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Go with the flow

What will next year bring? Higher interest rates? A decline in house prices? The combination of the two can have a devastating impact on your company's cashflo…

Sloppy Service

[MMC-IMG=1211-A=Left] The newly completed Scottish Parliament building is certainly striking. But the construction process, which was a catalogue of delays, di…

Annual checkup

NHBC's building control manager, Neil Cooper, along with group technical manager Neil Smith and health and safety manager Simon Mantle have put together a hand…

Spiderman

Victor Savage of planning consultants and surveyors, Savage && Partners, has been inspired by an article in Housebuilder to rewrite a Marmaduke Dixey poem to e…

Logging on

Andrew Leech finds that the timber frame industry is pulling out all the stops in producing accurate timber frames through its investment in high tech machiner…

The insulation game

Insulation manufacturers are confident they will meet proposed changes to Part L. Tim Palmer reports on the latest wall and floor solutions, designed to avoid …

Peter Russell - Charlton Homes

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Lie of the land

A new report on land use planning in Scotland is calling for serious reform if the country's housing needs are to be tackled. Jim Ross, managing director of Ca…

Scots free

The Scottish housebuilding market has its own set of planning and land use challenges, some similar to those in England, others rather different. Here Bruce Wa…