Building homes

Building homes - 1995 - LOAN - Building Supplement 27 January 1995 (22) .

Special report on housebuilding including articles on a survey of housebuilders quality control tests by the Construction Quality Forum showing that 60% of defects do not come to light until the building is occupied, how Tower Hamlets plans to meet its £200m repair bill, how valid the use of life-cycle costing models are in valuing property transferred from public sector landlords to the private sector, a repair scheme to bring crumbling prefabricated houses to mortgagable standards and the case of Jock Carstairs who led a 4-year battle against Exeter CC for compensation for a house he had bought under right to buy but which was structurally unsound.


CONSTRUCTION QUALITY FORUM
COST MODELLING
DEFECTS
HOUSE BUILDING
HOUSING DEFECTS ACT 1984
HOUSING STOCK
LIFE-CYCLE COSTING
MAINTENANCE COSTS
NON-TRADITIONAL HOMES APPRAISAL SCHEME
PRC HOUSES
PREFABRICATED REINFORCED CONCRETE
QUALITY ASSURANCE
QUALITY CONTROL
REPAIRS
RIGHT TO BUY
TRANSFER
Valuation