Features

Connect & control

Housebuilders and utility companies have not always had the best relationship, the downturn adding to the common problem of delays. But Tim Palmer looks at the important role utilities now have to play in the drive to cut carbon

Building sites

Websites are the most essential tool in a housebuilder’s marketing armoury. Andrew Leech finds that they save time and money and could move sales in the right direction

the innovators

In the face of a downturn housebuilders are being asked to raise standards and meet new regulations. Thank goodness, then, for the innovators –suppliers of systems and ideas to help hit those targets

Web consultancy

With the Action Plan consultation website now live and concerns over the potential skills gap continuing to be a major concern in the industry, NHBC’s Rob Lockey offers insight into the initiative and reveals how you can be part of the industry-wide consultation

Right to comply

On April 1 the new Consumer Code for Home Builders came into force. Rod MacEachrane, interim chairman of the consumer code management board, explains how housebuilders can ensure compliance with the new Code and what it means to them

High diving

Grainger is the UK’s largest quoted residential property owner in Britain and also has a lively and innovative development arm. Ben Roskrow talks to Grainger’s residential md Andrew Pratt about the firm’s housing activities, its residential model and how the firm developed London’s best selling scheme

Piling power

Good result

Steve Morgan is back in the industry and he has a lot to say – about the mistakes of the past, today’s planners, trendy design critics, the Tories and Wolves doing the double over Spurs. Ben Roskrow chats to the bullish Redrow boss who also happens to own Wolverhampton Wanderers FC

A view from the east

Four years ago ex Charles Church md and CDC2020 boss Nick Smith(right) took up the challenge of overseeing the building of a pioneering project in Oman. Here he gives a flavour of what it is like to work in the Middle East

Queensgate takes off

It is back to basics for Inland Homes with Queensgate, its mixed use scheme featuring simply-built family homes. Suzie Mayes reports on the development under construction next to Farnborough’s historic airfield