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Navigating tricky trade-offs

Kate Henderson, Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation, reflects on the current balancing act around safety, sustainability and supply and the part MMC can play Housing associations have always had to make difficult decisions about where and how to invest in their communities. But in today’s economic climate, the

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Andrew Yuill

Learning lessons from abroad to drive up use of MMC

Social housing developers in the UK are struggling to normalise the use of MMC in development and they should look at what’s happening in Asia and across Europe for inspiration, argues Andrew Yuill My background isn’t just housing, I’m an accountant by trade, so when I joined Flagship Group, I had

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Greener, better, faster

Steve Cole, director of Make UK Modular – the trade body for volumetric manufacturers – lays out a strong case for the government to invest in MMC delivery. Well, that was a busy few weeks. At Make UK Modular, the voice of the modular housing industry, if we’ve learned one

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Building Better can increase collective negotiation power

Lessons a year on from the launch of our manufacturer framework

This blog post shares what we’ve learnt in the thirteen months since the launch of our Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) Category 1 volumetric framework. A year ago, we launched a procurement route we believed would plug the hole needed for housing associations and local authorities to begin scaling their

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