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el8 - R&D tax relief services

Buildoffsite works exclusively with el8 who provide a range of services to meet their client's needs, whether they are SMEs or large corporate organisations with global operations...

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McAvoy - Providing modular construction solutions for 40 years

McAvoy Grouyp is celebrating 40 years in business, and to mark this momentous occasion Plumbing and Heating magaizne has produced a celebratory group profile, looking back over the past 40 years of the company's fascincating story and its rise to success...

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Buildoffsite Newsletter March 2013

2013 has got off to a busy start for Buildoffsite with many important activities, engagements and collaborations either already delivered or underway.

Several new members have joined us, which is great news and I am confident that during the course of the year some significant additional names will join us.

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Launch of BOPAS – 26 March 2013

The Buildoffsite Property Assurance Scheme (BOPAS) is being formally launched on 26 March 2013. The Scheme is new to the market and provides manufacturers and constructors of new homes and their developer and other clients and stakeholders with the means to have products and buildings independently verified regarding fitness to support long term loans.

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Butler & Young CDM training course dates announced for 2013

Butler & Young have confirmed new dates for their APS accredited course on the Management of CDM Co-ordination. The course explains the CDM Regulations and has been approved by the Association for Project Safety (APS) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). This course is aimed at all those involved in construction, the construction process, designers and/or facility and premises managers.

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Business opportunities: international high value construction projects

Although the UK and wider EU construction markets are struggling the international market place is awash with commerical opportunities.

United Kingdom Trade and Investment (UKTI) has compiled a listing of the top 50 international projects which Government regards as offering particular opportunities for UK business. Not surprisingly the majority of these building and infrastructure projects are taking place within the emerging markets in South America, the Middle East and Asia.

For more information on particular projects enquirers should contact the identified UKTI business specialist.

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Is offsite sustainable?

Alistair Gibb, Professor of Construction Engineering Management at Loughborough University, discusses the subject of offsite in a paper.

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Welding Certification

Buildoffsite Member Lloyd’s Register in collaboration with NDT Services Ltd has developed a one stop fixed fee weld certification service. The new service will offer clients a fixed cost for the entire weld certification process.

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Buildoffsite Newsletter December 2012

One of our ambitions within Buildoffsite is to establish positive, sustained and mutually beneficial relationships with the construction industry’s professional bodies. We recognise and support their role including that of maintaining standards within the professions and in providing CPD to ensure skills levels reflect technical and other developments taking place within the industry. Buildoffsite is a small and very lean organisation and as you know our model requires us to stay that way to minimise cost and bureaucracy. That said we aim to be in a position to punch well above our weight and to do that we need to reach out and collaborate with others. In seeking to promote improved awareness of the benefits of offsite construction methods within such a huge and diverse industry we have a particular need to work with and through the professional bodies that have extensive regional, national and indeed international reach.

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Buildoffsite Review 2012

It's that time of the year when we compile and publish the Buildoffsite Yearbook. Many of those who read this Newsletter may not be aware of this as copies are generally circulated only to our Members.

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Factoryshare.org goes live

Factoryshare.org is an initiative that seeks to make use of the downtime and/or unused space (the cost of which is otherwise paid for as part of the factory overhead) through a number of possible scenarios:

  1. By providing manufacturing space for start up companies wishing to enter the offsite market. These underutilised areas could be sectioned off and rented to people thus saving them the cost of buying, building and developing a new location. It could test the viability of the product without high capital cost.
  2. By enabling existing products to be delivered from a range of participating facilities, allowing small operations to upscale their offer or products to be manufactured closer to their point of deployment (with reduce transport time and cost).
  3. By enabling participating facilities to combine and trade capacity to drive down the cost of off-site solutions and move this further into the mainstream of construction delivery.

For further information please see www.factoryshare.org

 

Acermetric show house erection live

Watch the show house being built live at: http://acermetric.co.uk/cam

Tekla UK Model competition

Tekla recently held their annual model competition attracting entries of all size and shapes and using many different construction materials. Once again the entries showcased the skills of its customers in terms of their use of the Tekla software but also highlighted their skills as companies involved in the construction process.

The competition is open to all customers and entries were received from one-man bands up to the largest multi-national companies employing thousands.

The entries can be seen at: www.tekla.com/uk/Documents/model-comp-2011/entries.html

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Transforming construction by adopting a Lean Thinking approach

Lean symbolises creating more value for customers with fewer resources. CIRIA recently launched Build Lean: transforming construction using Lean Thinking (C696) written in the form of a novel. This innovative guide introduces Steve, a senior leader in a construction business, as he receives news of another failed tender. He licks his wounds and goes on to compare two projects, one which out-performed the other, as a result of using the Lean Thinking approach.

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Lean project management: getting involved

A special offer in collaboration with Construction Skills, Buildoffsite and Lean Thinking Ltd to facilitate the implementation of a unique Lean project management system to radically improve performance.

This is an invitation to all sectors of the construction industry to take up the offer of facilitated implementation of lean project management systems on their projects with a money back guarantee. This system applies to every stage of the project including pre-construction and design.

Those who have attended recent Buildoffsite Stakeholder events will be aware that several featured construction projects have benefited from the application of Lean project management services provided by Lean Thinking Ltd to increase client value, project performance, profitability and sustainability. The application of Lean project management has stimulated the increased take up of offsite construction solutions to ensure certainty of project programme, project cost and project quality. Clients involved have included the Ministry of Justice and Marks & Spencer. Main contractors have included Interserve and ISG.

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How can you improve the whole life value
of your next building project

According to the National Audit Office report, Improving public services through better construction, there is a distinct lack of clarity as to what best value and whole life costing are, a lack of robust data available on running costs, and lack of tangible benefits to be gained from considering best value and whole life costing.

