Amsterdam studio Woonpioniers has hidden a prefabricated wooden cabin with large windows and tall, curving interiors within a forest glade in the Netherlands. The modular dwelling, named Indigo, was designed for a couple who are leasing the rural site in Barchem and wanted a low-impact home that caters to a sustainable lifestyle. It is the […]
Two years ago, CalMatters housing writer Matt Levin described a factory in Vallejo that was building housing modules that could quickly — and relatively inexpensively — be assembled into multi-story apartment houses. Levin described the factory as more resembling an automobile assembly line than a construction site. “They build one floor approximately every two and a half […]
Explosive “Blast Box” Contract Lays Foundations for UK Steel Construction System to Go Nuclear – US University Uses Steel Bricks™ Technology for Advanced Warhead Testing A pioneering UK-based steel construction system is on course to dominate the potentially lucrative global nuclear Small Modular Reactor (SMR) market following the successful delivery of a blast chamber […]
A specialist construction team is making the 11,000km journey home to the UK after successfully completing the groundworks for a new state-of-the-art polar research building at British Antarctic Survey’s (BAS) Rothera Research Station, Antarctica. Foundations for the new scientific support facility, the Discovery Building, were laid and perimeter wall erected this construction season. The new energy-efficient facility will support polar scientists who undertake vital […]
Cooling the planet by filtering excess carbon dioxide out of the air on an industrial scale would require a new, massive global industry – what would it need to work? The year is 2050. Walk out of the Permian Basin Petroleum Museum in Midland, Texas, and drive north across the sun-baked scrub where a few […]
The flats are being built in Newhaven A development of properties in Eastbourne town centre marks the first council homes ever to be constructed using modular technology. The complex of 12 affordable flats is being built off-site in Newhaven by a specialist modular building company and then craned into place in Langney Road. Cabinet Member […]
The firm has formed a strategic partnership with AFC Energy, a hydrogen power generation technology specialist, to trial and scale hydrogen in hard-to-abate activities across the sector. As a first step, the Mace Group will begin testing hydrogen generators on selected construction sites in the UK and internationally in early 2022. Mace Group had notably […]
Synova and Technip Energies announce they have entered into a joint development and cooperation agreement to commercialize Synova’s advanced plastic waste-to-olefins technology, in conjunction with Technip Energies’ steam cracking technology. Synova’s patented thermochemical recycling technology closes the gap in the plastic supply chain, by taking dirty and mixed plastic waste and breaking it down to […]
Wattie Milne, production director, and Callum Milne, managing director, at RADIX A Scottish manufacturer and supplier of ground screws has claimed its new low carbon alternatives to concrete will revolutionise the construction industry. Dundee-based RADIX has worked with a network of collaborators to create a ground screw alternative to concrete foundations which can be installed […]
Work has started on a controversial modular housing development in Bristol. The homes are being built in a factory in Yorkshire and will be assembled on site in the city A total of 185 homes are being built at the Bonnington Walk scheme in Lockleaze, including 64 council houses and 29 shared ownership properties. The […]