Fostering understanding among planners and builders
There is a gap in understanding between planners and developers which is slowing development down and delaying decisions. Mark Smulian reports on ideas to help…
Challenging common convention
Suzie Mayes talks to John Anderson, the charismatic executive director of Kier Living, about partnering, his 2020 Vision plan and how housebuilders should be "…
Beyond confirmation bias
Stephen Byfield, md of communications consultancy PPS Group, looks at the phenomenon of "confirmation bias" in which we favour facts that support our beliefs a…
The Top 25: Britain's Top 25 Housebuilders
Notes to the Britain's Top 25 Housebuilders table (Figures in brackets are previous year)
The Top 25: From gloom to boom but resilience required ahead
Brian Green, editor of the Housing Market Intelligence report which is published this month, looks at some of the findings of the detailed analysis of the hous…
The industry unites
In October UK Construction Week returns to the Birmingham NEC, with its nine shows providing something for everyone within the construction industry. Suzie May…
The right pitch
Five years ago NHBC launched an industry-wide campaign to help raise standards of pitched roofs on new homes across the UK in a bid to reduce claims and re-occ…
Councils reveal affordability v brownfield clash
Local authorities have been set a 2017 deadline to deliver their Local Plans so the scramble to find sites to accommodate unprecedented housing growth is on. B…
