Buildoffsite member profiles

Accio

Accio Group has consistently proven itself to be one of Europe’s leading suppliers of temporary structure solutions to the corporate and private markets. The company’s dedicated team of highly trained professionals offer expert project management and can provide a range of solutions to meet individual client’s needs.

Specialising in delivering world-leading temporary structures, Accio Group is renowned for its ability to deliver projects on time and on budget. The company has worked with many high profile clients including Emap, HSBC, Land Rover, Nissan, RBS, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Thomas Cook, Toyota and UKTV. Accio Group’s impressive experience encompasses installing and maintaining temporary retail space, accommodation, cafés, classrooms, disaster relief, emergency facilities for banks and businesses, emergency medical facilities, support facilities and weather protection.

In addition, Accio Group also supply the vital ancillary services required to complete a project, including air conditioning, CCTV, facilities management, lighting, power distribution, refrigeration units and sanitation. The company is a progressive organisation dedicated to changing traditional build thought processes and its technical expertise is second-to-none. Accio Group has been at the forefront of embracing new technologies in the projects it has been tasked to deliver and the company’s expert project managers are experienced in developing a range of solutions.

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Stephen Casey

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AcerMetric Limited are an Engineering Design and Intellectual Property Company who have created ‘The AcerMetric Versatile Flat Pack Frameless Building System’ which enables a significant range of accommodation to be built using one simple hand tool, quickly and economically.

The unique build offsite manufacture enables an almost infinite style and size of sustainable energy-efficient housing to be constructed, creating quality buildings at an affordable price.

The versatility of the system covers a broad spectrum of the construction market and can therefore be sub-divided into many different business models ranging from a significant number of accommodation sectors for various industries through to bespoke architecturally designed houses and multi-storey apartments.

An initial three bedroom five person UK demonstration house has been constructed. Commercialisation of The AcerMetric System via manufacturing, installation and sales licences worldwide is now underway.

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David Appleford

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Aquatherm Sales UK is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Ormandy Group of Companies and is the UK’s provider of the Aquatherm GmbH range of products within the UK and Ireland.
Thirty five years of constant product development has seen Aquatherm maintain the leading market position for producing the most advanced and environmentally innovate plastic piping systems for the building services, process industries and OEM’s. The range consists of

Aquatherm pressure Piping Systems, Underfloor Heating solutions, Fire Sprinkler System, ‘Fire Stop’ and our exclusive Wall/Ceiling Heating and chilled water system ‘Climasystem’, providing a highly efficient low energy thermal barrier to every kind of building.

Aquatherms’ Polypropylene Piping System is considered to be the most environmentally friendly on the market and has been endorsed by Greenpeace in Germany as an innovate product of the future. Polypropylene is a chemically inert material, creating minimal pollutants and takes less energy to produce, install and run then traditional materials, it is also fully recyclable.

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Tel: 01444 250500
Email sales@aquatherm-uk.com

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Anglian Water/@one Alliance

The @one Alliance is a collaborative organisation, constituted in October 2004. It was formed to deliver the
large part of Anglian Water’s AMP4 investment programme, covering approximately £750M of work.

It comprises 7 separate groups:

• Anglian Water Engineering
• Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions
• Barhale
• Biwater
• Black & Veatch
• Grontmij
• Skanska-Aker Kvaerner

With a collective capability that spans all aspects of design and construction of water and wastewater assets, the Alliance is focussed on delivering a lean capital programme.

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Mark Enzer

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Armstrong

Established in May 2004, Armstrong Integrated Systems Limited (formerly Plant Energy Systems Limited, Est. 1978), is an industry leader in the manufacture of plantrooms.

The Armstrong Integrated Systems commitment to pre-assembly and off-site manufacture brings many benefits to the construction process. Some of these benefits are: improved speed of construction, improved quality, reduced
costs and environment impact, improved health and safety, improved co-ordination, security and labour-savings

When we manufacture a plantroom offsite, we take responsibility for all the uncertainty in a project. Our 3-stage build process ensures we deliver a completed plant room on time. We have extensive experience in manufacturing plantrooms, and are familiar with all of the lead times and process times involved. Our customers receive the benefit of this experience because Armstrong Integrated Systems guarantees on-time delivery.

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Steve Cooper

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Arup

Arup is a global firm of designers, engineers, planners and business consultants providing a diverse range of professional services to clients around the world.

Our innovative and fully-integrated approach brings our full complement of skills and knowledge to bear on any given design problem. We exert a significant influence on the built environment and are the creative force behind many of the world’s most innovative and sustainable designs.

Our firm has almost 9000 staff working in 86 offices in more than 37 countries. At any one time, we have over 10 000 projects running concurrently.

Arup has three main global business areas – buildings, infrastructure and consulting – although our multi-disciplinary approach means that any given project may involve people from any or all of the sectors or regions in which we operate. Our fundamental aim is to bring together the best professionals in the world to meet our clients' needs.

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John Miles

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BAA

BAA has an ambitious £6.6billion investment plan to transform its airports.

Over the next 5 years £4bn will be spent at Heathrow alone to completely renovate and rebuild the airport's facilities and enhance the passenger experience.

