare in the West Country

Graham Dundas

The New Hospital Programme’s Hospital 2.0 Alliance has moved from procurement into delivery. Graham Dundas, Chief Executive Officer, on what that means for Cornwall and the way this country builds.
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