New quality assurance framework for offsite manufacturing
New quality assurance framework for offsite manufacturing The Construction Innovation Hub has launched a new quality assurance framework that aims to de-risk platform and offsite manufacturing in construction. The Construction Product Quality Planning (CPQP) framework sets out a best practice approach for manufacturers to follow during the creation of new platform systems and offsite manufactured […]
Growing prospects for MMC
Growing prospects for MMC The prospects for greater use of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) to speed up building and reduce costs by using products built off-site are stronger than recent events suggest, according to Glenigan. A modular housing joint venture set up by Urban Splash collapsed owing its supply chain £12 million, while housebuilder Countryside […]
Countryside puts offsite factory up for sale
Modular housebuilder House by Urban Splash enters administration The residential housebuilder was created when developer Urban Splash bought SIG’s modular arm for £1 in 2018, including its factory in Alfreton. The business was later split off from Urban Splash, although it remained substantially owned by Urban Splash shareholders. Last month the company said it had built its 1,000th modular […]
US Factory-Built Homes Could Help Solve Housing Crisis
US Factory-Built Homes Could Help Solve Housing Crisis EUGENE, Ore. — As a boy in the late 1950s, Terry McDonald watched as workers built an 80,000 square-foot manufacturing plant in an industrial neighborhood on the west side of Eugene. Long after childhood, McDonald felt an affinity for the factory, where American Steel once fabricated heavy-duty […]
Corruption & Economics
Corruption & Economics Today we welcome Fred Harrison back to the podcast. In this interview, we talk about The Corruption of Economics, a book Fred co-wrote with the late, great Professor Mason Gaffney (with an additional contribution from Dr. Kris Feder. Corruption was released in 1994 but as part of our focus on the classics […]
Modular housebuilder House by Urban Splash enters administration
Modular housebuilder House by Urban Splash enters administration The residential housebuilder was created when developer Urban Splash bought SIG’s modular arm for £1 in 2018, including its factory in Alfreton. The business was later split off from Urban Splash, although it remained substantially owned by Urban Splash shareholders. Last month the company said it had built its 1,000th modular […]
Average UK house price hits record £250,000
The Economist this week House prices have hit a record high in April 2022, but the property market is showing signs of slowing as homes take longer to sell and more asking prices are reduced. The average cost of a UK home has broken through the £250,000 barrier for the first time to stand at […]
The Economist this week
The Economist this week For the past 20 years China has been the most reliable source of growth in the world economy, contributing a quarter of the rise in global GDP over that period. Its success has for the most part been powered by pragmatism, as the ruling Communist Party mixed market reforms with state […]
IKEA modular housing scheme turned down by South Glos planners
IKEA modular housing scheme turned down by South Glos planners A planning application from a company part-owned by IKEA to build 48 low-cost modular homes at a site just off the Stoke Gifford By-Pass has been refused permission by officials at South Gloucestershire Council. BoKlok, a partnership between IKEA and construction company Skanska, specialises in homes that […]
Is prefab housing the best solution to solve city’s homes crisis?
Is prefab housing the best solution to solve city’s homes crisis? Prefab housing could be the answer to spiking homeless rate and spilling house prices, according to experts. Norwich is in the midst of a huge building plan which will see 42,000 extra homes in the area in the next two decades. Read More
