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For more than 100 years steel and concrete have been the default structural frame material for tall buildings. Accordingly, while Western society has embraced wooden buildings across various typologies, the idea of a wooden high-rise or even...

With eight decades of experience behind it, voestalpine Metsec plc is pioneering offsite framing in the construction industry.

Voestalpine Metsec plc is the UK's largest specialist cold roll-forming company, providing products for the...

The Manchester Life Development Company continues to develop Manchester’s inner city areas.

As future economic growth in Manchester relies on regenerating key areas for its ever increasing urban residential population, areas such as...

The National Institute of Building Sciences Off-Site Construction Council (OSCC) released its findings from the "Report of the Results of 2018 Off-Site Construction Industry Survey".

On January 7, the National Institute of...

Much has been written about the performance of modular houses; each design is different and hence there is no standardisation of the interfaces. To add to this, composite panel construction does not fall under any recognised standard. As a...

A recent survey of UK construction executives by law firm Clyde & Co revealed very low investment to date in offsite manufacturing, and few expectations that offsite would have much impact within five to 10 years.

The findings come...

New technologies such as offsite manufacture could considerably improve the productivity of the construction industry, says Lord Mair.

On 12 December there will be a House of Lords debate taking note of the Report from the Science and...

We all know that the construction industry has issues, and frequently these boil down to us believing things should be delivered faster and cheaper. Progress, according to widely accepted thinking, lies in building more off site. In other words,...

Housing crisis headlines focus overwhelmingly on rising prices keeping people off the property ladder, but seldom mention the scarcity of social housing which is leading to spiralling inequality across the country.

Recent social housing...

Much discussion has been made within the offsite sector about achieving a 60-year lifetime design (equating to two mortgage spans) for modular housing, but what happens after this? If we assume that a prospective purchaser obtains a 30-year...