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Utilities consultancy expert Chris Trew joins Turner & Townsend alinea

We are pleased to announce that we have strengthened our Specialist Services team by appointing Chris Trew as Director. With over 35 years of industry experience, Chris is an expert ...

Turner & Townsend alinea co-host roundtable on The Private Sector Playbook

Landsec and Turner & Townsend alinea recently co-hosted a roundtable event with leaders of prominent cost management firms and co-authors of 'Trust and Productivity - The Private Sector Playbook', which ...

Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) International Conference: In Review

With the conclusion of the recent Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) International Conference, Turner & Townsend alinea Director, Steve Watts shares his review and reflections on a ...

Back to Business: The newly restored Lloyd’s Underwriting Room has reopened its doors

Turner & Townsend alinea has provided cost management services on ‘Project Together,’ the newly reopened Lloyd’s Underwriting Room. The world’s oldest hotdesking space has been sensitively modernised and after closing ...

Economic Week in Review (EWiR): The 400th one

This week we are celebrating the 400th edition of the Economic Week in Review (EWiR). To commemorate this milestone, we are taking a look back at some of the news we’ve ...

The Calm After the Storm: The O2 Permanent Canopy Replacement achieves Practical Completion

Turner & Townsend alinea are delighted to have been part of the team that brought The O2 permanent canopy replacement project to Practical Completion last month. We first started working on ...

TTalinea London Market Report, Summer 2023: ‘From chaos to creativity’

The global economy is in an incredible state of flux, with a variety of pressures affecting construction confidence and pricing in the UK. In our latest London Real Estate Market report ...

Work Experience Summer Placements 2023: The Journey So Far

A Summer Placement is an excellent way to gain valuable insight into the world of work and experience a professional environment. It offers hands-on, practical experience and provides reassurance about ...

The Private Construction Playbook explained: A RICS journal article by Associate Director Marissa Stenning

In an article for RICS journal, Associate Director, Marissa Stenning, examines the benefits that the private construction playbook aims to achieve to transform productivity in the private sector following the success of the ...

Tower Hamlets Town Hall has received its first award from the Future Cities Forum

We are delighted that the recent retrofit of Tower Hamlets Town Hall has received its first award from the Future Cities Forum. 21 built environment projects were shortlisted across seven categories and Tower ...

One Thames City achieves practical completion

Last week we celebrated the practical completion of Phase 1 works for One Thames City. The team have been on the project since 2018, so it’s great to see all ...

8 Bishopsgate team celebrates Practical Completion

On Thursday 13th July, Andrew Gray, Mark Day, Mark Lacey, Jay Pearman, Kostas Dellas and Joe Rutledge attended the 8 Bishopsgate Practical Completion party. The building achieved PC back on 19th ...

Steve Mudie attended and received an award at the 10th Schüco Excellence Awards

Director and Turner & Townsend alinea façade specialist Steve Mudie, attended the 10th Schüco Excellence Awards last Thursday, which took place in the amazing space below the Cutty Sark. All ...

2023 CTBUH Frankfurt Regional Conference: In Review

Last week, Directors John Lione and Steve Watts, and Senior Project Surveyor Andy Gray, attended the CTBUH Frankfurt Regional Conference. The theme of this year’s event was ‘Full Circle: The Life ...

International Pride Day

Happy International Pride Day from us all at Turner & Townsend alinea! Today we celebrate LGBTQ+ communities all around the world. Pride is about acceptance, awareness, education in pride history and ...

2023 CTBUH Frankfurt Regional Conference

Directors John Lione and Steve Watts, and Senior Project Surveyor Andy Gray, are looking forward to attending the CTBUH Frankfurt Regional Conference this week. Taking place this Thursday and Friday, the ...

Sustainability: The EPC B Challenge Breakfast Forum

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our ‘Sustainability: The EPC B Challenge’ breakfast forum last week. The government has pledged to require all commercial non-domestic buildings to achieve EPC ...

BCO Annual Conference 2023: In Review

Last week Directors Angela Joseph, Carl Giles, Alastair Kenyon, Mark Lacey, Sally Marshall and Oliver Sneath had the pleasure of attending the BCO Annual Conference in Dublin. We were delighted ...

Turner & Townsend alinea has been selected to participate in the CTBUH Mentoring Program

We are thrilled that we have been selected to participate in the CTBUH Mentoring Program. Mentors: Nic Di Santo, Director Steve Watts, Director Mark Day, Director Michael Cracknell, Director Jonathan Smith, ...

BCO Annual Conference | Dublin 2023

Carl Giles, Angela Joseph, Mark Lacey, Alastair Kenyon, Sally Marshall & Oliver Sneath are looking forward to attending the BCO Annual Conference in Dublin next month. The event will take place ...

Schüco Facade Excellence Awards

Director, Steve Mudie was part of the judging panel for the Schüco Facade Excellence awards last Thursday, amongst an esteemed group of architects and industry experts. This years judging took ...

8 Bishopsgate Tour

We took some of our new T&T colleagues for a site tour of 8 Bishopsgate last week. The 50 floor tower is racing towards practical completion which is expected early ...

