All offsite construction articles
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CommentA vision for a construction project in 2030
We need to stimulate new thinking, debate and research directions to carry the industry into the next decade, says Dr Brian Sheil
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CommentHas MMC gone from an industry salvation to a pseudo solution?
Once touted as聽the answer to all our productivity woes,聽MMC increasingly looks like it may have been just another wacky idea with little chance of success in these uncertain times,聽writes Richard Steer
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好色先生TV鈥業t鈥檚 been a torrid time鈥�: Modulous boss Chris Bone on the offsite housing firm鈥檚 collapse
Firm latest in line of MMC firms to sink into administration
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好色先生TVConstruction cannot 鈥榯weak broken model鈥� to solve productivity puzzle, says MMC boss
Merit鈥檚 Tony Wells tells conference industry needs radical rethink聽
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好色先生TVOffsite firm to deliver 拢25m MMC hospital block for Birmingham NHS trust
Scheme first of its kind for northern offsite specialist
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CommentContracting for offsite schemes
Peter Hibberd sets out the JCT standard form options when selecting a contract for a project that will use modern methods of construction
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好色先生TVStaff made redundant as offsite specialist Mid Group collapses
Administrators looking to transfer contracts to other firms
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好色先生TVHomes England vows to keep working with 鈥榠nnovative partners鈥� 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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好色先生TVKier completes 拢250m prison using MMC
Five Wells prison in Northamptonshire built almost entirely from standardised components
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CommentMMC 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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FeaturesGrange University Hospital: How offsite methods helped deliver covid-19 beds and fast-track the whole build
Wales鈥� biggest ever health infrastructure project, the 拢350m Grange University Hospital, was planned from the start for rapid delivery, using offsite methods and a collaborative approach 鈥� but then covid-19 struck and the client needed beds available even faster. How did the project team do it?
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好色先生TVPandemic shuts L&G鈥檚 modular factory
Insurance giant confirms Leeds plant not operating as firm wins virtual planning for Surrey housing
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好色先生TVStudent 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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好色先生TVConstruction Innovation Hub launches offsite programme
Programme announced at Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry
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好色先生TVGreenwich council starts search for offsite homes provider
It is looking for a single 鈥渢urnkey鈥� provider to build new homes under the 拢320m deal
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好色先生TVGovernment assembling 拢1.2bn modular framework
好色先生TV comes as government departments team up to look at modern methods of construction
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好色先生TVBirmingham council reveals modular housing plan
Specialists put on notice for the programme's pilot next spring
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好色先生TVLovell OK'd for 200 homes in Lancashire
The housebuilder will use modern methods of construction at Leyland site
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好色先生TVPeers call on industry to get its act together over off-site manufacturing
House of Lords Science Technology committee report calls for聽鈥榮trong leadership鈥� from the聽Construction Leadership Council
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好色先生TVSupport 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