Insights & Reports

Net Zero Carbon and Electricity Demand – Binding Targets, Barriers and Bonuses

By 2035 the UK has a target to decarbonise the whole electricity system for Great Britain (GB), whilst also increasing demand for electricity by 50% over the same period.

The Impact of AI on the UK Real Estate Sector’s Productivity

Our starting point when thinking about how AI is going to impact productivity across the real estate sector must be to understand what it is that we are dealing with.

Putting Cambridge in the Productivity Premier League

Urban town planning is often a delicate balance between economic ambition, environmental concerns, and societal well-being but it can stumble due to its own overly complex bureaucracy.

Place, Planning, Productivity

It’s well-documented that productivity is flatlining across the UK.

Impacting Productivity: A Developer’s Perspective

In the face of the UK’s productivity crisis, addressing the issue requires a multifaceted approach that goes beyond traditional economic measures. An often-overlooked factor is the social impact of developments on local communities.

Overcoming infrastructure barriers to renewable energy

Low carbon, low cost, and a secure supply of electricity is central to a sustainable and productive economy. However, building the generation and getting the power to where it is needed is not without its hurdles.

Productivity, Work, and the Future of the Built Environment

As an architect, our promise in the products we deliver to the world is that they will work to uncover challenges to solve problems through opportunities that change the world around us for the better.

Attracting and retaining talent hinges on holistic housebuilding

As one of the UK’s leading investors in rental communities, Apache has expanded its focus to suburban areas through its Present Made platform in recent years.

Pioneering Productivity

As the UK seeks to boost productivity levels, innovative companies and ecosystems are emerging as key drivers of growth.

Productivity Engine: Foreword from Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy

A society’s productivity, the key to its prosperity and living standards, reflects the outcome of decisions taken over many years or even decades. Britain’s flatlining productivity today reflects the disappearance of this long-term perspective.

The quiet hum of a highly productive economy

It’s 2040. The UK is directly feeling the benefits of its 2030s quantum innovation and is now running a highly productive economy. You can feel and almost hear a constant, powerful hum. It’s the soundtrack to a new era of British innovation and prosperity: the hum of quantum technology.

Innovating in construction: A work in progress

The UK construction industry has a productivity problem. Construction output per hour worked is lower than in manufacturing, financial and business services, and utilities.