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UK Construction Week opens with big splash on sustainability

|Date: 6 October, 2021

UK Construction Week opens with big splash on sustainability

UK Construction Week opens its doors, welcoming thousands of determined buyers and built environment prof ...

UK Construction Week opens its doors, welcoming thousands of determined buyers and built environment professionals catching up on two years of innovation, policy advances and new product development. ...

6 October, 2021
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Wates and the Department for Education begin work on first net zero schools

|Date: 27 September, 2021

Wates and the Department for Education begin work on first net zero schools

Wates and the Department for Education (DfE) have announced that work has begun on building some of the U ...

Wates and the Department for Education (DfE) have announced that work has begun on building some of the UK’s first net zero schools. Lytham St Annes High School, Littleborough Community Primary School ...

27 September, 2021
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Vistry Partnerships secures Homes England Strategic Partnership status

|Date: 6 September, 2021

Vistry Partnerships secures Homes England Strategic Partnership status

Leading partnerships & regeneration business Vistry Partnerships has been selected as one of Homes En ...

Leading partnerships & regeneration business Vistry Partnerships has been selected as one of Homes England’s Strategic Partners, securing a five-year programme of grant funding totalling £83m that ...

6 September, 2021
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Faithful+Gould appointed to the largest modular housing scheme in the North of England

|Date: 1 September, 2021

Faithful+Gould appointed to the largest modular housing scheme in the North of England

Faithful+Gould — a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group — has been appointed by Canvas Homes and Beyond Housin ...

Faithful+Gould — a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group — has been appointed by Canvas Homes and Beyond Housing to help deliver a 117-unit modular housing development in Stockton-on-Tees, which on completi ...

1 September, 2021
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Welsh Government bans fossil fuel boilers in new social housing

|Date: 19 August, 2021

Welsh Government bans fossil fuel boilers in new social housing

The Welsh Government has committed to renewable energy and cutting edge technologies in its new-build sta ...

The Welsh Government has committed to renewable energy and cutting edge technologies in its new-build standards and banned fossil fuel boilers in new social housing from the 1st October. The Welsh Dev ...

19 August, 2021
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Canvas and Beyond Housing to create 117 eco-friendly family homes in Stockton-on-Tees

|Date: 19 August, 2021

Canvas and Beyond Housing to create 117 eco-friendly family homes in Stockton-on-Tees

Beyond Housing is investing £19.5m into a new housing development of 117 family-ready and eco-friendly ho ...

Beyond Housing is investing £19.5m into a new housing development of 117 family-ready and eco-friendly homes in Stockton-on-Tees. The housing association, in partnership with Canvas Homes, is construc ...

19 August, 2021
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MMC and net zero on the agenda for LHC at Housing 2021

|Date: 12 August, 2021

MMC and net zero on the agenda for LHC at Housing 2021

Public sector housing teams will be able to hear about and discuss the challenges of and opportunities av ...

Public sector housing teams will be able to hear about and discuss the challenges of and opportunities available in MMC, retrofit and the net zero agenda, as experts from procurement specialist LHC ap ...

12 August, 2021
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MMC key to future proofing supply chain certainty

|Date: 10 August, 2021

MMC key to future proofing supply chain certainty

Materials and supply was the subject of The Housing Forum's second webinar in its MMC series, held on the ...

Materials and supply was the subject of The Housing Forum's second webinar in its MMC series, held on the 28th July. Given the current challenges surrounding construction skills and the supply of buil ...

10 August, 2021
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Offsite Insights | Modular solutions for healthcare

|Date: 6 August, 2021

Offsite Insights | Modular solutions for healthcare

David Hartley, Managing Director of MTX Contracts, discusses the recent updates and priorities aligned to ...

David Hartley, Managing Director of MTX Contracts, discusses the recent updates and priorities aligned to offsite construction in the healthcare sector. The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a particular li ...

6 August, 2021
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Production underway at new modular housebuilding factory

|Date: 3 August, 2021

Production underway at new modular housebuilding factory

One of the UK’s newest modular housebuilders has officially opened its first manufacturing site in North ...

One of the UK’s newest modular housebuilders has officially opened its first manufacturing site in North East England. The official launch of the 20,000sq ft CoreHaus factory in County Durham (on 30th ...

3 August, 2021
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