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  • Launch of competition for Renewable Heat Premium Payment

    Published: 21 May 2012 | Author: Val Taylor

    As part of the RHPP Phase 2, the Department of Energy and Climate Change are launching the Social Landlords Competition in London on 28 May 2012.  Following the ministerial launch, DECC officials are arranging a series of seminars across Great Britain to help potential bidders through the application process.  More...

  • Reading Regulations the Riot Act

    Published: 15 May 2012 | Author: Karl Williams

    Over-regulation and vested interests could be banished to the past if plans for a review panel of experts and consumer labelling get the go-ahead, says Ben Derbyshire. To read the full article that appeared in Building Magazine on 11th May 2012, please click on the PDF attachment below. More...

  • Existing housing costs and Building Information Management - opportunity to learn more at the Skills Summit

    Published: 10 May 2012 | Author: Karl Williams

    Skills Summit No. 8 - “How Building Information Modelling (BIM) can help" - 16th May 2012 At The Housing Forum’s National Conference on 26th April,  keynote speaker and Government’s Chief Construction Adviser Paul Morrell called for the use of BIM in housing asset management  “BIM is for housing at any scale ... We are not managing our assets well, so there is real money to quarry for" (Inside  Housing  4th May pg 10.) More...

  • The Housing Forum Triple

    Published: 09 May 2012 | Author: Karl Williams

    Three articles covering The Housing Forum’s National Conference are featured in Inside Housing.  Please click on the links below to read each article. "Government defends new heat incentive"  p6 "HCA to trial modelling approach"  p10 More...

  • Press Release: "Wider vision on housing finance essential to provide sufficient new homes" say MPs

    Published: 09 May 2012 | Author: Karl Williams

    The Government must employ a basket of measures, covering all tenures of housing, if sufficient finance is ever to be available to tackle the country’s housing crisis, says the Communities and Local Government Committee in a report examining the financing of new housing supply. More...

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