Features

Development of the month - First light

The Aurora in Lanarkshire, Scotland, is a Code level four home boasting timber frame, solar panels and a ground source heat pump. But the home will never be li…

The Last Word - Facing facts

Stephen Byfield, managing director of communications consultant PPS, argues that while the housebuilding industry has much to learn from digital communication,…

Connect & control

Housebuilders and utility companies have not always had the best relationship, the downturn adding to the common problem of delays. But Tim Palmer looks at the…

Building sites

Websites are the most essential tool in a housebuilder’s marketing armoury. Andrew Leech finds that they save time and money and could move sales in the right …

the innovators

In the face of a downturn housebuilders are being asked to raise standards and meet new regulations. Thank goodness, then, for the innovators –suppliers of sys…

Web consultancy

With the Action Plan consultation website now live and concerns over the potential skills gap continuing to be a major concern in the industry, NHBC’s Rob Lock…

Right to comply

On April 1 the new Consumer Code for Home Builders came into force. Rod MacEachrane, interim chairman of the consumer code management board, explains how house…

High diving

Grainger is the UK’s largest quoted residential property owner in Britain and also has a lively and innovative development arm. Ben Roskrow talks to Grainger’s…

Piling power

Good result

Steve Morgan is back in the industry and he has a lot to say – about the mistakes of the past, today’s planners, trendy design critics, the Tories and Wolves d…