Our biggest investments at Heathrow include:

• Exciting plans for a new £1billion Terminal 2 at Heathrow to become the new home for Star Alliance airlines providing an estimated 20 million passengers every year with a spacious and modern airport facility.
• A £1bn investment programme to upgrade baggage infrastructure at Heathrow to deliver every bag, with every customer, every time. This includes a £300m baggage tunnel to connect Heathrow's five terminals, capable of processing 3,000 bags an hour - equivalent to 110m bags a year.
• Extensive refurbishments of Terminals 1, 3 and 4.

BAA is also investing £2.6bn at our other airports by 2013, including:

• £500m at Stansted on the upgrade of the terminal and building a new pier
• £874m at Gatwick on the North Terminal extension and refurbishment and South Terminal upgrade.
• £24m at Southampton on an upgrade to the terminal, retail, commercial and car park facilities.
• In Scotland, we'll be spending £100m at Glasgow on a terminal
  extension, new aircraft stands and pier plus taxiway strengthening.
  Aberdeen airport will get a £50m terminal extension, runway resurfacing, new car park and aircraft stand rebuild. Meanwhile, Edinburgh airport will see a £150m terminal extension, new aircraft stands, runway resurfacing and improved commercial facilities.

BAA is committed to developing its airports responsibly. That's why BAA has sought to lead the industry in the use of sustainable construction materials. Heating, cooling and powering airport terminals all require energy that contributes to carbon dioxide emissions, so BAA is working hard to reduce energy use in buildings by 30% by 2020. Our unique demands also mean that the build offsite process is beneficial in order to minimise disruption both to safe airport operations and nearby local communities.

Passengers and airlines are already taking advantage of the benefits of BAA's £6bn capital programme over its seven airports. With improved check in facilities, more space for security and bright and modern facilities BAA is working hard to making every journey better.

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Nigel Fraser

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BAU-HOW

BAU-HOW is a construction company that combines solid building and construction insight with logistics and industrial principles. Our industrialized production technique enables us to produce cost efficient buildings with a superior technical standard, the highest degree of energy efficiency and with much shorter construction periods. The flexible BAU-HOW building system offers freedom in design as it is the construction process that we have standardized, not the buildings.

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Jan Aarso Nielsen

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B&Q

B&Q is the number one Home Improvement Retailer in the UK and is part of Kingfisher Group which is the third largest in the world. Kingfisher trades under the B&Q brand in the Far East where it has over 60 stores including B&Q Beijing which is now their largest store.

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David Childs

Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR)

Our mission is building a dynamic and competitive UK economy by: creating the conditions for business success; promoting innovation, enterprise and science; and giving everyone the skills and opportunities to succeed. To achieve this we will foster world-class universities and promote an open global economy.

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Barry Blackwell

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BRE

BRE is a world leading research and consultancy group delivering sustainability and innovation across the built environment and beyond.

BRE’s mission is ‘Building A Better World’ and we are an organisation that enables innovation, raises standards and drives best practice.

Operating from locations throughout the United Kingdom we have a presence throughout the world.

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Oliver Novakovic
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British Precast

The British Precast Concrete Federation (BPCF) is the trade association of precast concrete manufacturers in the UK.

We are passionate advocates of sustainable and safe practice in the design and use of concrete products. We have twelve product groups represented by the Federation ranging from small modular products such as roof tiles, blocks and paving to large customised structural units.

Members interests are continually developed through our team of dedicated professionals who have extensive connections with organisations in the UK and worldwide. Four awards schemes are run annually for projects, sustainability, health & safety and innovation.

The Federation runs a safety improvement scheme Concrete Targets 2010 with the objective of making the £2.5 billion sector accident-free. Membership is open to both concrete producers and the whole supply chain

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Martin Clarke

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Britspace Modular Buildings Limited

Britspace is an established market leader in the manufacture, delivery and installation of permanent modular buildings.

From secondary schools and prison houseblocks to high-rise apartments and multi-storey hospitals, Britspace is leading the way in off-site manufacture. By producing extremely high quality buildings, which have the structural dependability, appearance and functionality of traditional build, Clients benefit from a guaranteed programme and cost.

Adopting a bespoke design service, Britspace’s unique and flexible approach to modular construction differentiates from other suppliers, ensuring that our Clients need never compromise on the design of a project. Our modules are adapted to suit the building, not the building to suit set module sizes.

Britspace has British Board of Agrément (BBA) accreditation for a 60-year structural design life, which confirms that ours is a permanent building solution.

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David Harris

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BSRIA

BSRIA is unique amongst The Built Environment specialists in providing independent, objective and practical support across the design, construction and occupancy phases of both new build and refurbishment projects.

With specialists able to measure and compare construction performance in all phases of design through operation, BSRIA is well placed to provide factual and authoritative feedback from innovative projects. We can work either openly or in strict confidence with whole teams or individual clients..

BSRIA is happy to partner with any companies in the building services and construction industries but, the 650 plus BSRIA membership, benefit from having a more direct involvement in our innovative solutions together with on-line access to Europe’s leading Building Services Library and Information Centre.

BSRIA is pleased to be associated with Buildoffsite and look forward to providing clients and fellow members with tried and tested services including:

• Consultancy
• On-Site and Laboratory Testing
• Modelling
• Research
• Troubleshooting
• Instrument Hire, Sales and Calibration
• Market Intelligence

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Andrew Eastwell

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Bryden Wood Associates

Bryden Wood Associates was established in 1995 by Mark Bryden and Martin Wood. The practice has a passion for designing and constructing buildings, and pursues an approach which is both pragmatic and idealistic: we use the most appropriate construction techniques for each project, whilst realising schemes of outstanding design and aesthetic merit.

