Building matters
31 August 2012
The drive for new homes brings added pressures to an already stretched construction sector, but positive challenges for recruiters. Colin Cottell reports
The government is committed to building 3m new homes in England by 2020. From 2016, it plans to build 240,000 new dwellings a year, an increase of 60,000 on the 180,000 currently built each year.Based on economist Kate Barker's 2004 calculation that it takes 1.5 people to...