UK-based Alliance for Sustainable Building Products (ASBP) has been awarded a €97,000 Accelerator Fund from Built by Nature, a grant-making organisation with a mission to accelerate the timber building transformation in Europe.
Richard Hipkiss, development director of the Modular & Portable Building Association (MPBA), explains why it is imperative to think of the ‘end’ right at the beginning of the design stage to enhance sustainability of the construction value chain.
New modern methods of construction see the industry choosing faster, automated ways to build through using off-site construction techniques and mass production to improve efficiency in construction, explains Parm Bhangal of Bhangals Construction Consultants.
Morgan Sindall Construction has delivered a £4m outpatients unit at St Richard's Hospital, using a modular building to create additional accomodation on site.
Specialist offsite manufacturer M-AR is celebrating 15 years of business as it continues to champion offsite solutions to the wider construction industry.
We all know that we need to protect the environment and try to undo some of the damage that has been done in the past. West Fraser, one of the UK’s leading wood panel manufacturers, takes this mission very seriously, with 99.5% of raw material being used during production of its boards.
West Fraser's CaberShieldPlus flooring is a durable, P5 flooring with a permanent, waterproof coating on both sides. Almost exclusively preferred now to P4 boards, the P5 particleboard panels can withstand the unpredictable British climate without deterioration.
Kashif Dafedar, digital products lead at CallisonRTKL, looks at the four key advantages of modular construction from a design angle, including greater flexibility, less pollution and construction waste, optimised energy and automation and cost efficiency.
Build Warranty explores the role prefabricated modular housing has in delivering greener, better, faster homes as part of the UK government's ambitious target of building 300,000 new homes annually by 2025.
Paul Nash, construction consultant, Jansons Property, explores why the adoption of MMC at scale within the housing sector failed to materialise and what needs to change for this to happen.
Alex Micallef, UK general manager at Graitec, explores the need to draw further on digital technology in order to make MMC and offsite construction methods mainstream.
A mix of materials should form the offsite sector’s zero carbon toolkit, argues Sam Hart, head of Modern Methods of Construction at Built Environment – Smarter Transformation.
Offsite modular specialist M-AR has completed the purchase of its existing manufacturing facility in Hull, further strengthening its future growth in the offsite construction sector.
Modular construction adds efficiencies, is eco-friendly and may attract younger generations to construction industry careers, says Benedict Wallbank, BIM strategy and partnerships manager, Trimble Viewpoint.
In September, Timber Development UK became the largest timber supply chain body in the UK following the merger of the Timber Trade Federation and TRADA, bringing together more than 1,500 businesses. As TDUK looks ahead to the future of the timber trade sector, TDUK chief executive Dave Hopkins asks whether timber in UK construction has a larger role to play.
The DfMA Toolkit embeds a wealth of project and supplier data, enabling users to benchmark against their own projects and make more informed and sustainable decisions with the aid of the transport directions and carbon calculator, says Alan Saleh, production innovation manager at L&Q and workstream lead at COLAB.
Dr Mark Woods, chief strategy officer at the Centre for Modelling & Simulation (CFMS), believes that digital engineering is a crucial tool in compressing development cycles across the construction sector; and highlights how this can be leveraged to support the industry through a turbulent time.
A Devon-based designer and manufacturer of bespoke furniture has used West Fraser’s SterlingOSB Zero for some of his more recent commissions utilising the material’s aesthetic as well as physical and practical benefits to striking effect.
The government has set out a vision for the education sector to be world leading in sustainability by 2030. As Richard Hipkiss, development director of the Modular & Portable Building Association (MPBA), makes clear – central to shaping that will be the increased use of volumetric modular design.
A Surrey loft conversion specialist is making extensive use of SterlingOSB Zero from panel product manufacturer West Fraser, based on the board’s value, performance and ease of installation.