BWA are at the forefront of innovative design for construction and design for manufacture. The practice has an established reputation for designing specialist prefabricated building elements, particularly where there is a cross over between mechanical and electrical services, structure and high quality architectural finishes.

BWA has a diverse portfolio of projects including: housing: from social housing to one-off prestigious homes; industrial: from research and development facilities to factory sheds; commercial: from headquarters buildings to speculative and owner occupied offices, and prefabricated design: from bespoke furniture and bathroom modules to 30-tonne, railway carriage sized, corridor modules for airport terminals.

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Martin Wood

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Buchan Concrete Solutions

Buchan is one of the leading pre-cast concrete solutions providers in the UK part of the Roger Bullivant Group of companies.

Buchan offers “solutions” to both the Civil and Building Construction markets. Recent projects have included; prisons, hotels, schools, student accommodation, apartments and office buildings.

With significant Engineering capability the company is able to participate in value engineering exercises with clients and their design teams from concept to completion to maximise the value for money contribution of a pre-cast concrete solution to the overall project cost.

Buchan can list all the major UK contracting entities as clients and also has extensive experience of working with private investors and their agents who are looking for the most appropriate solution to achieving a return on their investment without compromising quality, safety and associated construction risks.

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Neil Gibbons

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Caledonian Building Systems Limited

Caledonian specialises in the design, manufacture and construction of permanent, multi-storey buildings using off-site modular construction. The company operates as both Principle Contractor and Modular Sub-Contractor, constructing projects with values between £1M and £50M. Caledonian is the largest off-site constructor of permanent buildings in the UK, with a turnover of £148M in 2008.

Established in 1996, Caledonian’s early focus was in the construction of highly secure prison cells for HM Prison Service, where the design and product robustness has been proven in the construction of over 7000 cells. The company’s expertise has progressively been applied to other markets including Ministry of Defence (MoD), Hotel, Residential and Student sectors where the basic robust steel frame design has been adapted to provide an equivalent structure to that of a traditional in situ construction process.

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Dave Turnbull

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CIRIA

CIRIA is a member-based research and information organisation dedicated to improvement in the construction industry.

Our members include representatives from all parts of the supply chains of the modern built environment, covering building and civil engineering as well as transport and utilities infrastructure.

CIRIA’s work is recognised as being independent, objective and authoritative.

Buildoffsite is managed by CIRIA.

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Bill Healy

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Composite is a specialist contractor working throughout mainland UK, delivering unique building solutions for customers in the commercial, retail, transport, education, health, residential, car parking and prison sectors.

We provide a comprehensive service from initial advice and feasibility through to completion.

All projects encompass the benefits of off-site manufacturing, in particular precast concrete, and the expertise gained from designing, constructing and managing projects in-house for over 25 years. We encourage and reward both sound performance and innovation in our approach to design development, construction and Health & Safety.

Our stated values of Respect, Relationships and Results are encouraged in everything we do. They are values which our customers recognise and enable us to provide solutions to meet their specific requirements.

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Vincent James

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The Concrete Society

The activities of The Society's advisory, technical development, professional/business networking, CPD and information services provide the construction industry with a major focal point for information and a proactive forum for debate and action.

We play a vital role in encouraging the best use and development of concrete as a uniquely versatile and competitive material.

The Society works through the cooperation of its members who come from all sectors of the industry to exchange information and experience and to enhance the performance, productivity and quality of concrete as a construction medium. Supported by the technical and administrative staff of The Society, members collaborate to produce and disseminate state-of-the-art reports, recommendations and practical guidance.

The reach of the Concrete Society goes beyond its membership with subscribers to a wide range of products and services in over 80 countries.

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Carol Wood

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ConstructionSkills

ConstructionSkills is a partnership between CITB-ConstructionSkills, the Construction Industry
Council (CIC) and CITB Northern Ireland (NI) and as such covers the whole of the UK industry from craft to the professions, and all of the issues that it collectively faces.

In response to the specific challenges of sustainable development ConstructionSkills has established the Future Skills Unit(FSU) to develop new and innovative solutions for skills training, qualifications, labour forecasting to meet industry needs.

The work of the FSU is focussing on the key areas of:

• Innovation of product and process
• Macro Renewables
• Zero Carbon
• Low carbon
• Industry Change
• Environmental challenges

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Alistair Collin

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Corus

Corus provides off-site solutions across a range of construction markets in the military, education, health, residential and commercial building sectors. Extensive technical resources enable Corus to provide creative and practical solutions for almost any project. Corus is an established partner in meeting the needs of construction customers, utilising our expertise in design and manufacturing to deliver maximum performance, coupled with aesthetic appeal demanded by design and construction professionals.

Corus is Europe's second largest steel producer with annual revenues of around £12 billion and a crude steel production of about 20 million tonnes, primarily in the UK and the Netherlands. Corus is a subsidiary of Tata Steel, the world's sixth largest steel producer. With a combined presence in nearly 50 countries, the Tata Steel Group including Corus, has approximately 82,000 employees across five continents and a crude steel production capacity of over 28 million tonnes.

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Peter Baldwin

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Construction Products Association

The Construction Products Association was established in 2000 as an umbrella body to represent manufacturers and suppliers of construction products. Its membership consists of 85% by value, of all manufacturers and suppliers of construction products in the UK, including the largest companies in the industry, as well as the 43 trade associations. Collectively, the industry has an output of more than £40 billion, it produces 20% of goods manufactured in the UK and accounts for 4% of Britain’s GDP.

