Archive for the 'Floodplain development' Category

New British Flood Awareness Initiative

23 January, 2008

NGM Developments have partnered with several companies, including Zurich Building Guarantee, Envirocentre and GVA Grimley to launch the British Flood Awareness Initiative. The sponsors behind this initiative have invited the most respected voices behind flood defence and floodplain development to answer a series of pertinent questions. The answers to these questions could help us [...]

British mayor visits Dutch floating home

5 September, 2007

A Reuters report on prefabricated, floating homes in Amsterdam, Holland, talks about the likelihood of waterside living driven by climate change. The Mayor of Seaton in England, Sandra Sexton, has travelled to The Netherlands to investigate the future of living with water in Britain.

Key additions to the NGM team for the development of floodplain land

23 August, 2007

Exciting proposals to construct floating dockland buildings in Middlesbrough and Liverpool have received a major boost with the announcement of two new directors for the property company, NGM Sustainable Developments Ltd.
Derek Cochrane, a former Regeneration Director at British Waterways, has been appointed as a new non-executive board director and consultant for NGM. Derek, 56, who [...]

NGM Sustainable Developments Limited signs partnership agreement with OSM Homes

22 August, 2007

OSM Homes recently tied up a partnership with NGM Developments, a developer which specialises in floating homes and hopes to build 600 units in the next four years using the OSM product. Floating bases will be imported from Holland by NGM.
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