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Broad Group erects 10-storey steel apartment building in 28 hours

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A Chinese manufacturer has once again demonstrated the use of its modular construction method by erecting a 10-storey apartment block in a little over a day.

Broad Group accomplished the feat in its home town of Changsha using...

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Warren Buffett targets commercial modular construction

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Warren Buffett is forging further into modular construction, leveraging the Berkshire Hathaway-owned MiTek engineered building products and construction software firm to launch a hybrid offsite-on site building model targeted at...

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Raising the Sustainability Stakes

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Environmental discussions used to focus on lifecycle analysis including recycling at the end of a building's practical life. More recently the focus has been on embodied carbon probably because it is a less complex calculation and easier to...

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Mitigating Risks in Residential Buildings

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Light steel structures fully comply with the requirements of the Building Regulations and leading warranty providers. Performance covers structural, fire, acoustics, thermal, airtightness, weathertightness,...

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Offsite Construction is here to stay

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Why should you consider adopting an offsite construction process?

There are many benefits to offsite construction. Moving building processes away from the physical site and into a controlled factory environment not only makes it...

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Navigating the World of designing healthcare spaces

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The demands of healthcare architecture are entirely unique to its own regulations, needs and complexities. Philip Ruffle, Director at Munday + Cramer, outlines the wide scope of considerations on how space is used and why offsite thinking can...

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Arup teams up with off-site start-up WoHo to revolutionise modular building

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UK consulting engineer Arup has teamed with Massachusetts off-site construction firm WoHo to make modular building affordable, greener and easier to scale.

Arup will help WoHo (short for World Home) to develop solutions in structural,...

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Safe, Sustainable Roofing Solutions from MEDITE SMARTPLY

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A perhaps little anticipated knock-on effect of the on-going Covid-19 pandemic is the global return to disposable commodity items—for safety against virus transmission. For today’s increasingly environmentally conscious society,...

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NHBC Accepts: Driving Offsite Housing Excellence

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NHBC provide warranty and insurance for around 75-80% of the new homes built in the UK each year. With the recent launch of NHBC Accepts, they now bring decades of expertise and knowledge to the offsite world. We spoke to Richard Lankshear,...

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Offsite Future: Data & Digitalisation

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Graham Cleland, Managing Director of Berkeley Modular, sees digitalisation as an enabler to scale and a way to leverage productivity. With the landscape of the UK's offsite sector becoming increasingly populated over the last few years, what...

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