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A bank that doesn’t go far enough?

Construction Law

One thing that can be confidently said about the newly announced National Infrastructure Bank (NIB) is that it won’t be funding very much of the procurement of the UK’s national infrastructure. Adverse comparisons are being made with the scale of the European Investment Bank funding that has been lost post Brexit, which was some £5 Billion.

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Solutions to Housing Affordability

Pro Builder

If you’ve ever conducted a survey or hosted a focus group that allowed participants to freely voice their opinions, you know the risk that comes with that endeavor: a wildly disparate, mostly thoughtful, occasionally profane, and (almost) always insightful stew of comments that leaves you wishing you’d never asked the question in the first place.

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Contractors Should Beware of Recovery Risks | ENR: Engineering.

ENR Construction

Banking & Credit Crisis. Contractors Should Beware of Recovery Risks. Description: Contractors face recovery risk when they take on too much work after they’ve depleted their staff, cash and other resources. Industry forecasts. Risk management. BONUS: ENR Future Tech & ENR Risk Review at no additional charge.

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The Secret Sauce to Protecting Construction Profits  

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Bank failures, rising interest rates, high material prices, and labor crunches are all making it more challenging for construction companies to protect, let alone, improve their margins. And the pressure is rising. Little to no project or business predictability Most construction projects are like a unique snowflake.

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15 Management Systems to Help You Avoid the High-Speed Wobbles

Pro Builder

Unprepared home builders experiencing rapid growth run the risk of squandering opportunities during the best decade in housing’s history. The result: builders operating in crisis mode and running the risk of stall-out and failure. b) Allows for cash flow forecasting. d) Facilitates cash flow forecasting. Chuck Shinn. .

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How Brexit Will Affect The Construction Industry – Infographics

Lets Build

As a member of the EU, the UK had access to the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Investment Fund (EIF). This is another risk for the UK with no clear-cut answers. Without new sources of funding, the UK is at risk of being an unattractive investment.

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Commercial Real Estate Recovery To Accelerate In 2014

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JLL’s Global Market Perspective (Q4 2013) points out the surprising upsides in investment sales volume in 2013, largely attributed to the weight of money flowing into the asset class, an improving lending environment, the heightened appetite for risk and investors’ movement into secondary markets.