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Families awaiting social housing in Northern Ireland will be able to move in a year earlier as Clanmil Housing Association<\/a> joins forces with McAvoy Group<\/a> to deliver new homes using offsite solutions<\/h2>\n

An entire factory-built modular house can now be erected on prefabricated foundations in a single day, ready for connection to gas, electricity and water supplies.<\/p>\n

Forty on the site of the former Woodside\u2019s food store in Carrickfergus in Co Antrim will be the first social homes<\/a> in Northern Ireland delivered using offsite factory construction, Clanmil said.<\/p>\n

The modules will be delivered to the site complete with kitchens, bathrooms, windows, flooring and decorated walls.<\/p>\n

The \u00a36.2m housing scheme, a mix of family houses and apartments for active older people, is being built by Clanmil with the assistance of \u00a33.1m grant support from the Department for Communities.<\/p>\n

The new homes, each made up of a number of steel-framed modules, will be manufactured and fully fitted-out by McAvoy in its Lisburn factory before being craned into position on site.<\/p>\n

The construction method will reduce the build time for the Carrickfergus development by 56 weeks compared to traditional site-based building, delivering 40 new homes in just nine months.<\/p>\n

David Orr, chief executive of the National Housing Federation<\/a>, said: \u201cThe UK\u2019s housing shortfall is only going to be addressed by radical innovation in building practices, such as modular housing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis method of construction has real potential to help address the current housing shortage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the UK, the Government sees off-site manufacture as a huge opportunity and has promised to support housing providers to build more homes in this way.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is really exciting to see a Northern Ireland housing association and a Northern Ireland manufacturer working together to harness innovation that can deliver homes in up to half the normal time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clare McCarty, Group Chief Executive at Clanmil said: \u201cThere are currently 24,000 households in desperate need of homes across Northern Ireland.\u00a0 We want to help get those families off the housing waiting list and into good homes as quickly as possible.\u00a0 The rising cost of building materials and a labour skills shortage in the construction industry, compounded by uncertainty due to Brexit, makes this extremely challenging using traditional methods.\u00a0 That\u2019s why Clanmil has been looking at alternative ways to deliver social homes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe off-site manufacture of homes has many advantages \u2013 significant time savings, better build quality and improved health and safety due to factory production processes, and a much lower environmental impact both from manufacture and over the building\u2019s entire life cycle.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe see off-site construction as the future.\u00a0 It could completely revolutionise house-building and we are delighted to be partnering with The McAvoy Group, a Northern Ireland company well known for its experience and expertise in modular construction for other sectors, on this its first residential project.\u201d<\/p>\n

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