Redrow reviews southern operation
Window dressing
Both timber and PVCu manufacturers are meeting the growing demand for bespoke window designs as customers strive to achieve differentiation in new homes. Tim P…
Doors of perception
Allison Heller gets the lowdown on garage door trends, and finds out the meaning of Kanban and Kaizan
Opening time
Andrew Leech finds the role for doors in new housing is not simply an open and shut case
Fluid thinking
Competition in the utility laying sector could save housebuilders thousands of pounds a year. But, as Steve Menary reports, some water companies are not keen t…
Wharf factor
Country && Metropolitan boss Stephen Wicks talks to Steve Menary about the firm’s ambitious Granary Wharf scheme in Leeds and the Middlesex firm’s drive for gr…
Matters facts
Housebuilder’s legal team from Campbell Hooper - Heather O’Sullivan, Sara Hampson, Stuart Jordan and Bill Bidder - this month tackle reserved matters, collater…
Prefab progress
The government has hailed off site manufacture as some sort of panacea for the industry’s ills. Economist Kate Barker, on the other hand, says it won’t save mu…
[MMC-IMG=162-A=Left] the walrus
The Walrus reveals his firm’s Worst Kept Secret while wondering how an 80 year old can be the saviour of London’s latest Olympic bid
Battleground
Last month Laing Homes won an important case against Buckinghamshire County Council’s decision to register 38 acres of land as a village green and therefore st…
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