Joey Gardiner – Housing Today BRE to administer competitionThe government has launched a competition to for architects and housing providers to design homes of the future fit to tackle the problems of clean growth and an ageing society.Grand ChallengesThe Homes of 2030 competition is a joint initiative between the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local […]
Archives for November 2019
Is MMC “a Blight” on Communities?
Housing Today Senior housing architects hit out at government driveWriting in Housing Today, Luke O’Donovan reports that at a recent debate on the quality of new homes, architect Paul Karakusevic, of Karakusevic Carson Architects, described most volumetric modular homes – ones that are fully constructed offsite – as a “blight” on their locations. Similarly, Cany […]
How to manage email overload
ARUP Information OverloadWriting in BIM+, Jacob Wardrop, director at 28Hands, part of the Arup Group, explains that despite the growth and prominence of mobile messengers and chat apps, email remains an integral part of daily work life. However, its abundant use has created an overload of information, leaving many businesses struggling to keep up […]
Government Funds Japanese Pre-Fab Builder in UK
UK market attacked with Taxpayers money £30m from Home Building FundBack in May Construction Index carried an article confirming that Sekisui House has set up in the UK with £22m of its own money and £30m from the government’s Home Building Fund, administered through Homes England. […]
