ICG snaps up £200m portfolio as South African investor sours on UK market

The portfolio of five UK distribution centres totalling almost 1m sq ft was sold by Equites Property Group. The post ICG snaps up £200m portfolio as South African investor sours on UK market appeared first on Property Week.

Standing Seam vs Metal Cladding: A Commercial Roofer’s Guide for UK Specifiers

The post Standing Seam vs Metal Cladding: A Commercial Roofer’s Guide for UK Specifiers appeared first on UK Construction Blog. Most articles comparing standing seam and metal cladding are written for self-builders putting a roof on a barn. This one is for the people specifying roofs on warehouses, schools, distribution centres, sports facilities and commercial buildings, where the wrong call costs five or six figures to put right. We’re commercial roofing contractors in London and […]

Surrey specialist calls in administrators

Design-and-build specialist Marbank Construction Ltd has appointed administrators. The £67m-turnover firm, which was headquartered in Byfleet, Surrey, specialised in commercial buildings, retail parks and distribution centres. Formed in 1994, its revenue reached £91m in its 2008 financial year, when it operated as a general design… The post Surrey specialist calls in administrators appeared first on Construction News.

Warrens takes 514,000 sq ft at Prologis’s Daventry rail terminal

Logistics real estate owner and developer Prologis UK has leased two new distribution centres totalling around 514,000 sq ft to transport and logistics provider Warrens, part of Culina Group, at RFI DIRFT (Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal).

Bechtel to build warehouses in Zambia to get homegrown maize to market

Bechtel’s social enterprise, bechtel.org, has teamed up with development agency USAID to build distribution centres in Zambia to prevent the wastage of maize, a staple food crop. Zambia is among… The post Bechtel to build warehouses in Zambia to get homegrown maize to market appeared first on Global Construction Review.

Building Magazine - Cost Model - Distribution warehouses, 07072022

The combined impact of inflation plus materials and labour shortages is stretching developers of logistics centres - yet demand for this building type remains high. James Morrison and Gary Marshall of Aecom consider how the industry is responding to the challenges and provide a cost breakdown of a logistics centre

WSJ - Why Global Supply Chains May Never Be the Same, 23032022

Every day, millions of sailors, truck drivers, longshoremen, warehouse workers and delivery drivers keep mountains of goods moving into stores and homes to meet consumers’ increasing expectations of convenience. But this complex movement of goods underpinning the global economy is far more vulnerable than many imagined

Bloomberg - The Way We Get Everything Is Going Electric, 06052021

There’s a wide world of delivery logistics going on behind the scenes in the U.S., one that's become central to everyday life. And yet, most of us are completely oblivious to its environmental cost. But thanks to a handful of ambitious startups, there’s an electric revolution happening that may be perfectly suited to delivering us a cleaner future.

RICS, Modus - We're gonna need a bigger warehouse 16062021

In part one of our series on post-pandemic building typologies, we look at how a sharp increase in online retail has made the warehousing market hot property