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Staircases with style

Defensive estates

Gladedale’s redevelopment of an army garrison at Southend-on-Sea has seen the site transformed into a characterful waterside scheme. Steve Menary reports

NVQ faqs

Over the last eight years, NHBC has been offering NVQs, primarily at management levels. Rob Lockey, NHBC’s training services manager, answers the most frequent…

Metal gurus

Steve Thompson, Corus’ senior architect, and Samir Boudjabeur, Corus’ Manubuild co-ordinator, talk to Allison Heller about the progress of a cutting edge steel…

Powerhouse

Jonathan Schwinge has reinvented the traditional cottage. The director of architectural and product design practice, Schwinge, tells Allison Heller how his 21s…

Market acceleration

The residential property sector has entered a period of unprecedented and unpredicted turmoil, which will fast-track major changes to its structure, argues EC …

Planning decline

Across the UK, housebuilders large and small are pulling in their horns and easing production. Steve Menary assesses the likely impact of this now widespread t…

Thames gateway

James Stevens contends that plans to transform the Thames Gateway have been floundering because of an overreliance on housebuilding activity to foot the infras…

Power struggle

Angela Lemon and Terry Keech, sustainability advisors at Calfordseadon, discuss whether the private sector can in fact afford to build greener homes

Plaster saints

Plasterboards have risen to the regulations challenge and Andrew Leech finds that safe, high impact, sustainable products are the future