Author Archives: Professor Benfield

  • I hate my robot house

    Posted on August 21, 2013 by Professor Benfield

    By Bill Bonner
    Baltimore, Maryland
    I Hate My Robot House

    Bill Bonner returns to his farmhouse in rural Maryland, only a couple miles from where he was born. His house has just been remodelled. It is so completely improved that it is almost unbearable.
    Turn it off, Howard!…
    “Howard, I couldn’t figure out how to turn it off [...]


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  • Solid performance aids Miller's growth prospects

    Posted on March 14, 2013 by Professor Benfield

    Miller Group’s has seen its profit before interest rise 40% to £29.2 million during the year to December 2012, partly driven by its housebuilding business, the company said today (March 14).
    The private company posted a pre-tax profit of £6.6 million after 2011’s £30.4 million loss. Its total housing sales climbed 5% to 1,831 units against [...]


    This post was posted in News and was tagged with Housing, House Building Results, New Homes

  • Blind Man’s ‘Bluff’ - An alternative vision for Britain’s Imperilled Future (Part 3)

    Posted on February 14, 2013 by Professor Benfield

    Along with the rest of the world, over the next 40 years the UK faces rapid population growth, pressure on land, water, energy and other resources, and an administrative legacy that even some Ministers of the Crown see as ‘not fit for purpose’.
    Against this background arguments surrounding the HS2 routes are diversionary and [...]


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  • Blind Man’s ‘Bluff’ - An alternative vision for Britain’s Imperilled Future (Part 2)

    Posted on February 11, 2013 by Professor Benfield

    Along with the rest of the world, over the next 40 years the UK faces rapid population growth, pressure on land, water, energy and other resources, and an administrative legacy that even some Ministers of the Crown see as ‘not fit for purpose’.
    Against this background arguments surrounding the HS2 routes are diversionary and [...]


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  • Blind Man’s ‘Bluff’ - An alternative vision for Britain’s Imperilled Future (Part 1)

    Posted on February 8, 2013 by Professor Benfield

    Along with the rest of the world, over the next 40 years the UK faces rapid population growth, pressure on land, water, energy and other resources, and an administrative legacy that even some Ministers of the Crown see as ‘not fit for purpose’. Continue Reading


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  • Does Halifax’s ‘price drop’ herald house price rises?

    Posted on August 6, 2012 by Professor Benfield

    Although Halifax (6 Aug 12) report a 0.6% fall in house prices in July 2012, they also note that prices remained stable over the preceding 3 months.

    So what is going on? Continue Reading


    This post was posted in News, Articles and was tagged with House prices, Halifax, house price rise, Olympic Jubille inertia, housing exconomist, housing demand, part time working, localism agenda

  • Zero Carbon, 2016, - and All That Jazz

    Posted on January 22, 2012 by Professor Benfield

    What the timber frame sector can contribute.

    The Code for Sustainable Development

    Five years ago I gave a paper on Ecology to the HBF’s “Cracking the Code” conference in Birmingham.  It bombed - big time, and might well still do so today. While in essence ‘ecology’ concerns us all, it is outside daily interests and seen almost as part of a different sphere.

    However, at least one element of my message then is more widely understood today – Climate Change and Zero Carbon. Continue Reading


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  • How High Speed Rail Could Rescue Our Economy

    Posted on December 29, 2011 by Professor Benfield

    This article links the potential for Britain's new HS2 transport infrastructure to spawn new technologies along with architectural and building concepts. In turn these could require our ideas about spatial, environmental and social planning to be revisited.

    Continue Reading


    This post was posted in Articles and was tagged with HS2, High Speed Rail, Economic Recivery, Innovation, Technology, Spatial Planning, Environmental Planning, Vactrain, Architecture, Building, Brunel, Engineering, Tunnelling, Futurology, Social Economy, NIMBY, Transport, Freight, Mobility, Atmospheric Railway, Pneumatic Tube Transport, Maglev, Magnetic Levitation, Inventions, Energy Efficient Transport, Future Economic Development, Broadband, Disagregated City, Brave New World, Philosophy, Shalespear, Kipling, Hucley

  • Shortage of Land with Development Approvals Grows

    Posted on December 20, 2011 by Professor Benfield

    New Home Planning Permits in Short Supply

    According to the latest HBF Housing Pipeline report, planning approvals for new home s in the UK fell by another 10% last year Continue Reading


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  • Carbon emissions exceed economic growth

    Posted on December 19, 2011 by Professor Benfield

    CO2 Emission Warning

    In the Water, Energy & Environment Newsletter of 09/11/2011, Tim McManan-Smith writes that Global emissions are increasing faster than economic growth, reversing a slow, but gradual, reduction in carbon emissions intensity.   Continue Reading


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