Insights & Reports

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.

One size (doesn’t) fit all by Mark Woodrow COO, Packaged Living

The UK economy, and social mobility of British people, are held back by the lack of availability of an appropriate range of housing options, according to new research from the free market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs.

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.

Saying Yes to more housing and higher productivity

As productivity lags, wages can’t keep up with rents and mortgages; so, for far too many, a home of their own now seems out of reach. We simply haven’t built enough of them, undermining our young people’s potential for a prosperous future.

Bridging the Gap: why do we need to think beyond traditional R&D labs?

The creation of any ready-to-use product from Research & Development (R&D) needs to consider the ‘five Ps’ of Good Manufacturing Process (GMP): 1. a clear Product, 2. skilled People, 3. clear Processes, 4. correct Procedures, and 5. clean, safe and appropriate Premises.

How East West Rail will boost the UK’s productivity

The Oxford to Cambridge region is home to the most productive life sciences cluster in Europe, with 300 companies contributing £2.9 billion to the UK economy, creating jobs and attracting investment for the whole country.

Quantum leap: harnessing the power of proximity

Oxford Technology Park (OTP) prime location next to the University of Oxford’s Begbroke Science Park positions it to drive innovation.

Government needs to shift the narrative from housing numbers to delivery to secure a sustainable future for the nation

Addressing the housing crisis requires a portfolio of solutions, from the renewal of our towns and cities, to the creation of new settlements that can provide genuinely affordable homes in healthy communities.