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Hotseat - Andrew Weaver

Oct. 1, 2005

[MMC-IMG=1896-A=Right] Strata’s sales and marketing director Andrew Weaver recently splashed out on a Bang && Olufsen sound system – perfect for listening to D…

Thinking big

Oct. 1, 2005

Satvinder Sahota explains how the NHBC’s special projects building inspectors can assist developers on major schemes to help ensure they run smoothly

Delusions of density

Oct. 1, 2005

[MMC-IMG=1893-A=Left] Policymakers looking to influence the size and type of housing supplied to the market should review their approach in light of the maxim …

Going private

Oct. 1, 2005

Steve Menary looks into the growing trend of contractors moving into the private sector housebuilding market

Courting disaster

Oct. 1, 2005

[MMC-IMG=1889-A=Left] Jay Surti (pictured) and Allison Dias from Davies Arnold Cooper explain the implications for developers of forthcoming corporate manslaug…

Winning ways

Oct. 1, 2005

[MMC-IMG=1887-A=Left] Alan Shingler, associate of Sheppard Robson and head of its sustainability group, discusses the firm’s recent success in the Design for M…

Insight manager

Oct. 1, 2005

[MMC-IMG=1884-A=Right] Many of the UK’s volume housebuilders entrust PRP with their developments’ designs. Managing director Chris Rudolf discusses the firm’s …

Design for life

Oct. 1, 2005

Andrew Ogorzalek and Peter Chlapowski of PCKO Architects talk to Allison Heller about how housing design is changing radically in response to buyers’ increasin…

Suits you

Oct. 1, 2005

Allison Heller considers how rising standards of design in volume housebuilding are leading developers to work more closely with architectural consultants than…

No parking here

Oct. 1, 2005

Linden Homes chief executive Philip Davies bemoans the lack of car parking spaces on new developments – a function of government policy that is out of step wit…