Buyers of factory-built homes face a reduced choice of lenders and unfavourable conditions – which is why we urgently need an industrywide MMC standard, argues Ian Atkinson.

Housebuilder Barratt is to accelerate its use of modern methods of construction (MMC) to 30% of completions by 2025.

Significant barriers remain to MMC viability. Here we examine those barriers and explain why incentives could be the answer to accelerating its use.

Dave Stitt looks at five key takeaways from the government’s new public procurement guide In December 2020 the government published the Construction Playbook, its new guide on procuring public works.…

A research project examining 1,800 homes built using modern methods of construction (MMC) will focus on 16 key themes including cost and pace of build, safety performance and levels of wastage.