CD Hood commercial builders in Cambridge are working on a lab and a corridor refurbishment for Sagentia in Harston, Cambridge at the moment.
We have worked successfully with Sagentia over the past few years, helping them to expand their labs and buildings in accordance to the growth of their R & D consultancy services to start-ups throughout the global market leaders.

Sagentia is a global innovation, technological and product development company. They have headquarters across the globe in Cambridge, UK and US.
Quadro Design, is part of Sagentia’s new design service. Quadro delivers award winning innovation and product design using processes tailored to each business need. This gives their business the edge, as unlike other ID firms their design is grounded in real science and technology, which ensures that end products deliver real benefits to the intended user.
If you would like find out more about Sagentia, then why not visit their website @ http://www.sagentia.com/

CD Hood, commercial builders in Cambridge specialise in developing schools, whether it’s building a new wing to renovating an existing building. 

We have just recently completed a hygiene facility for Spring Common School in Huntingdon. The school was called ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted in 2012, was in need of hygiene facility. 

The project was quite involved and took much planning to ensure that we made sure that the work was completed within 9 days, to make sure that it fitted in with the Easter Break, to minimise disruption to the school. 

All of our team of internal and external contractors are CRB checked to make sure that there are no problems on site. Our experience in school buildings mean that we can start a project from concept to finish, seamlessly, with little disruption to the schools busy timetable. If you are looking at developing your school, then why not give one of our team a call on: 01353 658403,  we deliver on time and on budget.

At CD Hood, commercial and domestic builders in Cambridge, we sometimes see horror stories of poorly constructed loft conversions. Many builders, short of work, have been specialising in this area, but they do not have the skill or experienced needed to carry out a good loft conversion. In the worse case scenario, sometimes it can cost the same amount as the original conversion to put things right. 

If loft conversions have been constructed badly there are all sorts of things that can go wrong. If a loft is not properly insulated for example you could find that you are too hot in summer and too cold the rest of the year, as a large percentage of our energy can go out of our loft space, it’s vital to get this right. 

Planning your loft space is vital – for example if you build a shower under a slopping roof, you might not be able to stand under it, to use it. This might seem obvious, but if you leave the planning to an inexperienced builder, you could end up with all sorts of problems. The key is in the planning, it is better to take your time designing and preparing your loft conversion with your architect and builder, rather than rushing it through, This slow, cautious, clever approach to loft conversion is strongly endorsed by Julian Owen, an architect: "I recommend a consulting structural engineer. Any roof structure has to be treated with great respect. The forces involved are comparatively quite large. Roofs have a tendency to spreading, to push out. The big problem is getting enough space through the ceiling ties to put the stairs in."

When looking for a builder, check out their credentials, there are so many on-line forums and so fourth, a reputable builder won’t mind if you want to go around and check out some of the loft conversions they have done before.

CD Hood Commercial builders in Cambridge, specialise in creating new offices and school buildings, and improving existing school buildings, in and around the Cambridge area. Our business has been built on the foundations of reliability and delivering a high standard of work, we are always striving to achieve the best for our customers. 

We help schools to maximise their buildings potential, working closely with architects, designers and planning offices to make sure we achieve the best possible results. 

We understand all of the processes of creating a new school space/s from concept to design, and we will be able to guide you through process. 

All of our team have been CRB checked, and if we need to use external contractors we make sure they have been checked too. 

So if you are considering developing a new or existing commercial property, then why not give our team a call on 01353 658403, and we will be happy to discuss all of the options available to you.

CSEJ Ltd, commercial and domestic builders in Cambridge, were not surprised to see that house prices in England and Wales have increased by £532 last month, and over the past year they have increased by £6,700 according to LSL property figures.
David Newnes, director of LSL Property Services stated: “House prices have only fallen once in the last 16 months, life has become marginally easier for first time buyers and house sales are increasing.

"But there is still a long way to go. Mortgage availability is poor by historic standards. There is an army of first time buyers trying to enter the housing market but they are being held back by tough mortgage criteria. The key to the recovery of the housing market is more mortgages for first time buyers. The Funding for Lending scheme has gone some way to doing that. It has eased the pressure on the market, allowing lenders to lower mortgage rates which have helped boost the first time buyer market. But it needs to be increased in scale if it is to have a more significant effect.

"Sadly, the improvements in mortgage availability, prices and sales have not been spread evenly across England and Wales. Big regional disparities remain. The market in the South East, particularly London, is going great guns, but less affluent areas are struggling. While the north is showing less resilience, having experienced the largest fall in house prices, areas in the South including Brighton, Surrey, Bristol and Cardiff have seen prices soar.”

If you are looking to invest in a new building or extend and existing one, then why not contact CD Hood, commercial and domestic builders in Cambridge.