Keith Osborne

Chris Nelson and Ashley Reece of eggHomes

Career view: the partners of eggHomes

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A fairly new name to the UK housebuilding industry, eggHomes is well underway at its Viver Green development in Cumbria, on the doorstep of the Lake District. The homes on this site are high specification and have been designed and built with a strong link to sustainability and environmentally friendly materials and construction methods. Here we look at the two partners in the business and see how their differing career paths have come together and brought complementary skills and interests to their company. Chris Nelson, partner and director of sales and marketing Chris is one of the founding partners of eggHomes as well as co-owner of Equity Growth Partners. With over £300m of acquisition, the property investment company also offers property management […]

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George Baird, Bewley Homes

Housebuilding and me: George Baird, apprentice at Bewley Homes

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What attracts a young person to housebuilding? Every apprentice has their own reasons, and here, George Baird tells what brought him to Home Counties developer Bewley Homes and what he’s loved about the industry in his first two years working in it. Why did you choose housebuilding as a career? After leaving full time education at the age of 18, I knew it was time to start a long (and hopefully successful) career. I’ve always had an interest in construction in general but never knew what area of it I wanted to try out. I was aware that housebuilding was a sector of the industry that had been growing and expanding over the previous few years and I felt had the potential

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Sea Of Hands

September intake open for Berkeley Homes’ apprenticeship programme

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Berkeley Homes, one of the best-known developers in London and the South East of England, is urging those looking for an apprenticeship opportunity in the housebuilding industry to apply for a place on its REACH scheme. REACH has been enhanced this year following its launch in September 2016 by Berkeley Homes (Capital) plc to bring between 30 and 40 more apprentices aged 16 and over to the company this year for around two years of  “immersive” learning of key construction skills at some of its central London developments, in partnership with The Outward Bound Trust. The programme covers technical and practical knowledge, as well as interpersonal skills, and will demonstrate to the apprentices the myriad of routes through the industry that are

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Kathryn Reucroft and Rachel Colgan

We’ll meet again – the joining of two careers in property PR

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When sitting under a pile of newspaper cuttings, scissors and glue as young and inexperienced junior account executives over 10 years ago, property PR professionals Rachel Colgan and Kathryn Reucroft had no idea they were sitting next to their future business partner. Starting their careers in the busy property PR team at Trimedia Harrison Cowley in London and chiefly responsible for the cuttings books and general junior admin duties for the likes of Countryside, Bovis Homes and Dandara, they had never imagined that one day they would be running their own successful Property PR agency together. Certainly, for the ambitious and creative individuals, running a business was always a dream and after the sell-ins were complete, the cuttings folders were stuck together,

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Larkfleet Homes donates model to New College Stamford

Larkfleet donates scale model of home to local college

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Housebuilder Larkfleet Homes – winner of numerous awards including prestigious WhatHouse? Awards – has underlined its relationship with New College Stamford by donating a new model house to the establishment, following a similar donation to  Greater Peterborough UTC. The college offers a range of courses covering different construction industry skills, among them skilled trades such as brickwork, carpentry, electrical and plumbing. Courses take place in a new £3.5m, CITB-approved construction skills centre. The scale model is of a typical, timber-framed home designed to the latest standards, and can be assembled and disassembled by students following drawings provided with it. Larkfleet Homes joint managing director Helen Hick says of the company’s donation: “It was a great pleasure to hand over the model house to

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