The Jablite Blog
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The UK Construction industry – Back to the Future?
21 May 2013Posted By:
GuestBlogger
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) published the latest stats about housing starts and the Right to Buy scheme last week – both of which gave an insight into how well the construction industry is performing.
Jablite, Managing Director, Richard Lee has a look....
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Campaign to use carbon revenue to insulate UK homes continues…
01 May 2013Posted By:
Jabbwocky
Since its inception, the Energy Bill Revolution (EBR) campaign has won widespread support; it has gained over 140 alliance members, making the EBR the biggest and broadest fuel poverty coalition in the world.
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Operational Excellence: What’s the theory?
25 April 2013Posted By:
GuestBlogger
Over the last year we’ve been working on a programme we’ve called operation excellence – aimed at improving all areas of our business through the reduction of non-value added activity…
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Is the Chancellor really taking a risk?
28 March 2013Posted By:
Jabbwocky
Richard Lee, tackles the articles (Economist/Robert Peston, BBC) about the risk inherent in supporting the building of new homes.
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Converting Offices to Homes - does it make sense?
01 March 2013With the number of new homes built in 2012 falling just short of 100,000 - last stats from NHBC indicate 98,500 - and a Government target of 250,000 new homes per year required to overcome the increasing housing shortfall, something needed to be done....
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Green Deal might just work!
18 February 2013Posted By:
Polytheme blog
Not an exciting headline compared to ‘Conservatory tax.' But the Green Deal is starting to build some interest.
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Roofers have plenty up top
27 November 2012Posted By:
Polytheme blog
I was invited to an LRWA last week – that’s the Liquid Roofing and Waterproofing Association. To a layman these are liquids that are applied to the roof deck – rather than a ‘traditional’ membrane. This used to be mainly bitumen based but there is an increasing choice of polymer based coatings.
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Why all the doubt and negativity about the Green Deal?
12 November 2012Posted By:
Jabbwocky
The construction sector is dominated by regulation and legislation - and quite rightly so - the devil, one might say, is in the detail.
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Separating fact from fiction: We need more houses!
08 November 2012Posted By:
DamienPooley
I was watching TV the other day and a housing market pundit said that one of the reasons house prices haven’t fallen substantially was because of a big rise in the amount of households being created (due to births, divorces and a growing acceptability of people living on their own), along with falling house building.
It’s not the first time I’ve heard this argument, but it got me thinking – are we building enough homes to cater for population increases?
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Rt Hon David Davis MP at Jablite in Howden
23 October 2012Posted By:
Jabbwocky
On 19 October, the Rt Hon David Davis MP came to visit Jablite in Howden, here are the photos from his visit.
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Recent Entries
- The UK Construction industry – Back to the Future?
- Campaign to use carbon revenue to insulate UK homes continues…
- Operational Excellence: What’s the theory?
- Is the Chancellor really taking a risk?
- Converting Offices to Homes - does it make sense?
- Green Deal might just work!
- Roofers have plenty up top
- Why all the doubt and negativity about the Green Deal?