Training is key for a quality supply chain
Mick Hine, operations director of TriConnex, looks at the challenge of recruiting and training the staff needed to tackle the potentially high risk utility sec…
Builders aim for FTSE return
The FTSE 100 is 30 years old. Since its launch, housebuilding and construction representation has dropped. Steve Menary wonders whether the Help to Buy recover…
New tools to control housing market
The Bank of England has identified a new set of tools to decouple control of the housing market from control of the economy, allowing interest rates to remain …
Thank goodness for Kirsty and Phil
Finally, a programme showing the benefits of new homes and not treating all developers as greedy, immoral monsters
Giving new homes a fair hearing
Ben Roskrow despairs of the anti-developer tone of much of the media interest in the housebuilding industry, but finds solace in Kirsty and Phil on Location, L…
A need for real partnerships
Phil Slater, Indesit Company channel manager, Portfolio team, argues that as the market picks up all suppliers to the housing industry must ensure that real re…
Stock responses
As the housing market continues its recovery, Steve Menary looks at City sentiment – will it buy, hold or sell?
Costs rising for the housebuilding sector
Richard Jones, group head of regeneration and growth, says that costs in the residential sector will be forced up next year and in 2015 as the pressure on a de…
To 2016 and beyond
As government measures to support housing demand are withdrawn and interest rates begin to rise, the postelection government will have to decide whether to ext…
More of the same in 2014 please
All three main political parties are being vocal about the need to build houses and are clambering over themselves to keep the industry on side
