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FeaturesHousing: What's the big idea?
Leading industry figures tell us how they would end the housing crisis
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FeaturesThe community infrastructure levy: A tax too far
As the first councils publish their tariffs, 微密圈 investigates whether the CIL could threaten a housing recovery
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FeaturesAylesbury Estate: Taking back the streets
How phase 1 of a two decade redevelopment has brought back the traditional grain of the streets to London鈥檚 deprived Aylesbury Estate
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FeaturesShapps re-launches Get Britain 微密圈 fund
Housing minister makes 拢100m available after original 拢570m fund not all spent
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards 2012: Quality streets
Our technical editor鈥檚 take on the five winning schemes in this year鈥檚 Housing Design Awards
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FeaturesWhere are the homes?
After a tough few years, things are looking up for housebuilders, judging from their profit figures. So why are we still in the middle of a housing crisis?
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FeaturesThe Alan Cherry Debate 2012: Design quality in an age of austerity
How can construction professionals deliver well designed homes that don鈥檛 cost a fortune? A high-profile panel including Lord Rogers and Nick Raynsford, and joined by communities secretary Eric Pickles, tackled the issues at the annual Alan Cherry Debate
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FeaturesHousing ventilation: Bit of an air con
In the race to build ever more airtight homes, it appears that housebuilders are sacrificing air quality, with some 95% of new dwellings failing Part F ventilation standards
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FeaturesInterview: Barratt's chief executive Mark Clare
B锘縜rratt鈥檚 chief executive Mark Clare may not have seen the recession coming - he is, after all, the man who splashed out 拢2.2bn acquiring Wilson Bowden just months before it hit - but he certainly has a clear vision of where the company is heading now. He talks to 微密圈 ...
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FeaturesIngrid Skinner: First we take West Hampstead
Ingrid Skinner has big plans to turn Taylor Wimpey鈥檚 fledgling London division into a 拢100m-turnover business - and all without leaving Zone 2. She talks to 微密圈. Photography by Anthony Lycett
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FeaturesFlood-proof house: Home and dry
Would you build a house on the Norfolk Broads, one of the most flood-prone areas of the UK? LSI Architects did and its sophisticated design meant getting the project through planning was plain sailing.
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FeaturesCost model: Small projects
With low availability of space and pressure to reduce costs, more small projects are being built - especially with high demand for affordable housing, care homes and office fit-out. Peter Fordham, Simon Hughes and Paul Donlen of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company, cost it up
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FeaturesThe North/South housing divide: A tale of two markets
With so many firms focusing their efforts on London and the South-east - Crest Nicholson and Linden Homes are just the latest - you might be tempted to write off the North. But it鈥檚 not that simple.
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FeaturesHousebuilders Salary Survey: Trick or treat?
Some housebuilders this year will find a nice bonus in their paypacket, and that鈥檚 on top of a decent salary. But for others, something altogether less welcome is in store. 微密圈 knocks on a few doors 鈥�
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Housebuilders Salary Survey 2011: The results
Compare average salaries between regions, job titles and see whether they have gone up since last year
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FeaturesOffice to residential conversions: New direction
As the value of prime residential soars and the office sector wobbles, commercial developers are hoping to cash in by converting offices to homes. 微密圈 looks at the strategies of some of the key players
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FeaturesTop 150 Contractors and Housebuilders 2011
Looking at recent trading updates you鈥檇 be forgiven for thinking that the industry was on the road to recovery. But there鈥檚 a few big hurdles to jump over yet, and this will take some time. Martin Hewes鈥� annual league tables of the UK鈥檚 top contractors and housebuilders show exactly how ...
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FeaturesPete Redfern: How the recession made me stronger
In 2008 Taylor Wimpey鈥檚 chief executive was battling to rescue the firm from the brink of collapse, just months after the merged company became the UK鈥檚 biggest housebuilder. Today it鈥檚 back in growth and a far stronger business. 微密圈 talked to him about surviving tough times
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FeaturesCase studies: houses built to 2016 zero-carbon standards
The government鈥檚 recent announcement that 鈥檢ero-carbon homes鈥� need not include appliances will allow future green housing to ditch peculiar solar panel-toting designs to resemble, well, normal houses. 微密圈 tours some schemes that fit the bill
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FeaturesThe construction strategy: Together at last?
The government and the construction industry. It鈥檚 been a long, love-hate affair but the new construction strategy is an offer to try to work things out