L&G secures Kent site to deliver 153 modular homes
Legal & General Modular Homes has partnered with Town & Country Housing to acquire a site in Broadstairs, Kent for the development of 153 modular homes.
Premier Modular secures major facilities contracts for HS2
Awarded by Skanska Costain STRABAG joint venture (SCS JV), Premier Modular has been contracted to provide project offices and welfare facilities for 15 sites that form part of the first phase of HS2.
Modular Building Institute-sponsored 2021 Offsite Construction Expo returns
The Modular Building Institute-sponsored 2021 Offsite Construction Expo is back in Denver, USA, and online – registration is now open.
Collida and Architype team up to develop low carbon homes
Collida, a Willmott Dixon company, has signed a five-year partnership with Architype, to develop a new generation of sustainable homes using MMC solutions.
Offsite Expo: A masterclass in advanced building technology
Bringing together the sector’s most influential innovators, Offsite Expo provides unparalleled access to a wealth of industry intelligence and offsite expertise. Leading multidisciplinary offsite specialists from Cogent Consulting have played a central role in developing the Masterclass speaker programme – here, managing director Darren Richards shares a few of the many highlights.
MMC engagement: As easy as 1,2,3
Housing providers in the South West are working with SWPA, as a long-standing provider of procurement and delivery solutions for offsite, to combine their programmes to deliver a substantial number of beautiful, customisable, zero carbon homes.
ilke Homes to deliver largest low-rise modular housing scheme in Nottingham
ilke Homes has been chosen by Boots to deliver a 622-home scheme in Beeston, Nottingham, which will become the largest low-rise modular housing development in the UK.
Sustainable timber construction: Why the UK needs to be all in
Timber’s green credentials mean the UK has to get fully behind its wider adoption for sustainable construction, says Malcolm Thomson of Scotframe.
Modular homes unveiled at L&G’s Portholme scheme in Selby
Legal & General Modular Homes has unveiled its new modular show homes at its Portholme scheme in Selby.
Green light for eco-friendly modular homes in Kent
Plans by Etopia Homes to deliver 50 eco-friendly homes on a site in Eastry, Kent, have been approved by Dover District Council.
Keepmoat to deliver 300 homes at new Northstowe town
Keepmoat Homes has exchanged contracts to purchase a 300-home site on phase 2 of the new Northstowe town in Cambridgeshire.
3 manufacturers appointed to £600m offsite homes framework
Building Better, the National Housing Federation-supported alliance of 29 housing associations and local authorities has appointed three manufacturers to deliver its first offsite homes framework.
ISG, Kier, Laing O’Rourke and Wates secure £1bn MoJ prisons scheme
ISG, Kier, Laing O’Rourke and Wates have been appointed to the Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ) £1bn New Prisons Programme to build four new adult male prisons across the UK.
Premier secures place on £1.6bn NHS modular framework
Premier Modular has won a place on the £1.6bn NHS shared business services modular construction framework in all seven lots.
Is it time to incentivise MMC?
It's widely accepted that MMC represent the future of volume housebuilding and are a key part of the solution that will enable the sector to hit big sustainability and net-zero targets. Yet significant barriers remain before it's truly viable on the scale at which our biggest housebuilders operate. Ian Atkinson, partner at Womble Bond Dickinson, examines those barriers and explain why incentives could be the answer to accelerating use of these modern methods.
Premier Modular acquires NetZero Buildings
Premier Modular has acquired NetZero Buildings for an undisclosed sum, creating one of the strongest groups in the fast-growing offsite sector.
Modular building: Cost-effective solutions to NHS capacity issues
Recent reports show that NHS waiting lists are at a record high, with more than five million people still awaiting non-urgent surgical treatment. Alan Wilson at ModuleCo explains how modular construction is well suited to efficiently expanding NHS capacity.
Unlocking the market for modular housing in Bristol and the South West
The DPS and the CMM toolkit combined, form a single procurement and delivery package for MMC that will enable local authorities to reach Government targets.
Tolent bags £17m contract to deliver new homes in West Yorkshire
Tolent has secured a £17.7m contract from Yorkshire Housing to deliver 113 new homes in West Yorkshire.
Modular homes to help tackle nationwide homelessness
Developer Hill Group, The Salvation Army and Citizens UK have combined forces to help single people experiencing homelessness get their lives back on track.
The case for MMC in building better and building beautiful
Krishan Pattni, chief design officer at TopHat, outlines the importance of prioritising design for all new build housing, and explores how these policies can work in tandem with modern methods of construction.
Darwin Group starts work on Greenfield School in Surrey
Using Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), Darwin Group has started to deliver construction work at the brand-new education building for Greenfield School in Woking, Surrey.
Want to explore MMC but not sure where to start? Here’s how…
If, as a social housing provider, you’re not fully ready to take the plunge into MMC yet, Gary Cawley, regional director of the Consortium Procurement Construction (CPC), explores the way forward.
Modular housing provider grows order book to over £200m
Modular housing provider, ilke Homes has grown its order book to over £200m after it agrees a £44m deal with ReSI LP’s for-profit provider, ReSI Homes Limited.
Modular housing provides green bay for institutions to park their capital
Joseph Daniels, founder and CEO of Etopia Group, discusses why lenders will need to look to modular housing to comply with their ESG objectives, future-proof their loan books and achieve their net-zero targets.
Morgan Sindall begins work on £10m East Sussex College development
Morgan Sindall has started work on the development of a new teaching facility at Hailsham Community College in Hailsham, East Sussex.
