New Homes in New Ways
Our Head of Business Development, Dan Gallagher, recently joined Elaine Toogood, Director, Architecture and Sustainable Design at The Concrete Centre, to explore progressive solutions to housing. The discussion, hosted by The Building Centre in partnership with the Housing Festival and The Concrete Centre, examined innovative design, construction, and manufacturing methods for new homes.
Key topics included concrete’s inherent performance qualities and ongoing efforts to reduce its embodied carbon—such as improved mix designs, the use of alternative cements and aggregates, and even 3D printing—helping drive the industry toward Net Zero by 2050.
You can watch the 45-minute webinar here: https://tinyurl.com/mwbm8ec7
A Systemised Solution to Housing
PCE’s hyTower® build system brings added value, speed, safety, and predictability to the housing sector by utilising Modern Methods of Construction and offsite manufacturing.
With offsite integration of MEP, windows, balconies and façades, to proven performance across thermal, acoustic, vibration, air tightness, and fire resistance, this RIBA DfMA aligned build solution delivers certainty across cost, programme, and quality.
From high-rise apartments to NHBC warranted accommodation, hyTower® showcases the benefits Modern Methods of Construction can bring to the betterment of housing solutions across the UK:
Performance and Quality – with inherent high performance and assured quality, homes are built to last with components crafted offsite using modern manufacturing robotics and automation
Speed and Safety – the DfMA philosophy and offsite approach reduces build times as well as site activity, helping de-risk construction and deliver homes faster
Sustainability – in addition to decarbonising initiatives, offsite construction significantly reduces waste, site deliveries, and local disruption, enabling more environmentally and socially friendly construction
Flexibility and Configuration – designed in such a way to provide both variety in internal layouts, but also to accommodate future change, enabling retainment, conversion, and retrofit of structures
Collaboration – Cooperation – Change
By taking ownership for positive change and a more sustainable future, the built environment can work together to drive better change, faster. By exploring new ways to not only build, but design and manufacture homes to higher standards of quality, sustainability, and longevity, we can find better solutions to tackle the housing crisis, whilst aligning to Net Zero 2050 aspirations.
