Construction Enquirer

JULY 10, 2023

Forterra has started a round of job cuts as a predicted recovery in the housing market fails to materialise. The brick giant mothballed its Howley Park factory earlier this year in a £10m cost-cutting drive as the residential market slumped. last time.

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Construction Enquirer

MAY 15, 2023

Forterra is cutting production as housing work stutters including the mothballing of its Howley Park brick factory. ” The update revealed a 24% drop in revenue for the four-month period ending 30 April 2023 to £109m from £143m last time as demand slumped in the housing sector. hike last October. ”

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Pro Builder

JUNE 22, 2023

Our latest list of Housing Giants , as ranked by home building revenue in 2022, can attest to that. Sure, these builders collectively closed more houses and collected more money last year than the year before (see charts, below), but it certainly wasn’t easy. RELATED 2023 Housing Giants List: Ranking the Biggest U.S.

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Construction Enquirer

MAY 29, 2023

Private equity giant Apollo has struck a deal to acquire United Living Group. Joanna Reiss, Partner and Co-Head of Impact at Apollo said: “United Living is a proven provider with an exceptional reputation for quality and reliability that has a profound impact on affordable housing residents and their broader communities. “As

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Construction Enquirer

JUNE 9, 2023

Housing giant Barratt is set to demolish 36 new homes on an estate in Cambridge after finding faults in the foundations. Local paper the Cambridge Independent first revealed the problems on the Darwin Green site where Barratt David Wilson Homes Cambridgeshire is building a new community of nearly 1,600 homes.

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Construction Enquirer

JULY 27, 2023

House builder Persimmon’s finance chief is leaving the firm after just over a year in the post. Jason Windsor, chief financial officer, will formally leave on 1 September to become chief financial officer at investment giant abrdn plc.

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Pro Builder

AUGUST 31, 2020

an investment firm giant, plans to steer investors toward single-family rental homes. The company will lead a group of investors in a $300 million minority investment in landlord giant Tricon Residential Inc, which operates more than 30,000 single-family rentals, according to National Mortgage News. cbroderick. Mon, 08/31/2020 - 09:33.

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Construction Enquirer

JULY 26, 2023

Insurance giant L&G is being forced to dismantle homes built during its short loss-making foray into manufacturing modular housing. The Enquirer understands that problems with foundations have been uncovered at one of its largest modular homes developments in Bristol.

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Pro Builder

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Recession fears are mounting in the housing market and beyond as the stock market continues to fall and the Federal Reserve puts increased pressure on mortgage interest rates to cool buyer demand. Buyers simply can’t afford the giant price tags plus the highest mortgage rates in 15 years. It’s going to be brutal,” says [Mark] Zandi. “No

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Pro Builder

JULY 23, 2020

Wall Street Giant Invests $300 Million in Single-Family Rentals. Leading global asset manager Brookfield Asset Management wants in on the booming housing market. They’re not the only Wall Street giant joining in, JPMorgan Chase & Co. had previously doubled investments through developing several thousand rental houses in May.

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Pro Builder

AUGUST 8, 2022

Home builders ramped up new-home construction in order to satisfy seemingly insatiable demand from buyers throughout a pandemic-driven housing boom over the last several years, but as the market cools, the number of unsold homes is climbing. Even homebuilding giants like D.R.

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Pro Builder

JUNE 14, 2021

2021 Housing Giants Report: An Unforgettable Forgettable Year. New and old challenges confronted the housing industry in 2020, and it may never be the same. housing industry? It’s kind of hard to remember (or maybe simply not worth the brain space) just how strongly 2020 started for new housing.

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Natural Building

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

If you go to www.messynessychic.com you will find a delightful array of archived photos of various kinds of shelter carved out of tree trunks, mostly from the giant sequoia found on the west coast of the U.S. The post Houses in Trees appeared first on Natural Building Blog.

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BD+C

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Fully equipped with giant LEGO bricks on the roof and integrated into the facade, LEGO Group recently opened the first phase of its new campus, which, when completed, will span 581,250 sf and house 2,000 employees.

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Construction Enquirer

APRIL 19, 2023

The housing giant – which hands out £1bn in contracts annually – cited a series of pioneering initiatives with construction companies during the trial which saw the social value weighting increased from the previous 2-7%.

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Pro Builder

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Landlord Giants Are Scooping Up Single-Family Homes. Single-family landlord giants have gained millions of dollars to purchase more rental homes during the pandemic. More than one in every 10 homes sold in the US is purchased by an investor, and these giants have only seen exponential growth since March. cbroderick.

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Pro Builder

JUNE 3, 2020

2020 Housing Giants [Builder Rankings]. Each annual Housing Giants list is a snapshot in time of builders’ perceived opportunities and challenges. Pro Builder has been publishing its Housing Giants list for more than 50 years now and, in doing so, has chronicled housing’s ups and downs.

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BD+C

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Springing from the site of the former City Hall building in Billund, Denmark, a new LEGO experience hub looks like it was built out of giant, colorful LEGO blocks. Bjarke Ingels Group and COWI designed the 12,000-sm LEGO House.

