Light Steel Frame News

Balfour starts £171m Sussex Uni student DBFO job

19th February 2024
BALFOUR BEATTY HAS JUST STARTED WORK ON A 1900-BED STUDENT ACCOMMODATION SCHEME FOR SUSSEX UNIVERSITY AFTER CLOSING A 54-YEAR DESIGN, BUILD, FINANCE AND MAINTAIN DEAL.
 

McCarthy Stone delivers specialist retirement properties with MMC

8th February 2024
Leading developer McCarthy Stone has proven MMC can be used to successfully deliver nine retirement communities and has begun work on the tenth  Since 2021, McCarthy Stone has used...
 

Hadley Group announce the establishment of HadleyFRAME

29th January 2024
Hadley Group have elevated their construction arm by establishing a new division dedicated to full contract delivery. The HadleyFRAME Contracting Division provide the procurement, design, engineering, production and...
 

How can MMC help ease the UK’s housing crisis?

22nd January 2024
Ross Baxter, managing director of Saint-Gobain Off-Site Solutions, explains how Categories two, three, five, and six as defined by the UK Government's cross-industry working group for Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), can be utilised as part of...
 

A New Chapter for Light Gauge Steel Framing

17th January 2024
For over 30 years SCI has been a leading player in the development and promotion of light gauge steel framing. This early development work has been crucial to growth in the usage of light gauge steel framing over that period, which has also been driven by benefits such as speed of construction, sustainability credentials, design flexibility and technological advances.  ICW will become the latest building warranty provider to have a dedicated chapter on light gauge steel framing in their technical manual when their updated version is released later this year. 
 

Frameclad Achieves ISO Standard Certifications

9th January 2024
Frameclad have shared that they have recently achieved ISO 9001 (Quality Management Systems), ISO 14001 (Environmental Management Systems), and ISO 45001 (Occupational Health and Safety...
 

MoU signed for Centre for Innovation in Advanced Materials

15th December 2023
Tata Steel has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with The Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials in Manchester, to set up a Centre for Innovation in Advanced Materials. Tata Steel is investing £10m over four years...
 

A Partnership Delivering Innovation & Results

14th December 2023
Fusion Steel Framing became part of The Hill Group in July 2022, with both parties aligned in their vision for high-quality housebuilding, MMC and sustainability. Mike Fairey, Managing Director of Fusion Steel Framing, picks out some recent successes. 
 

British Offsite Factory Tour

14th December 2023
British Offsite worked with the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) to help scope out Horizon, with mapping exercises, layout advice and used the existing Skyline facility to help inform its decisions on the production line. When working at full capacity in 2025, the new factory will look to deliver 110,000 linear metres of its UNIsystem with an aim of creating 4,000 homes per year. 
 

In-House Expertise: The Key Driving Force

13th December 2023
As a BOPAS-accredited light steel frame specialist, Frameclad's advanced offsite manufacturing infrastructure is underpinned by customised digital technology. But as Joint Managing Director Nik Teagle says, the firm's in-house capabilities are the driving force behind their success. 
 

Government can’t subsidise MMC forever, warns housing minister

12th December 2023
Aspirations around modern methods of construction "not yet" achieved, Lee Rowley says The housing minister has warned that the government cannot subsidise modern methods of construction (MMC) forever, but that it...
 

McCarthy Stone: Modern Methods of Construction

11th December 2023
Last week the Exec team and main Board visited the McCarthy Stone construction site in Failsworth, Oldham, the first scheme to bring together Modern Methods of Construction with our Older Persons Shared Ownership offering (OPSO) to provide a low...
 

‘No government engagement on product testing review’, Morrell tells MPs

29th November 2023
The government has failed to engage with the findings of a key product testing review that itself had commissioned, one of the report's authors told a Commons select committee this week. The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities...
 

LSFA Host Debate on the Implications of New Safety Legislation

27th November 2023
Claimed to be the biggest change in over 40 years, the new Building Safety Act came into force with little fanfare – creating barely a ripple across the construction landscape.  But the significance of this legislation was...
 

Jacobs picked to manage decarbonisation of Europe’s largest steel mill

22nd November 2023
US engineer Jacobs has been selected by ThyssenKrupp to manage the decarbonisation of Europe's largest steel mill in Duisburg, western Germany. The project involves substituting coke blast furnaces with hydrogen-powered...
 

 

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