Increasingly, this has involved considering alternative, but related, uses of the core business to improve margins, but even more importantly, to create greater certainty around development value and cashflow.
Efficiencies are maximised and the balance between in house and external cost base is optimised. Organisational design has to be lean and efficient but not decimated to prevent scalability in the future.
The governments policy to have all new homes ‘zero carbon’ by 2016 has been well publicised. With the introduction of the Code for Sustainable Homes and the Building a Greener Future
The writing was on the wall with regard to a cultural shift in the way we view our homes, to the way people did 50 or 60 years ago. The post war generation viewed their homes as somewhere to live, probably for life,
Mark Farmer Partner, Head of Private Residential & Commercial Development t +44 (0)20 7812 2000
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