The Association focuses its attention on four key priority areas - Increasing investment in the built environment, encouraging government to create a supportive business environment that will help companies be more competitive and profitable, improving industry performance and delivering sustainable construction. The Association also provides members with detailed economic information as well as technical and regulatory information about issues that impact upon the industry.

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Michael Ankers

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CHt offsite

Based in the West Midlands, CHt Offsite provides the capabilities to meet increased demands and fast track programmes. Modularisation techniques divide complex elements into manageable modules, leading to a dependable financial control, as well as ensuring a safer, more productive site with less congestion between trades.

CHt offsite pioneered the use of offsite manufacturing over 15 years ago and since then have invested heavily in new & innovative manufacturing techniques. Now as part of the Laing O’Rourke group, CHt offsite are introducing new efficiencies in production, improving health & safety in the workplace and reducing the groups overall environmental impact.

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Steve Hough

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Danish Technological Institute

Danish Technological Institute occupies a crucial position at the point where research, business, and the community converge. The Institute’s mission is to promote growth by improving interaction and encourage synergy between these areas.

The Institute was founded as an independent institution in 1906 and is one of the oldest of its type in the world. The Institute now has 850 employees, making it one of the world’s largest private institutes to supply approved technological services such as consultancy, tests, certification and training for companies and public-sector organisations. Danish Technological Institute is an independent, not-for-profit institution approved by the Danish authorities to provide technological services to business and the community.

The Institute employs experts in hundreds of different fields at 34 centres organised under the auspices of the 5 organisational units that define the main parameters for their work:

• Building Technology
• Industry and Energy
• Business Development
• Materials
• Productivity and Logistics

Centre for New Industrialisation (off site and on site construction) is placed in the Building Technology unit and has a leading role in the work with the industrial development of the building industry. The Centre offers courses and consultancy in project management, business strategy, best practice, system deliverable, modularization and configuration, digital product catalogue, building information modelling and robot technology.

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Anders Thomsen

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Designer Group

Since our formation in 1992, Designer Group has established itself as a leading contractor in the electrical and mechanical engineering contracting sector. Our company provides a complete range of services including design, installation and maintenance to commercial, industrial institutional and government bodies.

Designer Group employs over 400 people who are committed to providing a professional service at all times. The FAS Excellence Through People was awarded to the Group in September 2005 and demonstrates the company’s dedication to continued improvement and personnel training.

We are committed to providing an excellent service to our customers and ensure our best attention at all times. Our accreditation to ISO9001 reflects our dedication to the provision of a quality service.

In 2005 we implemented an occupational health and safety and environmental management system to the internationally recognised standards OHSAS18001 and ISO14001 respectively. Designer Group was the first Mechanical and Electrical engineering contracting company in Ireland to have accreditation to all three of these standards.

Safety in the workplace is top priority for the group. Our ISO 18001 management system headed by our Safety Manager, proves an excellent tool in ensuring that the safety standards on site are consistently high and in line with current regulations. The Company received a prestigious safety award presented by the National Irish Safety Organisation in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

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Michael Stone

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ELA8

ela8 is a specialist R&D tax relief consultancy with clients ranging from large FTSE 100 international groups to small startup companies. ela8 most often puts together the whole R&D tax claim, covering both the technical justification and costing side, but can also supply just advice. Usually a claim is done on a contingent basis, where our fees are agreed to be a percentage of what is finally agreed with HMRC – effectively a no-win no-fee situation.

Before starting ela8 in early 2007 Gareth Edwards was a director of the award-winning Deloitte & Touche R&D tax services group. Although an expert in the R&D tax legislation his background is in technology with over twenty-five years of industrial R&D experience. It is this expertise that enables ela8 to provide the insights into eligibility that many accounting firms find difficult to achieve. ela8 have already made successful claims for a number of clients in the offsite construction industry.

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Gareth Edwards

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Enterprise Ireland

Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development and promotion of the Irish indigenous business sector. We also seek to provide assistance for international companies who are searching for world-class Irish partners and suppliers across the globe.

The UK offsite market place is of significant strategic importance and we are pleased to play a role in developing the growth of the market and the promotion of the benefits MMC have to offer for the collective benefit of all. From our London offices, we represent a number of organisations with a broad array of capability and experience. From pre-cast concrete, timber and metal frame solutions, through to significant heavy engineering, kitchen/bathroom pods and also architectural services that sympathetically combine the best of MMC with traditional construction methods.

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John Hunt

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Fusion Building Systems

Fusion Building Systems have been operating in the UK market since 2004, building a reputation as a premium provider of Light Gauge Steel frame structures of up to six storeys. Fusion also produce a pre-insulated, infill walling system, for use in high rise structures. Fusion has a strong track record of success with over 5,000 units completed to date throughout the UK and Ireland. The company’s core values are based around increasing efficiency and applying innovation, thus delivering a premium, affordable, low carbon building technology, which ensures high performance structures. Fusion’s expert team provides design guidance, manufacturing, project management and site erection services.

Fusion’s unique, patented StIFTM panel technology provides a ‘warm frame’ LGS structure, which is ideal for excellent performance under Energy Performance Certificate and The Code for Sustainable Homes’ requirements.

