As the international trade association for modular construction, the Modular Building Institute's mission is to expand the use of offsite construction through innovation and education.
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.
Speaking at the CIH conference in Manchester on 25 June, Dave Sheridan, ilke Homes, said that housing associations could improve quality by embracing OSM.
AEDAS Homes has launched its industrialised Vanian Valley development in Estepona, Spain, using offsite construction to speed up the delivery time of residential projects.
Though not a new idea, recent government reports and the housing shortage have brought renewed interest in offsite as an alternative to traditional building methods.
