Public infrastructure projects like schools and universities are well suited to MMC and helping clients to overcome unfounded quality concerns can lead to significant time, efficiency and cost benefits, says James Garner.

Five years after his landmark report ‘Modernise or Die’, which urged construction to embrace new working practices, Mark Farmer assesses the industry’s progress.

A newly formed group of MPs has urged the government to move more quickly to meet carbon reduction targets but scaling up the existing timber sector and employing modern methods of construction (MMC).

Jaimie Johnston was awarded an MBE in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to the construction industry, in recognition of his pioneering work on MMC. He shares his wisdom and love of Charles Eames with CM.

Gary O’Brien argues that modern methods of construction (MMC) will close the skills gap, but clients need to lead the way.

COP26 will showcase the first home built from Scottish-sourced cross-laminated timber, developed by Construction Scotland Innovation Centre.

A three-storey rooftop office extension in the City was delivered with the help of prefabricated faCade panels.

Clients are often cited as the biggest barrier to offsite take-up. So how can they be persuaded of its benefits? Will Mann asked three modular specialists.

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.