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Gateway Bathroom Pods

The pods designed manufactured and supplied by Gateway are at the forefront of modern methods of construction. Our unique knowledge of off site construction techniques, product innovation and our flexible attitude has helped designers and developers to save time and money for over 20 years.

Already well established in the Hotel building sector the benefits of a pod solution can now be found in a growing number of applications from key-worker homes to prestige city centre apartments.

Operating from our large manufacturing site in the north of England we continue to invest in both our equipment and the skills of our people.

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David Harris

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Jonathan Fenton Jones

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GlaxoSmithKline

Headquartered in the UK and with operations based in the US, GSK are one of the pharmaceutical industry leaders and employ around 99,000 people in over 100 countries.

GSK have a challenging and inspiring mission: to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer. This mission gives GSK the purpose to develop innovative medicines and products that help millions of people around the world.

GSK are one of the few pharmaceutical companies researching both medicines and vaccines for the World Health Organization’s three priority diseases – HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malari. GSK produce medicines that treat six major disease areas – asthma, virus control, infections, mental health, diabetes and digestive conditions. In addition, they are a leader in the important area of vaccines and are developing new treatments for cancer.

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Al O'Dornan

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MoJ NOMS Capacity Directorate - Project Delivery Unit.

The PDU of NOMS is responsible for delivering all the construction and accommodation related projects for custodial use. The Unit covers England and Wales and delivers some 150 to 200 projects per annum.

Projects range from £150k through to £350m and are delivered through both private (PFI) and public sector funded routes.

NOMS uses both on site and off site solutions and is moving towards a more modular based approach to product use.

The Unit has developed its own Lean Project Management System to radically improve its delivery capability and performance which is applied throughout the supply chain.

The NOMS Capacity Directorate through its Director, John Aspinall, sit on numerous influential Government Boards and Forums aimed at improving Public Sector performance throughout the Government estate.

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Mr Terry Stocks

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Howick Ltd

Howick design and manufacture a range steel framing machinery to produce panels, trusses and floor joists for the offsite construction industry.

Howick machinery produces fully finished framing components ready for assembly into panels and trusses. A key benefit to customers is the open source machine control allowing the choice of a number of leading software design packages.

All Howick machines are supplied with no ongoing costs such as licensing fees or royalties unlike many other systems available on the market.

Where needed Howick’s expert team can be called on to design and develop specialist tooling as required for future system development. We also are continually developing new machines and systems.

Howick have supplied machines into over 30 countries worldwide.

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Nick Coubray

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Health Properties Management Ltd (HPML)

Health Properties Management Ltd (HPML) is a property advisory company, specialising in the site acquisition, design, construction, and ownership of a new generation of world-class healthcare facilities.

The company is currently focussed on the UK healthcare sector, where an unprecedented market liberalisation and restructuring of services is creating demand for increasingly flexible buildings that can meet the growing needs and expectations of patients and medical professionals. HPML designs are high in impact, efficient in capital, and are flexible enough to accommodate changing best practices in healthcare, using some of the countries leading design and delivery professionals.

HPML advises a number of organisations, both public and private, including Health Properties Ltd… the exclusive owner of land and property assets commissioned by Circle.

Circle are the UK's largest partnership of consultant surgeons and clinicians, and are committed to launching new hospital facilities that are part-owned by the local clinician community in a number of areas across the UK.

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Mark Cammies

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HSE

The Health and Safety Executive is responsible for health and safety regulation in Great Britain. The Health and Safety Executive and local government are the enforcing authorities.

Our mission is to protect people's health and safety by ensuring risks in the workplace are properly controlled.

HSE looks after health and safety in many sectors including nuclear installations, quarries and mines, factories, agriculture and farming, hospitals and schools, offshore gas and oil installations, the safety of the gas grid and the movement of dangerous goods and substances, and many other aspects of the protection both of workers and the public.

Local authorities are responsible for enforcement in offices, shops and other parts of the services sector.

HSE is part of the Department of Work and Pensions and is ultimately accountable to Lord McKenzie of Luton OBE, Parliamentary Under Secretary for Work and Pensions.

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Angelica Rutherford-Hacon

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Interserve

Interserve Project Services Limited (IPSL) provides whole life solutions for building and infrastructure projects from business case, through design, procurement, construction, to aftercare. The company is a business with more than a 100 year history working from our Birmingham headquarters and a network of 22 regional offices in the UK. In addition, we have overseas operations mainly concentrated in the Middle East.

IPSL are part of the Interserve Plc support services group with worldwide interests related to the ownership, design, construction, maintenance and servicing of property assets.

IPSL operate in many market sectors. We have a wide Client base, including government departments, local authorities, utility companies, and industrial and commercial organisations.

Client needs and customer satisfaction are our priorities. By understanding Clients business objectives and strategies, our services are tailored to deliver whole life solutions, operational functionality and added value which are achieved by innovation, creativity and continuous measured improvement which ensues from lessons learnt.

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David Large

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Kier

The Kier Group Plc is a leading UK building and civil engineering contractor also specialising in private and affordable house building, facilities management, property development and PFI employing 11,000 people worldwide and turnover (2008) of £2.37 billion.

We have four divisions comprising:

KPH is a unification of the residential and affordable arms within the Kier Group created to more closely align the activities of its residential businesses. This is as a consequence of the Group’s refocus towards social housing delivery and away from speculative housing delivery. The new division is better equipped to respond to the current market conditions and the emphasis upon social housing provision within a mixed tenure context.

