As demand for construction materials and resources increasingly outstrips global supply, so Davis Langdon must be more creative in our procurement advice to clients and able to reach further into global markets to deliver viable options or solutions into our local markets.

This latest set of articles published by the  firm's ‘International Procurement Group’ sets out reliable anecdotal evidence from our respective markets, which can offer pointers as to how we may better resolve the challenges and shortages of procurement – particularly for large and complex projects – for the future.

The second series of articles covers the following topics:

1. The Affordability of Infrastructure to  Emerging Economies - Alastair Collins of DLSI examines the issues  impacting on the affordability of the development of infrastructure such as transport and power networks in emerging economies.
2. Lifts Off - Barry Nugent of DLSI EME explains the background to one of the research streams being conducted that focuses on the procurement and supply chain implications of globalising lift procurement across a development pipeline. 
3. China: Having its cake and eating it? - PH Lai of DLSI China and Neal Kalita of DLSI EME explain why China as a source of low cost material will soon no longer be the case and discusses some of the complexity behind procuring from the global marketplace.
4. Russia: The bullish bear - Kevin Sims of DLSI EME examines some of the drivers behind Russia’s demand for construction materials, across which sectors and some of the issues affecting development in that territory.

You can take a look at this latest series of articles as well as the first series, published last year, below:

Davis Langdon's ‘International Procurement Group’ was set up in October 2007 led by John Hicks in the UK with the involvement of key representatives from each of our DLSI markets: Africa, Asia, Australia & New Zealand, Europe & Middle East and USA.  Th e  group has the long-term plan of developing a truly worldly knowledge of ‘global procurement’ – what is viable, what could be and what isn’t – and how existing thinking, processes and risk strategies may need to alter to stay on the right side of the competitive wave.  Click here to view Series 1.