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Consultancy Today briefing: Friday 6 November 2026
Six stories from the last 24 hours and one date for the week ahead.
Stories from the last 24 hours
Core Five marks practical completion of £200m One Exchange Square retrofit at Broadgate
The cost consultant and employer's agent has seen the 13-storey Broadgate scheme through from feasibility in December 2020 to handover, with FTI Consulting already signed up as an occupier on 15-year leases.
RICS Q3 monitor shows workloads at -7% as credit outlook and housing weaken
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' Q3 2026 UK Construction Monitor records a sixth negative quarter for workloads, with private housing at -18% and short-term credit expectations falling to -36%.
RLB collects Defence Employer Recognition Scheme Gold award after ceremony
The cost and project management consultancy has moved from the Silver award it announced in August 2024 to Gold, which it describes as the Ministry of Defence's highest employer recognition.
Childerstone hires Landsec project management head Paul Langham as director
The four-year-old project consultancy has appointed Paul Langham, formerly Head of Project Management at Landsec, as a London-based director focusing on commercial real estate.
SOCOTEC UK & Ireland buys bridge inspection consultancy Inertia in seventeenth deal since 2017
The testing, inspection and certification group has added the bridge engineering and structural inspection specialist, bringing 50 staff and offices in Derby, Falkirk, Cwmbran and Cheshire into its infrastructure business.
Environment Agency consults on seven permit exemptions for construction in England
The regulator has opened its first consultation on new environmental permitting exemptions, ahead of powers to make, revise and revoke them, with responses due by 29 December 2026.
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Published on weekday mornings. Every item comes from a story Consultancy Today has already published and checked against its sources, from dates organisers have published, or from our data trackers. See the events and awards calendar, or get the week's stories by email with the weekly newsletter.