KPH aims to provide an integrated solution to the public sector in delivery of innovative solution to housing need, specifically in challenging markets. KPH has the capacity and expertise to deliver large scale regeneration projects, respond to the challenges of Local Housing Companies, Housing PFI and the Homes and Communities Agency’s affordable housing strategy. Indeed, KPH enjoys partner status with the Home and Community Agency and is able to apply for and receive the grant directly.

KPH also offers social housing solutions working directly with Housing Associations to deliver a range of services from general needs housing, supported and special needs housing, student accommodation, sheltered and extra care housing.

Working closely with Kier Regional, the contracting division within Kier Group, we are able to offer a ‘total solution’ service to our clients. From site, identification, assembly, civil engineering and land buying to new build, refurbishment, support services and facilities management, we operate across all sectors to deliver sustainable mixed use solutions in a socially responsible manner.

Utilising the resources of our land bank and through framework agreements and negotiated contracts KPH builds approximately 2,000 homes per year.

KPH operates out of four regional offices and represents a geographical management structure. The head office is based at Lysander House, Sandy Bedfordshire with further offices in Glasgow, Scotland, Aldridge in the West Midlands and West Malling in Kent. From our regional bases we provide a local response to our clients needs by the establishment of on-site sub-regional teams.

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Dennis Seal

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Laidlaw Solutions Limited

Laidlaw is the leading specifier, distributor and technical service provider of architectural ironmongery, doorset solutions, handrailing and balustrading and access control to the UK construction industry. For over 130 years Laidlaw has been supplying door hardware and fittings to some of the most prestigious buildings in the UK and overseas. We have built up an enviable reputation for supplying to projects of any scale, delivered on time and to the highest technical specifications.

The Laidlaw philosophy is to work closely with architects and specifiers to provide a total solution to suit each particular application. Each element is carefully selected to meet the performance, aesthetic and budgetary requirements of every project. We supply to an international network of contractors and deliver accurate solutions in all areas of the construction industry. With national coverage provided by 13 regional sales and trade counter branches from Perth in Scotland to Barnstaple in Devon our experienced staff of more than 200 includes over 100 fully qualified Guild of Architectural Ironmongers (GAI) trained staff and doorset specialists. This wealth of experience is readily available to all our customers, providing a comprehensive package of specification and advice on all aspects of our product range. More recently this expertise has been extended to include the Middle East with our new Dubai office.

Laidlaw are already integrated into the supply chains of a number of offsite manufacturers and we continue to innovate to add value to their processes through: supply of integrated doorsets (combining doors with factory fitted ironmongery) ; developing rapid installation solutions (such as our new Integra steel frame doorset) and design and supply of our modular handrail and balustrade offering.

A programme of continual development of our product and service offering, together with improvements to our business processes, has enabled us to add value to our customers. A successful, fruitful and long standing relationship relies on trust in all partners. Laidlaw is the name to trust.

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Shafiq A. Sharif

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Laing O’Rourke

Laing O’Rourke plc is the largest privately owned construction firm in the UK. We have offices in the UK, Germany, India, Australia and United Arab Emirates, with over 27,300 employees worldwide.

Led by Chairman and Chief Executive, Ray O’Rourke, the business has grown rapidly since the merger of Laing and R.O'Rourke & Son Ltd in 2001.

Laing O'Rourke has a truly integrated capability, with a directly-employed internal supply chain allowing us to take a holistic view of construction.

We specialise in delivering ambitious yet achievable construction projects that delight both clients and the communities who use them every day, and the company is responsible for some of the most innovative construction solutions anywhere in the world. Learn more about these projects by clicking on the thumbnails in the right-hand column of pages throughout this site.

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Alan Clucas

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Lloyd's Register EMEA

The Lloyd's Register Group is an organisation that delivers business performance and safety enhancements through asset management and business systems assessment.

To facilitate this, we set, uphold and apply high technical standards of design, manufacture, construction, maintenance, operation and performance across many sectors to the benefit of businesses and communities alike. We are a global safety and risk management organisation serving the following sectors: offsite construction, utilities, ports & logistics, power, nuclear, marine and oil & gas.

The aim of the scheme is to provide confidence to client organisations, end users and insurers of the standardisation of best practice in the provision of offsite services and activities when undertaken by a registered offsite service provider.

The categories of accreditation are: design; manufacture; construction; and project management

Lloyd’s Register may be supported in the scheme assessment process by either BBA or SCI (as appropriate).

More information on the Buildoffsite Scheme is available on www.lloydsregister.co.uk/schemes

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Terry Mundy

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Loughborough University

The Construction Management unit forms part of Loughborough’s Innovative Manufacturing and Construction Research Centre – a research council sponsored centre of excellence comprising 45 leading academics and more than 150 contract research staff.

Built environment research at Loughborough covers five key themes: innovative construction technologies; management of human resources; advanced information & communication technologies; improvements in construction business processes; sustainability & building performance.

Recent research activity of interest to Buildoffsite include: the £1bn Energy Technologies Institute; Adaptable Futures; Big Ideas; and, Mega-scale Freeform Construction.

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Alistair Gibb

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Marks and Spencer

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Paul Glinn

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Mike Jackson Associates

Mike Jackson Associates is a firm of Construction Consultants who have worked for many years in Modular Construction offering Quantity Surveying and CDM Co-ordinating services.

