All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1416
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Watt a bargain!
Does electricity at a cost of just 1.5p per kW/h sound to good to be true? Combined heat & power plants, like the one operating in Lerwick, can offer homeowners just that.
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Rebounding after a bomb
Services systems can take the thick end of the wedge if a building is bombed. But damage from a blast need not be fatal. Services that have felt the shudder of a bomb can be saved.
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Top 50 homebuilders
The country’s 50 biggest homebuilders in their last reported full trading years were jointly responsible for just under 100 000 new homes.
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Top 50 highlights
Together 50 built some 60% of 1998’s estimated 169 500 completions. What’s happening individually?
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Top 50 housing associations
Development programmes are down but larger associations are holding their own.
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Why does your child want a £100 pair of Nike trainers?
The price of the shoes might be 90% brand and 10% materials and labour. But that’s the point. It is the brand that has added value. If you could take great locations and add the value of your brand to sell at higher prices, wouldn’t that be good news?
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The shape of the future
A revolution in construction is afoot and social landlords are at the cutting edge
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Partnership blazes a trail for housing refugees
A resettlement plan for Kosovar refugees being worked out in Yorkshire could be a blueprint for other areas
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Frustration follows delay to benefit system change
Changes to reduce the hardship caused by the housing benefit system have been put on ice to the dismay of campaigners
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Bringing communities back to life
Regeneration is not just about bricks and mortar. For residents, a sense of belonging, confidence and integration are crucial, say our contributors
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Associations are housing fewer homeless people
Housing associations are housing significantly fewer homeless people and nominations from councils in an effort to create more balanced communities, official figures reveal
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Dean calls for 10,000 tenant board members
The number of tenants on housing association boards should more than treble, the Housing Corporation told a committee of MPs this week
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Playing the game
Is PFI the trump card for council housing? Housing Today takes a look at the pathfinder bids bids
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Councils get new vision of the future
Councils have been given five new options for reorganising housing departments as part of a long game to convince the government that councils can be trusted with the freedom to borrow
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Payments to come under scrutiny
The voluntary nature of the housing association movement could come under question in a new Housing Corporation study
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Tenants beg and borrow to meet benefit shortfall
Research casts doubt on ministers' ideas
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Pressure mounts to stop the use of Bed and Breakfast for mentally ill
The government has come under increased pressure to stop housing homeless people with mental health problems in bed and breakfasts following an inquiry into the fatal stabbing of a policewoman
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Management vehicle '99
Councils are being asked to re-evaluate the relationship between their strategic housing functions and their role as landlords. Our contributors look at the latest models
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Death of capital funding predicted within 10 years
Housing associations are predicting the death of capital funding within ten years after new figures show new social housing slashed by a third by 2002