Jackie Maginnis, chief executive of the Modular and Portable Building
Association (MPBA), explores how the organisation is playing a key
role in supporting the modular building industry
The benefits of volumetric modular...
In her report Building a Safer Future, Dame Judith Hackitt highlights the need for a system-based approach with a golden thread of information running through the lifecycle of each project. Here, MPBA CEO Jackie Maginnis argues the case for...
The government faces an ever-growing list of issues that it needs to tackle. Covid's immediate legacy is rising unemployment, with almost two million now out of work. That's only going to increase as support schemes such as furlough are tapered...
Jane Tabiner, managing director of Solutions Asset Finance (SAF), explores how the next 12 months will be a pivotal time for modular building providers as the demand for MMC projects increases across the public sector
The pandemic...
OneNinety Manufacturing has pulled together the best talent from manufacturing and offsite construction to launch its first factory in Stockton-on-Tees. Using an innovative manufacturing assembly line process, the company has now completed...
While 2020 was labelled 'the worst year ever' by many, sentiments
in the modular steel sector are rather different.
"The pandemic has perversely been quite good for us," says
Ryan Simmonds, Sigmat's pre-contracts director,...
Rollalong has completed its latest residential development, delivering 13 new modular council-owned homes in Barking, East London.
The modular homes were manufactured at Rollalong's factory in Dorset and later installed at Sugden Way in...
Impact Capital submits plans for Rom Valley Gardens regeneration project
Start-up modular housebuilder and developer Impact Capital has submitted new plans for a 1,010-home regeneration scheme in Romford.
The £400m...
Modular builder TopHat is to supply 183 factory-built homes to the next phase of the Kitchener Barracks development in Chatham, Kent.
The planning application, submitted to Medway Council this week, includes proposals...
RCKa has won approval to build a modular, 39-unit hostel for Camden Council in north London
The scheme in Camden Road will replace an existing hostel building, which comprised one-bedroom...
Sika UK has grown steadily over the past few years, despite operating in challenging market conditions and have appointed Simon Griffiths as Head of Sales – Modular Construction, a role that will see him build on the continued growth of the...
Jackie Maginnis, Chief Executive, Modular and Portable Building Association (MPBA) discusses how offsite construction can respond to help provide a solution to the many recent events that have resulted in the construction industry coming under...
Building 11 is a particularly unique building at the heart of the Royal Arsenal Riverside development in Woolwich, combining the refurbishment of a listed building with offsite delivery.
Building 11 is part of the Royal Arsenal...
Offsite construction is transforming the built environment and nowhere is that felt most in the housing sector, with volumetric modular methods providing huge opportunities for change. Andrew Shepherd, Managing Director at TopHat, talked to us...
Geoff Pearce, Deputy Chief Executive at Swan Housing, told
us about a busy 2021 ahead as its second factory gets ready to transform
production of both its cross laminated timber (CLT) and steel frame-based
homes.
Swan Housing was an...
