All offsite construction articles
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NewsStaff made redundant as offsite specialist Mid Group collapses
Administrators looking to transfer contracts to other firms
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Homes England vows to keep working with ‘innovative partners’ after Urban Splash JV collapse
Administrators say 160 positions will be made redundant as modular business part-owned by Homes England enters administration
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Kier completes £250m prison using MMC
Five Wells prison in Northamptonshire built almost entirely from standardised components
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Comment
MMC will encourage more women into construction
A fixed workplace, flexible shift patterns and job security would all create a better gender balance in the industry, Rosa Turner Wood writes
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Features
Grange University Hospital: How offsite methods helped deliver covid-19 beds and fast-track the whole build
Wales’ biggest ever health infrastructure project, the £350m Grange University Hospital, was planned from the start for rapid delivery, using offsite methods and a collaborative approach – but then covid-19 struck and the client needed beds available even faster. How did the project team do it?
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Pandemic shuts L&G’s modular factory
Insurance giant confirms Leeds plant not operating as firm wins virtual planning for Surrey housing
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Student homes specialist admits sector needs to up game on zero-carbon targets
UPP director says MMC to play bigger role in developments
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Construction Innovation Hub launches offsite programme
Programme announced at Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry
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Greenwich council starts search for offsite homes provider
It is looking for a single “turnkey” provider to build new homes under the £320m deal
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Government assembling £1.2bn modular framework
News comes as government departments team up to look at modern methods of construction
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Birmingham council reveals modular housing plan
Specialists put on notice for the programme's pilot next spring
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Lovell OK'd for 200 homes in Lancashire
The housebuilder will use modern methods of construction at Leyland site
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Peers call on industry to get its act together over off-site manufacturing
House of Lords Science Technology committee report calls for ‘strong leadership’ from the Construction Leadership Council
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Support off-site production to meet your targets, housing associations tell government
Report calls on Homes England to invest if associations are to meet ambitious build targets
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Crest Nicholson to ramp up off-site manufacturing
Housebuilder hopes to have 450 units in off-site production by 2020
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Peers hear modular the only way to solve housing crisis
Willmott Dixon’s Tim Carey tells House of Lords inquiry there is not enough traditional resources
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Comment
Modern methods and the law
The growth of offsite construction methods has a host of legal implications – we must plan ahead for that now
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Comment
Unlocking brownfield sites through digital design and offsite construction
Adopting modern and innovative approaches to both design and construction could help unlock the vital community resource that brownfield sites offer
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News
Housebuilders looking to modern methods to plug housing gap, says survey
Skills shortage and Brexit still pose major barriers to increasing housing stock
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Green light for London timber social housing job
Homes will be built out of engineered timber and constructed offsite