RICS UK Building Surveying Conference

Associate Research Analyst, Rachel Coleman took part in a panel discussion at the RICS UK Building Surveying Conference on Wednesday 3rd May. There were around 400 people in the room ...

The Barriers to Mass Timber Construction in High Rise Buildings

On Thursday 27th April Matt Orford, Associate, attended the second CTBUH roundtable discussion on “The Barriers to Mass Timber Construction in High Rise Buildings”. The first discussion, while interesting, was ...

Turner & Townsend alinea attend BCO Awards Lunch 2023

Turner & Townsend alinea attended the BCO Awards Lunch on 25 April at the 5-star Hilton on Park Lane. It was great to see that Warwick Court was shortlisted for ...

Forum – Q4 Market Report: Ride a black swan

We had a fantastic session on Tuesday 28th February presenting our Q4 Market Report - Ride a black swan. Thanks to Directors, Mark Lacey, Steve Watts & Research Associate Director, Rachel Coleman. The session ...

Kingston University: BIM for the QS

BIM Associate, Richard Bates was asked to return to Kingston University as guest lecturer this week. He presented to level 4 and 5 students on BIM for the QS: what ...

Turner & Townsend and alinea join forces to disrupt real estate cost management in London

Turner & Townsend, the global professional services business, and alinea, the London-based cost consultancy, have reached an agreement to join forces, establishing a unique and disruptive force in the capital’s ...

Retrofit versus Renew

Tom Atkinson, Partner at alinea will be presenting alongside a great panel at the 'Retrofit versus Renew' event on Wednesday 8th February. The event will present insights from a designer, cost ...

MEP Roundtable | January 2023

It was great to welcome the key players in the London MEP contracting market to our roundtable sessions this week, to discuss “let’s make MEP affordable again”.  The two sessions ...

CoreNet Global: Young Leader Spring Social

We are proud to be sponsoring the CoreNet Global social networking event at the Electric Shuffle in Bermondsey. We look forward to hosting friends, colleagues and clients at the event with co-sponsors Overbury, Mix ...

Tall ain’t what it used to be

Steve Watts is delivering a speech in Rotterdam this evening (Wednesday 11th January) on the future of tall buildings, to an invited audience of around 90 people representing the spectrum ...

Florattica, London

Florattica, a hidden oasis high above the City of London in The Minories, East London, is finally open. It has its own ground floor entrance and a rooftop terrace with sweeping ...

23-storey Canary Wharf life sciences building

Our latest Market Report – Q4

We are pleased to be sharing with you our latest Market Report: Ride a black swan The report features: - Economic Outlook - What's ahead - Materials - Low supplies to high energy - ...

CTBUH Conference 2022

alinea’s City Walk for St Clare Hospice

On the 11th November, a team of 45 from alinea consulting set out to raise money for our partner charity, St Clare Hospice, by walking 4 miles through the City ...

APC Congratulations!

We are delighted to share the fantastic news that Dominic has passed his APC. We are ending the year on a high, this is an outstanding achievement which reflect his ...

Regents Wharf Topping Out

We recently attended the topping out ceremony of the BentallGreenOak scheme Regents Wharf.  Situated along the Regents Canal near to Kings Cross. This is a mixed-use campus style scheme providing ...

Archiboo Awards 2022

We were delighted to sponsor and present the Best Visual Design Award to BVN at the 2022 Archiboo Awards.  The Archiboo awards is the only awards programme of its kind, ...

alinea’s City Walk for St Clare Hospice

On the 11th November, alinea will be taking on a 4 mile team walk through London for our charity partner St Clare hospice. We will be stopping at some of ...

Trust and Productivity: the private sector construction playbook

We delighted to announce that we have joined forces with leading organisations across the UK construction sector to produce ‘𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸’. Mark Lacey, alinea Partner ...

Investing in our future: alinea conference 2022

We are very pleased to share some of our favourite memories from our recent staff conference in Paris. To kick off the trip, we held our yearly conference presentations, reflecting on ...

Cost Comparison: Upgrade or Renew

We are very pleased to be sharing with you our latest article ‘Upgrade or Renew’.  To meet net zero targets, owners must bring their buildings up to scratch. Whether to do ...

Michael Cracknell joins alinea

We are delighted to announce that we have appointed Michael Cracknell as a Partner within our growing cost consultancy practice. Michael joins from Deloitte where he was Head of their Cost ...

Macmillan Coffee Morning 2022

On 4th October, alinea hosted a Macmillan Coffee Morning. The event was designed to promote awareness of the fantastic work the charity does throughout the year and it was a ...

One Bishopsgate Plaza wins Hotel of the Year

We were delighted to see Pan Pacific’s One Bishopsgate Plaza win the Hotel of the Year, London at the AA Hospitality Awards yesterday. This was a truly amazing project and ...

BCO National Awards

Good luck to all the finalists for the BCO National Awards this evening. We have really enjoyed supporting the judging process - Mark Lacey as a regional awards judge for London ...