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Property Development: How Do I Complete my Residential Development?
You have a procurement strategy, but what happens next? How do you complete your residential development? The Building Contract Once…
selecting a tender strategy For Property development?
It is an Architect’s professional responsibility to advise their Client on procurement and which tender strategy is best suited to…
Project Update : New Build Chapel on the West Coast
Since the last update, the chancel arch has now been completed and erected – and after a little tweaking it…
Property Development – is this the right building for me?
Investing in property can be highly rewarding, not only in terms of profit, but the restoration and refurbishment of existing…
PROJECT UPDATE: NEW BUILD CHAPEL ON SCOTLAND’S WEST COAST
Meanwhile, on site work is progressing well. A fully roofed scaffold over the site allowed work to continue uninterrupted through the winter – as well as providing support for the winch which is used to lift the stones – some weighing up to 1 ½ tonnes into place.
A Guide To Building Consent Processes in Scotland
“Planning Permission” is an expression that means different things to different people. For those who are new to the processes of getting a building built or altered it may mean “all the permissions I need to start work”. But there can be two, and in some cases more than two, consent processes that need to be gone through before work can start.
The Commercial Potential of Historic Buildings
Listed buildings may present challenges for owners but there is still scope for improving their commercial potential The commercial potential…
Exposed Filament Light Bulbs And The birth of An Interior Design Trend
Individuality and Nostalgia Step back in time to 2010 an idea, a design movement was born. Exposed raw materials along…
Where Roofs Fail
It's obvious really: roofs fail at junctions and intersections.
Project Update: New Build Chapel On Scotland’s West Coast
In May we brought you a project preview of this exciting new build chapel on the West Coast of Scotland, read this here, and now as the Scottish summer reaches its peak and draws to a close here is a little update on how it is going.
Flooding: We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
I've been banging on about climate change for years. I've even given a couple of talks to RICS conferences drawing attention to the connection between climate change and flooding, particularly as it affects surveyors and the land and buildings we advise on. Now flooding, flood damage and leaky buildings are subjects that are right up at the top of the agenda.
Another Look at Housing Maintenance Policy
Maintenance is the achilles heel of all housing policy. It is all too easy for politicians to make a short term gain at the expense of the maintenance budget. In the 1950s, 60s and 70s it was common for rent controls in both public and private sector housing to be funded, in effect, from the maintenance budget.
