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Pooling resources

Dec. 1, 2004

[MMC-IMG=1318-A=Left] The government’s push for higher density housing is enabling the greenbelt to be preserved, and even added to. Those pining for five-bedr…

General

Dec. 1, 2004

Go with the flow

Dec. 1, 2004

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

Dec. 1, 2004

[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

Dec. 1, 2004

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

Dec. 1, 2004

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

Dec. 1, 2004

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

Dec. 1, 2004

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

Dec. 1, 2004

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