ModularUK

ModularUK has over a decade of experience in the design, manufacture and installation of modular and volumetric buildings.

Flexibility, innovation and quality are the key drivers behind the company’s success, which is enjoying year-on-year growth – largely through recommendation and repeat business from our expanding client portfolio. As part of the Champion group of companies, we have the ability to carry out multi-million pound projects and the experience and skills to deliver buildings to our clients on time, to budget and with the highest quality standards.

Offsite manufacture offers many advantages over traditional build, including higher levels of quality control at each stage of the construction process, a fast track build programme to ensure earlier occupancy, as well as less snagging and minimal disruption on site.

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Stephen Wightman

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NG Bailey

One of the co-founders of Buildoffsite, NG Bailey has invested over £5million in the UK’s largest off-site building services manufacturing capability. Bailey Off-site is a pioneer of manufactured building services solutions, providing pre-tested and already insulated or wired M&E systems that can be rapidly connected and commissioned.

The company’s project management expertise has recently been utilised to advise the consortium behind a cutting edge PFI project worth in total approximately £430m, for St Hen’s and Whiston Hospitals.

The NG Bailey Group provides a comprehensive range of M&E design, installation, manufacture, refresh, maintenance services and Information Communications & Technology (ICT) solutions.

• Bailey Building Services: the largest subsidiary of the company, providing M&E services
• Bailey Maintenance: planned and preventative building services maintenance, facilities management and energy management systems
• Bailey Teswaine: independent ICT solutions
• Bailey Johnson: design, supply and installation of suspended ceilings, architectural mouldings, partition walls, fibrous plasterwork and fire protection solutions

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Cal Bailey
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Ormandy Ltd

Off-site packaged m&e solutions

Ormandy Group is just eight years old, but already has a turnover of £25million. It has an extremely broad range of products for hvac and specialist applications and is one of the country’s leading providers of complete off-site, prefabricated m&e services.

The group includes well-known commercial and industrial heating brand names such as Rycroft and Hartley & Sugden. It has expanded rapidly through a combination of organic growth and acquisitions, and the broad range of products now within the group allows it to create bespoke m&e packages for almost any application.

The original Halifax-based Ormandy ‘heat exchange and packaged solutions’ is the hub of the off-site prefabrication business and all of the group’s commercial water heating equipment, storage vessels and thermal stores are supplied under the Rycroft brand name.

Ormandy Electric Heaters, formerly Heatrae Industrial, manufactures an extensive range of electric heating equipment and the group also produces a comprehensive range of industrial and commercial boilers including high efficiency / low NOx output boilers for single or multiple installations from 40 to 6,000 kW under the Hartley & Sugden name.

Newade Stainless provides stainless steel equipment for the specialised chemical; confectionery; food and pharmaceuticals industries along with stainless steel vessels, calorifiers and fabricated packages for the commercial hvac market.

DREH, founded in 1952, supplies marine high duty and copper / cupro nickel fittings as well as fabricated solutions such as soil and waste and fresh water float assemblies.

The most recent company to become part of the group is Aquatherm Sales UK, which designs and manufactures plastic piping solutions.

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Paul Cooper

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Portakabin

Portakabin has provided inspiring accommodation solutions of outstanding quality and exceptional service for nearly 50 years. Its modular buildings can be tailored to a broad range of public and private sector needs, and with the complete reassurance of its Customer Charter – unique in the industry, it will deliver buildings to its Sales and Hire customers consistently on time and on budget.

With its unrivalled manufacturing facilities and the widest network of Hire Centres in the UK, Portakabin can deliver both bespoke buildings and standardised solutions in the most challenging timescales, safely, and with less impact on the environment.

All Portakabin products are supplied with an unrivalled product and structural warranty package for further peace of mind, and benefit from extensive independent accreditations, including Buying Solutions, Zurich, BBA and LABC approvals.

Whether the requirement is for a permanent or temporary building, a decant facility or a sales or hire solution, Portakabin has a product for every application and situation – from single module buildings to four-storey schemes, and with a wide range of aesthetic and fitting out options.

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Mike Williams

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Roger Bullivant

Roger Bullivant Ltd are the country’s largest specialist foundation engineering company, founded over 35 years ago.

From early beginnings in the underpinning and mini-piling business, the company has enjoyed year on year growth and last year had a turnover of £100m. RBL operates out of a centrally located, 250 acre, headquarters site in the Midlands at Burton-on-Trent and also has eight other specialist centres across the UK. Three of the sites are also manufacturing facilities; Burton-on-Trent, Stafforshire, Tyne & Wear and Bridgwater, Somerset.

The company delivers value engineered solutions in Piling, House Foundations, Ground Improvement, Mini-Piling and Underpinning and special Pre-cast Concrete Products. With over 40 years experience, RBL is renowned for innovation within the foundations engineering market and the company commits in excess of £2m on Research & Development every year.

RBL recently acquired Cheshire based Buchan Concrete Solutions to add to its port folio of companies.

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Steve Parker

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Sandwood Design and Build Ltd

Sandwood is a medium sized main contractor operating in the Greater London area. We specialise in social housing and have extensive new build and refurbishment experience.

Our approach is led by our desire to construct buildings that combine highquality workmanship with modern and exciting design. This is achieved through our well-trained and highly experienced workforce, which enjoys the challenges of constructing award-winning buildings alongside more traditional projects.

