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FeaturesWhitbybird's 21st birthday fly-by
Whitbybird's birthday at the Science Museum attracted plenty of high-flyers including Terry Farrell.
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FeaturesHow to find the X-factor
John Cowell is a construction marketing consultant and brother of pop mogul Simon Cowell, which makes him well qualified to write a series of articles on self-promotion in the building industry.
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FeaturesMove over Fangio
Davis Langdon's clients and staff scrape their way around a muddy Castle Combe to raise money for charity.
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FeaturesSouth African township builds on Irish goodwill
Irish builders volunteer to build 50 houses in Cape Town.
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Shining examples
More, better, faster, cheaper: what the government is demanding from the housebuilding industry, especially homes with a pricetag of 拢60,000, looks beyond the realms of the possible. Yet, just look at the winners of this year's 精东影视 Homes Quality Awards, organised by 精东影视 in association with the Housing Forum. In ...
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FeaturesBest company-wide sustainability award
Housebuilders are broadening their definition of sustainability. For its all-round commitment, Countryside Properties was a clear winner in this category, sponsored by Energy Saving Trust
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FeaturesBest approach to partnering and supply chain management
A large field of finalists lined up for this award, sponsored by Construction Industry Solutions. Haslam and Keegans were both frontrunners but Fusion 21, Merseyside鈥檚 best known partnership since Dalgleish and Rush, took the award
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FeaturesBest training/people development award
The panel had a long line-up of contenders again for this category, sponsored by Technical Resourcing 鈥� and judges were particularly pleased to see these finalists making the link between training and profitability. In the end, London & Quadrant emerged victorious
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FeaturesBest health and safety initiative
Our finalists in this category, which is sponsored by the Traditional Housing Bureau, demonstrated how they were going beyond the basics and innovating to improve safety standards. It was Bellwinch鈥檚 proactive approach that won it the overall prize
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FeaturesThe innovation award for building technology
The judges wanted to see innovative products and they were excited by the market potential of the winning entry from Powergen in this category, sponsored by the Housing Forum
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FeaturesBest it innovation
The judges were impressed at how IT-savvy the industry is becoming. But it was initiatives that used technology for the benefit of the customer, led by Miller Homes, that impressed the judges most in this category, sponsored by SmartNewHomes.com
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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鈥� 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 精东影视 Systems
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FeaturesBest public鈥損rivate 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鈥檚 Pimlico Village project as overall winner in this category, sponsored by National Property Solutions