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Most firms don’t see retrofit as part of their net zero strategy

Workplace Insight

Of the organisations that prioritise getting non-domestic buildings to net zero, some 73 percent said they aim to do this by 2025 and 30 percent by 2023. Over half of the respondents said they will be operating with the same or lower budgets over the next three years compared to the previous three years.

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Open competition launched to find design team for new museum of architecture and design in Helsinki

Workplace Insight

The total budget of the project is around €105 million, with construction costs of the museum not to exceed €70 million (price level Sept 2023). The entrants selected for Stage 2 of the competition will be notified in December 2024, with Stage 2 opening in February and running until the end of May 2025.

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Companies Are Using This Sneaky Strategy To Avoid Paying Overtime

Allwork

Difficult to identify, harder to quantify Although experts have thought that companies use phony job titles to circumvent overtime payments for years, in January of 2023, the National Bureau of Economic Research, or NBER, released a research paper on employers using titles to avoid overtime payments that quantified these assumptions.

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The challenge for fit-out firms is to deliver best value despite supply chain challenges

Workplace Insight

The background to this inevitably lies in the fiscal constraints, strained project budgets challenged by higher borrowing and construction costs reaching unprecedented highs. The commercial offices sector, too, is forecast to strengthen next year and grow in 2025.

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Lab rats – how the UK life sciences sector is struggling to find space to work

Workplace Insight

In November 2023, plans to turn part of a golf course next to a motorway into a £340 million science park were refused by South Oxfordshire District Council. The joint budget runs to nearly €100bn. The developers are expected to appeal. Horizon Europe is the largest international research collaboration scheme in the world.

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