Technology

A modular housing factory with the potential to create 2,000 homes a year has opened in Cheshire.

A Countryside and L&Q JV has been given the green light for a 3,000-home regeneration on the site of the former Ford factory in Dagenham, east London.

seismic primary school image credit the mc avoy group Source: The McAvoy Group A new consortium has been launched with £1m of public funding to research and develop offsite methods for building primary schools.

A planning application for the UK’s biggest fully modular council housing and apartment scheme has been submitted in Leeds.

Greater use of offsite in the construction industry could help increase diversity, it has been suggested.

Exclusive: Skanska UK is in the final stages of planning for a new venture to build modular homes made in partnership with Ikea, Construction News can reveal.

L&Q has announced plans to shift its entire housebuilding programme to include offsite manufacturing by the middle of the next decade.

Projects backed by Balfour Beatty, Vinci, Bam Nuttal, Keltbray and Buro Happold are among those chosen to share more than £13m in government grants for digital construction.

Weston Group subsidiary Weston Logistics has opened a £12m housebuilding factory in Braintree, Essex.

Construction technology companies Geniebelt and Aproplan have announced a merger to create a new digital platform called LetsBuild.