Adding an extra cottage; making disabled children welcome; using alternative finance options to sell a flat; the best way to pay for a conservatory.

Strongest indication yet from estate agents that housing slump is over.

David Snell on recycling water.

A builder gives it to you straight. This week: external wall coatings and repointing.

Homes with a dramatic driveway.

A-Plant, one of the largest non operated equipment rental companies in the UK, has been awarded two four year framework agreements with the Environment Agency.

Building solutions company CEMEX has entered into a two year partnership with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to accelerate the development of biodiversity strategy.

Aircrete manufacturer H+H Celcon is currently supplying for the GBP 2.6 million extension to Sawston Village College in Cambridgeshire.

International Timber has seen growing popularity of Accoya, a durable, aesthetically pleasing and more sustainable alternative to tropical hardwood.

Gleeds, the International Management and Construction Consultancy, has become the only UK firm to have acquired a shareholding in a pioneering German framework known as 'Partnerschaften Deutschland'.

MediaCityUK is being developed by a partnership of the Central Salford Urban Regeneration Company, Peel Holdings and Salford City Council. This is a major development for the North of England, for the UK as a whole and will be of

Correct lighting is important in all areas of life, but if we were to quantify which activities require the highest quality of light, then lighting for education would be fairly near the top of that list.

In west Hertfordshire, a history of financial deficit going back to the early 1990s led to a reported deficit of £26.8m in 2005/6 with a total accumulated deficit at just over £41m. One of the main contributing factors to this

In many operations, within the industrial, construction and commercial sectors, the use of water is often an accepted process cost. There is scant attention paid to reducing such a significant service cost with fixing leaking taps often being the extent

The demand for chilled beams has more than doubled over the past three years and its market value now exceeds that of fan coil units.