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From Peter Wilson, Setcrete Brand Manager Specifying beautiful floorcoverings for a new property can transform the appearance of a room dramatically. Today there are so many options from traditional carpet to wood, ceramic and porcelain floor tiles and, increasingly, luxury... View Article

By Ritchie Clapson CEng MIStructE, propertyCEO Building a hundred units is not ten times the work of building ten, but it can produce ten times the profits, if not more. But with greater scale comes greater complexity and risk. If... View Article

A new mixed tenure housing development is to be built on a 14.85ha brownfield site off Donnington Wood Way. The new development of 329 new homes is being bought forward by a partnership comprising of Telford & Wrekin Council, Nuplace... View Article

Bellway Homes recently launched The Printworks, a collection of 96 new homes, in central Reading. This development, which comprises both houses and apartments is centrally located on Cardiff Road, conveniently close to Reading mainline station. The scheme is set on... View Article

Rula Homes, the newly established housing division of Rula Developments, has secured planning consent from Wakefield Council to deliver 77 affordable new homes on a 5.76-acre site at City Fields, Wakefield East, located alongside the River Calder and the Aire... View Article

The transformation of Bradford’s Conditioning House – from a dilapidated mill into the city’s premier postcode – is complete. Leeds-based developer, Priestley Homes, has converted the Grade-II listed building into 153 modern apartments. The group’s main contractor, Priestley Construction, brought... View Article

Construction data for May showed that new orders across the industry increased at the fastest pace since the PMI (Purchasing Managers’ Index) first began collecting data in 1997, with the majority of firms surveyed predicting a continued rise in business... View Article