The government has invited businesses to bid in two competitions worth up to £36m to fund collaborative R&D and demonstrator projects. Both competitions focus on modern methods of construction, digital and whole-asset performance. UK Research and Innovation is providing the funding through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund’s Transforming Construction Challenge. The two competitions are as […]
To make the initial jump towards carbon neutrality, there are four key steps the industry must embrace, says Ramboll’s Mathew Riley.
Following the recent recommendations from …
The local council in Worthing, West Sussex, aims to be the first to bring modular homes built by a joint venture between Ikea and Skanska to the UK.
Worthing Borough Council said it was looking to enter …
It has been a busy period for lifting specialist Britlift as its services are in high demand in the modular and offsite construction sectors 2018 proved a successful year for Britlift in the offsite construction sector as a number of new clients came on board involved in the manufacture of modular buildings and bathroom pods […]
Approximately 20% of construction costs are wrapped up in fixing errors. Barcelona-based Scaled Robotics wants to minimize the rework by automating progress monitoring with autonomous mobile robots…
Activity in Britain’s construction industry shrank for a third month in a row in July as Brexit worries hit building projects, new research has shown.The IHS Markit/CIPS construction Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose to 45.3, a less severe contraction than June’s 43.1 – which was the weakest reading in more than 10 years – but […]
Speaking to Development Finance Today, Robert Orr, managing director of development finance at Paragon, evaluates how the division is progressing and what challenges smaller developers may face this year. You recently announced that new development lending at Paragon increased fourfold. Do you expect this to become a more prominent part of your commercial division? Yes, […]
Water heating accounts for approximately 20 to 30 percent of household energy demand. Much of the energy is expended warming the water coming into the shower and other areas of the house. By transferring some of the heat …
By James Mills, Product Manager at ROCKWOOL ROCKWOOL, the world’s largest producer of non-combustible stone wool insulation, has introduced two new ranges dedicated to timber and steel frame construction applications Timber Frame Slab and Steel Frame Slab are specifically designed to help developers take advantage of the many performance characteristics associated with ROCKWOOL, providing […]
Delivering those 300,000 homes per year is a challenge and attention is very focused right now on Modern Methods of Construction. But what does MMC actually mean?