Did you know:

• Although we now know a "skyscaper" as a very tall building, originally the term referred to anything tall, like a triangular sky-sail that soared into the air.  It was even used for tall horses or humans!
• The first elevator installed in a high building in 1857 travelled at 0.45mph.  Today's modern lifts travel much faster and the ones installed in the Shanghai Tower reach speeds over 45mph - which is 100x as fast!
• For 3,800 years the Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest  structure in the world at 455 feet.  Today the pyramid would cost nearly £1billion to build.
• A Chinese construction company was able to beat all records and complete a 57-storey building in 19 days 
• The Hoover Dam in the US was built with the incredible volume of 3,250,000 square yards of concrete.
  

In the UK there are some very big house builders we've all heard of, including Taylor Wimpey, Barrett, Berkeley, Persimmon and quite a few more.  Many of these companies build new homes across the  country, or sometimes they operate on a regional basis.

They build thousands of properties every year to fulfil the needs of the market.  They don't generally build individual homes of a bespoke nature and their head offices are unlikely to be located in your area.

When choosing a builder for a special home, you might want to look more locally for builders who know the area and what will suit the environment as well as the client.  It's astonishing how many times we see individual houses or small estates that look as though they belong in an urban environment, or properties in a rural setting that look like something out of "Footballers' Wives". 

We believe we should be building modern houses that incorporate energy-saving designs, yet blend with the area. Homes that please the eye, whilst acknowledging there are many different tastes and no style suits everyone.  By working with professional architects we can produce designs that work on many levels, are practical, money-saving and beautiful.  That's what we aim for our Horsham Builders to produce.