NHBC, the UK’s largest new homes warranty and insurance provider, recently hosted the first Affordable Housing Innovators event in partnership with the British Property Federation.
Advanced Industrialised Methods for the Construction of Homes (AIMCH), the research and development initiative set up to transform housebuilding, has published its second annual progress report showing “encouraging results” for Modern Methods of Construction. PBC Today takes a look.
ModuleCo are just weeks from installing the new Ophthalmic Operating Theatre Suite for the Somerset NHS Foundation Trust at their Musgrove Park Hospital site.
Jane Tabiner, managing director of Solutions Asset Finance (SAF), explores how the next 12 months will be a pivotal time for modular building providers as the demand for MMC projects increases across the public sector.
Willmott Dixon has completed the construction of the £33m Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building, which has been assembled with components manufactured offsite, at the University of Warwick.
Stephen Stone, non-exec director and board member of ilke Homes, explores why new building regulations, on-going issues around build quality and a chronic lack of skilled labour mean housebuilding will now be forced to innovate.
Premier Modular has worked closely with its waste management partners, ACM, to set up new systems and procedures for recycling to ensure that there is zero waste to landfill as a result of its offsite manufacturing operations.
Constructing Modern Methods (CMM) and the South West Procurement Alliance (SWPA) has launched a new £1.1bn procurement solution to unlock offsite, low carbon housing.
Stanhope and Laing O’Rourke have signed the £60m contract to deliver One Wood Crescent, a ten-storey commercial development on plot D of the former BBC Television Centre.
A joint venture between the government’s Homes England, Sekisui House and Urban Splash has delivered the first modular homes at the new town of Northstowe.
TopHat has submitted a planning application to deliver the company’s first factory-built apartments at its flagship Kitchener Barracks site in Chatham, Kent.
ilke Homes has added a further 225 factory-built affordable homes in Essex to its portfolio after securing 14.5-acre site in Southend-on-Sea where the company plans to deliver environmentally friendly family homes.
To meet the government’s ambitious net zero targets, we must take a joined-up approach to explore the most viable options for removing gas from design, says Craig Harrison, operations director for modular contracts at Newtons Group.
Premier Modular has been awarded a £9.8m contract to build a 62-bed priority assessment unit at St Peter’s Hospital in Chertsey for the NHS Foundation Trust.
Advanced Industrialised Methods for the Construction of Homes (AIMCH) has today (9 March) published its second-year progress report showing promising results and key learnings for the construction industry.
Homes England and development partners Atkins and Faithful+Gould have finalised the research themes for its six-year, 1,800 home MMC research commission.
