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Housebuilders lobby for year’s delay to Part L tests
Home Builders Federation seeks time to develop simplified method for meeting air-tightness requirements.
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FeaturesJust the job
John Montague exchanged life at a billion-pound turnover contractor for a career in charitably funded ‘social enterprise’.
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Appointments
ContractorGeoffrey Osborne has appointed Rod Peck operations manager for its South Midlands homes division.HousebuildersAffordable housing provider Lovell has recruited Siân Byrne as business development manager for Wales.Warren O’Callaghan has been appointed part exchange manager at Fairclough Homes’ northern home counties division based at St Albans, Hertfordshire.Gary Belcher has joined Northampton-based ...
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NewsTougher sustainability regime on the way
A panel of 28 high-profile executives met for the first time last Thursday to thrash out a sustainable procurement plan,
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NewsPycroft sets out Mace’s five-year expansion plan
One hundred days into the job, Mace’s chief executive aims for £400m turnover by 2010 and targets USA
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CommentSome strings attached
As the plan to build sustainable communities on public land begins to take shape, we should make social inclusion a condition for funding and planning permission
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NewsRegeneration expert to advise Miliband
Communities and local government minister David Miliband has appointed a regeneration and local government expert as his first special adviser at the ODPM
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FeaturesDoing good by stealth
The new chief executive of the Prince’s Foundation is a quiet American. But Hank Dittmar’s lack of showiness is well suited to a charity that is aiming to slowly and subtly transform urban England.
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Jarvis appoints FM boss to oversee business sell-off
Support services group hires ex-ISG managing director to co-ordinate the sale of its accommodation service
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Mears boss starts work in buoy
Stuart Black officially took up the role of chief executive of social housing repair and maintenance business Mears this week.
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NewsRouse warns private firms to stop building ghettos
Commercial housebuilders threatened with loss of public funding unless they construct more mixed communities
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Fewer jobs in housing sector as slowdown starts to bite
The first repercussions of the slowdown in housebuilding emerged this week with a decline in recruitment over the past year.
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CommentWhere did Multiplex go wrong?
We’re used to drama at Wembley but last week’s events are right up there with white horses and Russian linesmen.
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CommentWorse than useless
The BPF’s consultancy agreement is a fine example of a one-sided contract that dumps extra work and unlimited risk on any consultant foolish enough to sign it