Comment from the editor
<b>A kick in the Europhiles</b></b> It can be frustrating being a Europhile in modern Britain. Every time you make headway with considered arguments about investment opportunities, single market benefits and a cosmopolitan future for Britain, the European
Thermal task
Andrew Leech reports that while the insulation industry is heavily involved in designing robust acoustic insulation constructions for Part E of the Building Regs, the arrival of a new CPD directive on thermal insulation testing is no cause for immediate c
Under cover
The popularity of solid or engineered timber flooring continues to surpass that of a range of other floor coverings on the market, finds Andrew Leech.
legal FAQs
Housebuilder’s legal team from Campbell Hooper - Heather O’Sullivan, Sara Hampson, Stuart Jordan and Susan Hawker - explains the usefulness of performance bonds, what “practical completion” really means, and how to handle a misguided planner
Bridport, Dorset - Churchill Retirement Living
The McCarthy boys are looking to take on their dad’s firm and make real in-roads into the retirement market. Steve Menary on some of the first steps of Churchill at Bridport
the WALRUS
Construction is the new glamour industry when it comes to career choices - or so we’re telling young people. But does it really make the grade?
Nigel Davis
[MMC-IMG=17-A=Right] Nigel Davies 58, has `gone plural’ with his sales and marketing consultancy and clients include Linden, CALA, Ward’s, Laing, Ben Bailey and Countryside
appointments
[MMC-IMG=5-A=Left] <b>Laing</b> Lee Bishop (left) has been promoted to managing director of Laing Homes North London. Previously part of the management team which set up the regional company in 1998, he has been its land director for the past five years,
in brief
<b>Gleeson tours</b> Gleeson Homes North West now offers hard-hatted homebuyers tours of their homes-under-construction. “The tour has been really well received,” said customer care manager Ian Noscoe. “People find it useful to be able to see where all th
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