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Construction Enquirer

AUGUST 9, 2023

” The house building giant highlighted cost control measures in its latest results as sales continued to slump. Persimmon is looking to retender subcontractor packages more regularly as it looks to “share the cost pressures in this new challenging environment.”

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Construction Equipment

APRIL 17, 2018

Since 1925, Chicago's Tribune Tower's neo-Gothic design has influenced architecture in the city while housing media giants including the Chicago Tribune Newspaper and WGN radio.

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Pro Builder

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Close to 100,000 built-to-rent homes will have started construction this year, according to estimates from Brad Hunter, founder of the Hunter Housing Economics consulting firm. have made building rental houses a major component of their business. Giant investment firms like KKR & Co. Giant investment firms like KKR & Co.

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Pro Builder

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Taylor Morrison’s CEO told CNBC that the housing market’s strength has broadened, a shift from several months ago when the builder saw the most interest from Millennial buyers. The home building giant reported a 6% year-over-year increase and revenue of $1.6 Home Demand Has Broadened and Strengthened, Says Taylor Morrison CEO.

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BD+C

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The historic old Bell Labs building in Holmdel, New Jersey, is being converted into a “metroburb,” a giant, indoor “Main Street” that will house stores, a food hall, and technology company offices.

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Natural Building

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

They used the Dendrocalamus asper giant and Gigantochloa apus bamboo species to build the foundations of the building, each treated on site and made bug resistant. The high-pitched roofs were inspired by the traditional houses of Ngada in the Turetogo valley, which allows for a free flow of rainwater.

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Pro Builder

JULY 27, 2022

A forever home is an emotional investment, but these tips from Housing Design Matters can help designers harness the power of buyers' emotions for smooth sales from start to finish. Buying a Home Can Be an Emotional Decision, but These Tips Can Help With the Selection Process. Wed, 07/27/2022 - 10:24. Home Design. Design Best Practices.

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Pro Builder

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Unlike dropping city center rents, suburban single-family home rentals are raising rents to make the most out of the suburban housing demand. While millions of Americans struggle to pay rent, the two landlord giants receive timely payments and occupants who opt for higher rent than moving elsewhere.

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Pro Builder

AUGUST 9, 2021

Off-site construction methods are nothing new, but new advancements and upcoming housing projects hint at a tech-forward future. In this house, Alquist printed only the exterior walls, but the company says it will also build interior walls in future houses. cbroderick. Mon, 08/09/2021 - 09:44. The other 1% are steel.)

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Pro Builder

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In Remembrance of Bill Pulte, a Housing Giant aalbert Tue, 02/14/2023 - 12:18 A gentleman. The house sold for $10,000 and he never looked back. Before long, it was also building townhouses, multifamily projects, and student housing. The name, thank goodness, didn’t stick, but the housing model did. A family man.

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Construction Marketing

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Think of it like a giant battery that stores plenty of electricity, giving you all the power you need. Some of these power stations have enough capacity to keep an entire house charged during a blackout, meaning more than enough power for your job. Getting electricity for your construction site isn’t always easy.

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ENR Construction

JULY 5, 2017

Recently, in the living room of his nearly complete dream house on Bainbridge Island near Seattle, Jason F. McLennan watched as Kevin Wildes, a vice president of the floor-covering giant Mohawk Group, swiftly pieced together a modular area rug.

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Pro Builder

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

To prepare for the big day, Housing Design Matters suggests a holiday checklist for each home space so that homeowners can offer ample room for incoming friends and family. Can the giant turkey fit? PREPARING FOR THE BIG DAY: Is one refrigerator enough? Is the seldom-used second oven ready for showtime? Keep the dishwasher closed!

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Pro Builder

JUNE 29, 2021

Design firm Housing Design Matters says a three-seater island was large enough before, but is it today? What good is it to have a giant island if you can’t reach the middle of it? Kitchen islands continue to take up more jobs as their popularity grows, from a casual spot to eat and prep food to an all-encompassing work station today.

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BD+C

MARCH 29, 2024

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Pro Builder

JUNE 3, 2020

2020 Housing Giants Report: The Magnificent Middle. In the shadow of the top 20 Housing Giants and their impressive numbers, midsize production builders are vital to the industry’s growth and resilience. 500 baseball team, but I have a soft spot for builders in the middle of our Housing Giants rankings.

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Natural Building

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The house is largely a timber construction and has an onsite well with filtration system for water, and a reed-bed downhill from the house and waste tank discretely deals with treatment of black and grey water. Trees include a giant turkey oak, mature beech, sycamore, cedars, pines and arbutus.

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Natural Building

OCTOBER 16, 2022

The giant bamboos are the fastest-growing woody plant on the planet. By year three, you’ve got incredible building material, and that’s when it is harvested for houses. There’s a connection to nature in terms of just knowing that the house itself is helping solve the climate crisis.

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Natural Building

AUGUST 20, 2020

The village comprises seven ‘Warka houses’ inspired by the region’s vernacular dwellings; two ‘Warka towers’ designed to collect and harvest potable water from the air; ‘Warka santiation’ composting toilets that operate without flushing water; a ‘Warka pavilion’; and a modular edible ‘Warka garden’ that provides food for residents.

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