Mayor of London and Bryden Wood upgrade modular housing design app

The government agency will require bidders for its £7.4bn pot for affordable housing supply in the next five years to use modern methods of construction such as off-site manufacturing.

According to the latest Savills July 2020 Big Shed report, areas of the UK are looking at a potential serious shortage of warehouse and shed storage.

The Luxembourg-based construction tech company, which uses naturally reinforced timber to create sustainable buildings, has hired ex-BlackBerry and Tesla executive Margareta Sailer as chief people officer.

The developer’s modular division has worked with visual agency Uniform to allow people to design their future home online to their own specification.

The current pandemic certainly isn’t helping with the UK’s housing shortage. Housebuilders may be going back on site but do we need to move away from the more traditional methods of construction if we are going to have any chance of meeting the country’s housebuilding targets, asks Caroline Hanratty.

LandTech has analysed the Government's newly released housing supply data to give property professionals and the public deeper insight into what these figures mean for the UK's housing market.

From a broken home and being homeless to founding a startup that raises £19m from the Reuben brothers, modular housebuilder Joseph Daniels breaks the mould for getting into property. And he’s still only 27. Adam Branson meets him.

In 1966, architect Cedric Price exclaimed: “Technology is the answer, but what was the question?”, a quote very much relevant in 2019 as the built environment begins to embrace tech, according to Lauren Poon, head of digital at CallisonRTKL.