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FeaturesCompany-wide design innovation award
When it comes to company-wide design innovation, many housebuilders are expert at the rhetoric, but our judges felt that few deliver high-quality schemes time after time. Countryside Properties is among that elite and carried off the prize in this Finnforest UK-sponsored category
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FeaturesBest new homes agent
Three firms battled it out for this award, sponsored by Property Week, but FPDSavills won the contest for its heavyweight research capability
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FeaturesBest planning and land regeneration strategy
The transformers of waterside sites in the South were pitted against those delivering social housing improvement in the North in this English Partnerships-sponsored category. The South triumphed, with Berkeley Homes picking up the prize
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FeaturesMost creative marketing award
Miller took the private housebuilders’ prize and Family HA the affordable housing award in this category, sponsored by Barbour Index
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FeaturesUrban housing development of the year
It was the response to the site that won Berkeley Homes this category, sponsored by Fusion Building Systems
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FeaturesBest public–private partnership
This was another award that our judges found difficult, as they were looking for clear benefits from the partnership. After much debate, the judges chose Network Housing Group’s Pimlico Village project as overall winner in this category, sponsored by National Property Solutions
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FeaturesOutstanding housebuilder of the year
This new category, sponsored by Building, recognises the top performers building up to 500 units a year. The inaugural award goes to the cream of the South-west, Midas Homes
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The sector today
Our Future Homes conference, ahead of the Building Homes Quality Awards, tackled the issues affecting the industry now and examined the findings of the Private Housebuilding Annual 2004. Here are some key extracts from that report by Fred Wellings
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FeaturesPrivate housebuilder of the year
The battle of the big names was a close-fought contest, but Berkeley Homes added to its other 2004 successes by taking this category, sponsored by Zurich Financial Services
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FeaturesAffordable Housing Provider of the Year
The judges thought this was an exceptionally strong set of finalists, setting high standards for the entire industry in areas such as customer care. Circle 33 won the award in this category, sponsored by Bank of Scotland
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FeaturesChannel 4 4homes award
This special award, sponsored by Wolseley Centres, is voted for by browsers of the Channel 4 4Homes website. Over the summer, they were invited to vote for their favourite new home from this shortlist of 10. The winning housebuilder is announced in the current issue of Building
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Comment
Above financial persuasion
Tony Bingham (24 September, page 70) says that adjudicators should not be given the power to decide on their own jurisdiction as they have a financial interest in the outcome.Come off it, Tony! Arbitrators have the power to decide on their own jurisdiction, and the courts encourage parties to refer ...
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Way off
Although I’m a strong advocate of off-site manufacture (OSM), I have to take issue with your Offsite supplement (1 October). OSM will only succeed if it can match the design quality and cost effectiveness of traditional building. Few of the featured projects showed any of John Prescott’s ‘wow’ factor, and ...
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One-eyed jock
Lord Fraser’s report on Holyrood appears to me to be one-eyed, ignoring as it does the plight of the trade contractors involved. The building may well have cost its owners – the taxpayers – £431m but I surmise the cost to its builders, trade contractors and the professional team is ...
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On different tracks
I don’t claim to be an expert in construction project management, or indeed public transport, but to attempt to compare the state of the railways with construction, as Paul Morrell does (3 September, page 40), is surely wrong. Railways provide a service to the clients – the passengers – who ...
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Gone with the wind
The objections to on-shore wind farm schemes (24 September, page 70) are classic nimbyism. Would the objectors prefer a nuclear power station on the green fields? At least with wind farms, when they are removed you wouldn’t know they had even been there.
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FeaturesSpecialists: Piling
Our series on specialist markets continues, this time with analysis of the piling sector’s lead times and costs from Gary Bibby of Gardiner & Theobald. Plus, Robin Wood of Cementation Foundations Skanska talks about the latest trends in the piling market