Scaling up and maturing the offsite manufacturing sector could create an “Uber moment” for housebuilding, says Dave Sheridan, executive chairman of ilke Homes.
New build housing starts fell by 9% in the first quarter of 2019, according to the latest statistics. Joseph Daniels, chief executive of modular homes provider Project Etopia, argues that the system is clearly failing and there is a need for speed in both planning and construction.
Advanced Industrialised Methods for the Construction of Homes (AIMCH) is a pioneering project that puts collaboration, digital working and large-scale offsite manufacturing at the heart of tackling the housing crisis. Stewart Dalgarno, director of product development at Stewart Milne Timber Systems, explains how it works.
Ian Atkinson and Ryan Lavers of law firm Womble Bond Dickinson examine the rise of Modern Methods of Construction and whether they are having the impact predicted.
Modular, offsite construction has received major recognition after SPECIFIC’s Active Office took home the first-ever Innovation in Delivering a Sustainable Education Facility Award.
The Construction Innovation Hub is offering businesses the chance to get involved in the Platform Design Programme which will create the next generation of DfMA new build projects.
As the single recognised voice for promoting and marketing members’ products and services, the MPBA plays a key role in the connecting of sectors in the modular and portable building industry.
Bouygues Batiment International and Dragages Singapore have completed the construction of the world’s tallest modular buildings, the Clement Canopy buildings in Singapore.
New purpose-built modular buildings will restore world-leading research facilities at the University of St Andrews following the fire that destroyed the Biomedical Sciences building earlier this year.
As highlighted at the recent NHF annual conference, Housing 2019, bringing modular construction into the mainstream will be essential if we are to build more homes and to build them better.
The housing market as we know it is shifting; construction experts are looking for an alternative to conventional homes, and modular buildings could be the answer.
The housing committee has urged the government to embrace Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) in order to meet the target to build 300,000 new homes a year by mid-2020s.
