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Built environment
The built environment is complex, with challenge and opportunity across both new construction and existing building stock. We believe that the long-term fundamentals of supply and demand remain positive in mature economies and that there are clear opportunities to export best practice internationally.
We see long-run trends across infrastructure investment, use of online, regulation, decarbonization, and new methods of construction that unlock global markets for players with the right strategy. With the winners likely to be defined by their ability to navigate shifting demand on the built environment, as well as stretch on the supply-side, we help our clients to focus and prioritize.
Decarbonization: identifying changes to the product set and key innovations to inform positioning, investment and market entry.
Modular construction: modeling adoption of various new methods of construction from panelised to full volumetric systems, to identify the winners.
Increasing regulation and compliance: tracking a range of new technical building services, systems and platforms that are being adopted internationally.
Managing skills shortage: identifying the features of businesses that can manage supply-side stretch and recruit, train and retain skilled labor.
Online platforms: tracking the models that are ready for the move to online distribution and influence, as well as cloud-based planning and BIM systems.
Smart buildings: considering shifts in building products and services into the built environment enabled by better monitoring and data analytics.
Upgrading infrastructure: our modeling highlights the basis for long-term growth in investment internationally, from housing to transport to energy.
Decarbonization: identifying changes to the product set and key innovations to inform positioning, investment and market entry.
Modular construction: modeling adoption of various new methods of construction from panelised to full volumetric systems, to identify the winners.
Increasing regulation and compliance: tracking a range of new technical building services, systems and platforms that are being adopted internationally.
Managing skills shortage: identifying the features of businesses that can manage supply-side stretch and recruit, train and retain skilled labor.
Online platforms: tracking the models that are ready for the move to online distribution and influence, as well as cloud-based planning and BIM systems.
Smart buildings: considering shifts in building products and services into the built environment enabled by better monitoring and data analytics.
Upgrading infrastructure: our modeling highlights the basis for long-term growth in investment internationally, from housing to transport to energy.
Construction sector forecasting: we have proprietary econometric models to forecast construction sectors in partnership with international data sources.
Market entry: a strong track record of supporting clients with market entry into new product and service markets both domestically and internationally.
Operational guidance: we have significant in-house experience of operational change, network optimization and site rationalization supported by advanced analytics tools.
Site expansion strategy: our analytics tools allow us to prove correlations between successful sites and situational factors to inform acquisition and roll-out strategies.
Pricing strategy: we help clients to optimize pricing using customer research and data analysis, supported by our in-house pricing team.
Sales effectiveness and improvement: we have tools to develop a pipeline of opportunities in the market for our clients and analyze conversion to identify areas for improvement.
Construction sector forecasting: we have proprietary econometric models to forecast construction sectors in partnership with international data sources.
Market entry: a strong track record of supporting clients with market entry into new product and service markets both domestically and internationally.
Operational guidance: we have significant in-house experience of operational change, network optimization and site rationalization supported by advanced analytics tools.
Site expansion strategy: our analytics tools allow us to prove correlations between successful sites and situational factors to inform acquisition and roll-out strategies.
Pricing strategy: we help clients to optimize pricing using customer research and data analysis, supported by our in-house pricing team.
Sales effectiveness and improvement: we have tools to develop a pipeline of opportunities in the market for our clients and analyze conversion to identify areas for improvement.
Sensing Change
The long talked about concept of ‘smart buildings’ is finally seeing investment. CIL spoke to over 150 landlords, property managers, agents and suppliers to understand what's happening in the sector.
Building Products: a changing market
The building products market has matured in recent years, with national lockdowns causing a rapid shift in how these businesses go to market and think about their primary customer. In this video, John Declerck, Non-Executive Director at IBMG and National Timber Group, joins CIL's James de La Salle to discuss how builders merchants are changing propositions to respond to the pressures of online and decarbonization.
Heating up
In this report, CIL explores the challenges faced on the journey to decarbonizing Europe’s homes, and how current narratives overlook the complexity of the options available. We examine the challenge of heat pumps being a poor mass substitute for gas combi boilers and consider electric systems as an alternative.
