AIMCH: How Digital And Offsite Construction Can Transform Housebuilding
Advanced Industrialised Methods for the Construction of Homes (AIMCH) is a pioneering project that puts collaboration, digital working and large-scale offsite manufacturing at the heart of tackling the housing crisis. Stewart Dalgarno, director...
Government urged by MPs to âact fastâ with offsite construction
A panel of MPs has urged ministers to 'act fast' to create the conditions for a new style of prefabricated housebuilding if they want to stand any chance of meeting its ambitious targets. The Housing, Communities and Local ...
Climate protection capacity from the forest
Why prefabricated wooden houses are good for the environmentHeat records. "Fridays for Future. Cities calling for climate emergency. Political election and survey results that underline: The topic of climate protection has never been more present in the public. Products and solutions that can reduce CO...
Discover and experience modern prefabricated houses:
"Day of the Sample Houses" on September 21 and 22, 2019This year, the "Day of the Sample Houses" will take place on Saturday and Sunday, September 21 and 22, 2019. For an entire weekend, the Bundesverband Deutscher Fertigbau (BDF - Federal Association of German Prefabricated Construction) offers th...
Prefabricated building industry demands fair property tax for owner-occupiers
Benefit home ownership and mobilising building landAround 100,000 single-family homes are built in Germany each year and are mostly occupied by the owners themselves. The Bundesverband Deutscher Fertigbau (Federal Association of German Prefabricated Construction BDF) demands a fair land tax i...
Revealing designs for the worldâs tallest hybrid timber tower
A Vancouver (British Columbia) developer has proposed a mass timber, Passive House skyscraper that could be the worlds tallest wood tower. Delta Land Corporation is working with architect Peter Busby from Perkins + Will to design...
Six reasons why timber frame is surging in the UK
In the mid-1980s, negative press about quality control for timber frame housing caused a healthy market to slump from around 40% to less than 10% in a single year. It was slow to rebuild but recent years have seen a marked resurgence in the use of...
Prefabricated wooden houses are on record course in 2019
Finished construction ratio exceeds 20 percent mark for the first time in the 1st quarterFor the first time, the proportion of prefabricated houses in a quarter now exceeded 20 percent: from January to March 2019, 20.9 percent of building permits for one- and two-family houses in Germany were for an industrially prefabricated house fr...
Timber companies fear for supplies: âNeue Holzbau AGâ calls alarm
Actually, much more wood could be cut down in Switzerland. But the development is going in a different direction. Companies like the Neue Holzbau AG in Lungern are worried about supplies. The Swiss forest has already seen better...
An individual dream house from the factory
Industrial prefabrication gives prefabricated houses an advantage of qualityAccurate to the millimeter, computer-controlled and weather-independent - these are just three of the many trademarks of industrial production that are expected in the automotive and electrical industries. But also houses are increasingly being...