In response, award-winning off-site specialist Yorkon has published a new technical paper A guide to improving the whole life value of a building.

To download a copy of the new report go to: www.yorkon.info/industryreports

or email: contact@yorkon.co.uk

 

Building energy reduction: a leadership opportunity

Carbon is invisible, out of sight and largely out of mind. Buildings represent the single largest cause of carbon release but this is poorly understood, and it is hard to differentiate between good and bad performers. This problem was overcome in the white goods market by making energy performance visible via the familiar energy label, which has successfully driven the development of greener products.

The property market needs stronger incentives to enable landlords both to build better new buildings and especially to refurbish existing buildings to higher energy standards.

If non domestic buildings displayed their DEC performance prominently in circulation areas (especially receptions), this would:

  1. Raise the awareness of users to their building's energy performance.

  2. Drive tenants to require higher performance from future premises.

  3. Raise the value of better performing buildings.

  4. Properly reward landlords who construct/refurbish buildings to high energy
    standards.

The Government is reluctant to regulate the market, however the prominent display of DECs will encourage the right behaviour.

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Howick News

H400 Truss System

Howick's H400 Truss machine produces easy to assemble and use Trusses using our patented Rivet system that is equivalent to six traditional screws.

Speedfloor makes concrete floors easy

Sppedfloor, which is more commonly seen in commercial and car parking structures, has been developed to work seamlessly with Howick's framing machines to allow concrete floors to easily be incorporated into light guage steel framing.

H300 Mobile Factory

Howick's H300 framing machine can be installed in a 20ft mobile factory unit. Making it easier to transport than the lager 40ft model.

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Howick Steel Framing Innovation Conference registration of interest....

Howick Ltd will be hosting a Steel Framing Innovation Conference in Auckland, New Zealand from the 20 - 24th September 2010.

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Halving Waste to Landfill - signatory update

WRAP is eager to work with you to develop case studies, articles and PR to highlight projects that are demonstrating a commitment to waste reduction and benefitting from cost savings. If you would like to be involved, contact: halvingwastetolandfill@wrap.org.uk  

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LEAF International
The Leading European Architects Forum, or LEAF, brings together leading international architectural practices and designers operating in Europe and beyond to share knowledge, to network and to develop new partnerships.

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Howick offer factory machine demo

Discovering Offsite Howick

A small but enthusiastic group attended Henrob's manufacturing plant in Deeside where Howick in conjunction with Henrob and Vertex presented an end to end solution for steel frame design and assembly.

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Two free downloads

A guide to modern methods of construction (a BRE/NHBC publication)
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Your guide to specifying Modular Buildings: maximising value and minimising risk
(a Buildoffsite publication in partnership with BAA)
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New offsite technology talks

Advantage Offsite, in collaboration with Mtech Group, have launched a new series of dedicated Technical Talk seminars for 2008.

Each focusing on a range of different offsite technologies, including; volumetric modular, pods, light steel frame, timber frame, precast concrete, ICF, SIPS, and pre-engineered M&E services, Technical Talk will be the most dynamic and informative offsite technology events of the year.

Technical Talk seminars will allow delegates to understand the various different technologies within the offsite construction sector in much more detail than the generic offsite construction events that the industry has presented to date.

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Buildoffsite forms alliance with new Scottish Construction Centre

Buildoffsite has formed an alliance with the recently-opened Scottish Construction Centre (SCC) to help promote greater uptake of offsite methods in Scottish construction sector.

The SCC has identified "offsite" as a key theme area for Scotland and is planning an initial series of industry workshops to explore the strength of interest in a programme of work to help companies understand how they may gain from increased adoption of offsite construction techniques.

Funded by Scottish Enterprise and developed by a CIRIA-led consortium, The SCC has been created to promote innovation and excellence in Scotland's construction industry.

To find out more, visit www.scocon.org.

 

Standard Specifications, Layouts and Dimensions for School Buildings

Free downloads available

A series of guidance notes have been released that set out the standards of performance for a range of elements in schools and show how these standards might be delivered through design examples.

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Building the Future: A guide to regeneration and modern methods of construction

MediaPlanet, in association with buildoffsite produced a supplement for circulation with The Times on 27 July 2007, which includes contributions from a number of buildoffsite members, including: Corus, Bailey Offsite, Britspace, Terrapin, Caledonian Building Systems Limited and Framing Solutions
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Buildoffsite Registration Scheme launched

The Buildoffsite Registration Scheme (developed by Lloyd’s Register) has been launched to enable organisation's to gain accreditation for achieving best practice in the safe and competent delivery of offsite services
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Download presentations from buildoffsite seminar

Presentations from the Buildoffsite Seminar: Offsite construction methods - quality construction solutions for the health sector, 4 October 2006, Leeds Amouries are now available to download
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Off-site industry
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5 November 2012 Issue

  • Portakabin hands over the first complete primary school in England to be built using modular construction
    New design and manufacturing processes for the revolutionary Yorkon off-site building system
  • AKW Group invests in a recycled modular building from Foremans for its new headquarters

  • Transport, warehousing, freight forwarding and contract packing specialist, AKW Group Plc, has invested in a new purpose-designed headquarters building from Foremans Relocatable Building Systems.

  • AVEVA Group plc at the Modular and Off-site Construction Summit 2012 "Smart digital design for industrial construction"

  • Thru-Wall delivers stunning results

  • Prater delivers hospital project

  • Revolutionary off-site building system unveiled

  • Offsite fabrication helps ensure timely academy delivery

  • UK building to be built entirely from waste

  • How investment in urban innovation is changing the face of China's cities

  • The November Buildoffsite Newsletter is now available to download

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