New £45m offsite construction facility to deliver up to 4,000 new homes per year British Offsite, the build offsite company of Weston Group plc, has launched ‘Horizon’, a new £45m 137,000 sq ft offsite construction factory in Braintree Designed in collaboration with Swedish robotic engineering firm Randek AB, which uses “state-of-the-art” robotic automated manufacturing to […]
Water catchment house design in Africa win Special Recognition in the Architectural Design category at the Design Educates Awards 2023 Hong-En, Lin introduces a Pure Power/Daily Combat Strategy for Water Collection in Africa, where water resources are often polluted, and where long distances to obtain water make the task difficult. For many people, it can […]
Visit any news site, and you’ll find recent headlines and op-eds describing big tech’s recent stumbles—overzealous hiring sprees in hyper-growth phases have been disrupted by worrying economic signals, which perpetuate a vicious cycle of mass job cuts. The story unraveling in the construction industry, meanwhile, is quite a different one—job openings far outpace workers in […]
Pirta tests revolutionary climate cooling paint at world-renowned solar simulator Pirta has successfully tested the performance of its revolutionary climate ‘cooling paint’ using a world-renowned solar simulator. The Yorkshire firm visited TS Space Systems’ purpose built site in Marlow, UK, to carry out a range of performance tests. Pirta’s unique paint formula has since been […]
HUD Announces Research Grant Opportunity to Study Off-site Construction and Land Use Reforms The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has released a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) to build the evidence base to accelerate the adoption of innovative and effective practices and policies to increase the production and supply of quality, affordable […]
HS2 in UK first, as engineers begin assembling off-site manufactured viaduct HS2 has begun assembling the UK’s first major railway viaduct to be entirely manufactured off-site, in a move that represents a major step forward for viaduct design and promises to boosting safety and efficiency on site. Unlike more traditional viaduct designs, every major element […]
Homeowners embrace solar panels and insulation as cost-of-living crisis bites New data shows that homeowners across the country are turning to solar panels and insulation upgrades to combat high energy costs. According to the new analysis of planning applications by Barbour ABI, the number of planning applications citing insulation has more than doubled since […]
TopHat, a company that builds factory-made modular houses, has completed a deal with France’s largest house builder as it seeks to expand into Europe. The Goldman Sachs-backed firm said it had made an exclusive partnership with Nexity on Wednesday 14 June to “accelerate the development of offsite construction in France”. TopHat will contribute its modular […]
Copyright Octopus Energy UK festival gets an eye-catching 28 metre wind turbine Communities have the opportunity to host the turbine after its Glasto stint, under Octopus Energy’s ‘try before you buy’ scheme. It’s not as if Glastonbury Festival goers need another reason to feel delighted by next week’s line-up. But the likes of Lizzo, Lana […]
TRB Lightweight Structures recreates B-17 flooring panels after 35 years TRB Lightweight Structures is delighted to announce the successful manufacture of replacement balsa wood and aluminium floor panels as part of the B-17 Charitable Trust’s refurbishment of Sally B, Europe’s last remaining airworthy B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft. TRB has led the way in the design […]