Macquarie’s UK Build to Rent platform – Goodstone Living – has secured over £100m of debt financing from NatWest and Allied Irish Bank, to support the delivery of Smith’s Garden, the UK’s largest modular Build to Rent community in Birmingham. “Quality Build to Rent is an increasingly important housing tenure for the UK and we […]
Modulek helps RMA – The Royal Marines Charity, Lympstone get a firm footing for 2023. Leading true hybrid construction company Modulek was delighted to attend the official opening of RMA – The Royal Marines Charity’s new building on the 13th of July. The new CHAMP building will house the charity’s service staff and provide […]
The NHS in Wales built the Grange University Hospital in Gwent using MMC A lack of progress on a ‘template’ to standardise hospital design across England is delaying the government’s hospital building programme, a report has found. According to the National Audit Office (NAO), the government will miss its pledge, made in Boris Johnson’s 2019 […]
Offsite Solutions, the UK’s leading bathroom pod manufacturer, has been awarded two contracts totalling £5m for nearly 1,500 bathroom pods for Downing’s first co-living scheme. Offsite Solutions has worked on more than 20 Downing projects since 2013, involving the manufacture of nearly 10,000 pods to date in contracts worth over £23m. Designed by Simpson Haugh, […]
Construction firms could claim tens of thousands back in R&D tax relief – Just 8% of R&D claims in 2022 came from the construction industry The construction industry is one of the largest sectors of the UK economy, employing around 3 million people and building the foundations of the future with new homes, factories, […]
Manufacturing firm rebrands as part of broader growth strategy A manufacturing firm that has an office in Elland has launched a brand change as part of an expansion drive. Sigmat, with a manufacturing facility and support centre in Leeds and design and engineering offices in Skipton and Elland, aims to double turnover and employment between […]
Flat sheets of a fungal material could provide a safe and sustainable new way to fireproof buildings, according to researchers. The panels, developed by a team at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, are made of mycelium, a network of fungal strands that can thrive on organic waste and in darkness. Touted in recent years as […]
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 […]