17
Mar 2021
The Pandemic has drastically shaped our opinions not just on Healthcare workers
Health support and supply critical to make the world go round. With further tremendous insult to our NHS by the government's offer to increase wages 1% timber has increased cost up to 180% worldwide. Something is clearly wrong. The USA in a position to pay far more for timber leaving the UK to pick up the scraps.
08
Feb 2021
Create communities not barriers!
Hat's off to our UK government and NHS teams for achieving such high level success with 12 million vaccinations which is 16% of our population. It just goes to show what we as a nation are capable of achieving, a record breaking target achieved higher 'per population per head' than any other country in Europe! Amazing news.
04
Jan 2021
20 TWENTY 'ONE VISION' IN THE 21ST CENTURY
We seem to be turning over several new pages in certain exciting aspects, with Brexit and the very encouraging news about potential vaccines for our worldwide pandemic. The UK is the first country to roll out a nationwide vaccination programme, as at Christmas around 800,000 vulnerable people already as our PM Boris proudly confirmed - which is of course commendable. Brexit gives us the tremendous opportunity to invest in our manufacturing, to invest in our agriculture and to invest in our infrastructure, in order to help make us more self-sufficient and we simply must of course invest in our construction industry. Historically the UK are renowned internationally for engineering expertise (goings back 100's of years of course) and more recently such triumphs as the tunnelling of Crossrail under invaluable heritage sites as well as Channel Tunnel, HS2, and the new super-sewer being built under the River Thames - a 25km tunnel under London’s river that will prevent millions of tonnes of pollution that currently pollute the river every year.
01
Dec 2020
How to get the best out of your relationship with Modular Manufacturers, or not
Something I have been meaning to put together for a while despite a daily bombardment of blogs sharing our passion for Off-Site Manufacturing which one a month features on our website.
01
Nov 2020
Covid shapes new opportunity in the form of Modular
When Adversity appears Opportunity knocks - that's life. The leisure industry amongst others has taken a real hammering since the pandemic, for obvious reasons. However, lately the take up of Staycation has increased rapidly with holiday makers opting to travel local within 1-2 hours close to home.
01
Oct 2020
Excuses running thin not to embrace MMC
During the past few years the UK has heard every excuse in the book by some not to adopt Modern Methods of Construction. Partly a result of distinct lack of education, training and investment with only 8% of UK housing built using MMC.
01
Sep 2020
The positives of a drastic Pandemic - there is light at the end of the tunnel
There is a unique opportunity to solve our housing crisis only via adversity it seems, an acute focus by UK government, in words at least, to build our way out of recession but only with significant investment from outside.
24
Aug 2020
RICS add value for delivering better quality, safer, & far more cost-effective homes
A most thought provoking article by RICS which emphasis the need for definitive action by our government to help solve our Housing Crisis.