Category: Technical
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Home help with light-gauge steelwork
Wavensmere Homes’ Nightingale Quarter in Derby features light-gauge steel framing A new light-gauge steel specification offers help for housebuilders looking to accelerate delivery. By Nick Barrett. Modern methods of construction (MMC) will be invaluable in tackling the UK’s housing shortages, and light-gauge steel will have a key role to play. Pioneers of MMC have of…
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How Mace built Landsec’s low-carbon hybrid
A hybrid steel and CLT solution, combined with a retained 1950s structure, helped cut construction-related CO2 on a Landsec scheme where Mace is main contractor. Martin Cooper reports from Southwark Targeting the highest sustainability ratings, a Landsec commercial scheme in Southwark, south London, provides an exemplary model of design, setting an industry-wide precedent for the…