Sustainability is a key priority at Sandwood. We have considerable experience of a variety of new technologies and modern methods of construction. We offer the services of our three in-house Code for Sustainable Homes assessors, our SAP assessor and two BREEAM Accredited Professionals to clients before and throughout the construction programme to help achieve and exceed the levels stipulated by the Housing Corporation.

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Gerry Lennon

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Steel Construction Institute (SCI)

The Steel Construction Institute (SCI) is the leading, independent provider of technical expertise and disseminator of best practice to the steel construction sector. We work in partnership with clients, members and industry peers to help build businesses and provide competitive advantage through the commercial application of our knowledge. We are committed to offering and promoting sustainable and environmentally responsible solutions.

SCI develops and promotes the effective use of steel in construction, our research and development activities cover all aspects of steel construction including multi-storey and industrial buildings, bridges, infrastructure applications and offshore structures. Our breadth of knowledge spans comprehensive guidance on structural design, fire engineering, sustainable construction, architectural design, building physics and information technology.

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Dr Bassam Burgan

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Scott Wilson Group plc

Scott Wilson Group plc is a global integrated design and engineering consultancy for the built and natural environments. With its headquarters in the UK, the Group has a worldwide network of 80 offices and 6,000 employees. Scott Wilson offers Strategic Consultancy and multi-disciplinary professional services in the Railways, Buildings & Infrastructure, Environment & Natural Resources and Roads Sectors.

The key Regions are the UK, Asia-Pacific, Europe, India and the Middle East, with regional centres in London, Hong Kong, Warsaw, New Delhi and Bahrain/Dubai.

Current high profile contracts include Manchester Waste PFI, Brent Civic Centre, London Crossrail and the A46 design in the UK and Nam Thuen 2 Hydroelectric project Laos, Erbil International Airport Iraq, Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor India, Diyar Al Muharraq Bahrain, Florida I-595 Corridor Roadway Improvements USA, Wuxi Integrated Transportation Hub China, Colombo Port Expansion Sri Lanka and the S69 Expressway Poland.

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Mark Bew

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SEGRO

SEGRO is a property investment and development company focused on the provision of Flexible Business Space in Europe.

Headquartered in the UK, SEGRO plc has a listing on the London Stock Exchange and on the Euronext in Paris. SEGRO is Europe’s leading provider of Flexible Business Space and one of the largest REITs in the world. The Company serves a diversified customer base of more than 1,600 customers, operating across a wide range of sectors and representing both small and large businesses, from start ups to global corporations.

SEGRO’s focused business model has driven expansion in the UK and across Continental Europe in Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland and Spain.

SEGRO seeks to achieve superior total returns for its shareholders. At SEGRO we are determined to maintain our position as a world class performer in our chosen markets

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Brendan Fogarty

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Skanska

We are part of the global construction and development group; Skanska. We are proud to make a real difference to the way construction is delivered, by combining our skills and expertise and working closely with our clients, partners and with the community.

In the UK Skanska carries out huge projects and literally thousands of small ones.  Everyone has heard about the Gherkin in London, the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, the Dartford Crossing, the M1 widening and the huge PFI hospitals and schools that we build.  At the same time we dig hundreds of holes every day to replace and renew the gas, water, electricity and telephone lines of the UK, we support many of the large buildings and infrastructure projects on our sites.  We are leaders in mechanical and electrical engineering and piling and foundations and much more.

We create sustainable solutions and aim to be leaders in quality, green construction, work safety and business ethics. Of course, we also aim to maximise the potential of Skanska with regard to returns.

Our approach of bringing together a wide range of experience means that we aim to be the best at the development and delivery of integrated projects.

We are proud to make a real difference to the way our projects are delivered. We do this by combining our knowledge and working closely with our clients, partners and the community.

Employing over 5,000 staff in the UK, we undertake over £1.3 billion of work each year. The company dates back to 1887 when Aktiebolaget Skanska Cementgjuteriet was established as a concrete product manufacturer.

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Roger Bayliss

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Southern Housing Group

Southern Housing Group is one of the largest housing associations in the south of England, housing 66,000 residents, owning and managing over 24,000 homes, employing 900 people and working with over 70 local authorities. Our experience has taught us that investing in people and communities is as important as building homes and this philosophy has informed our activities for over 100 years.

As a Group, we answer the need for quality housing for both rent and shared ownership through our award-winning new build and reinvestment programme. Southern Housing Home Ownership provides a range of low-cost home ownership and intermediate housing options.

To provide an independent source of funding, Southern Space develops housing for outright sale on the open market. In partnership with various organisations, Southern Housing Foundation funds a range of community initiatives to help create sustainable neighbourhoods where people want to live. South Wight Housing Association delivers the full range of group services to residents in the Isle of Wight, and James Butcher Housing Association does the same for residents along the M4 corridor.

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Tom Dacey

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Terrapin Ltd

Terrapin’s success stems from anticipating market trends and the continually developing need for a new form of construction to meet the regulatory & performance requirements such as those leading up to 2016 & beyond whilst providing quality, cost effective buildings without compromising good architectural practise.

The dynamics of the Construction Industry have become increasingly focussed around these new pressures to deliver buildings that combine aesthetics with improved building economics in an affordable manner. The intelligent use of Terrapin’s manufactured building systems, either in isolation or in combination, provides Customers with assurances that these expectations will be met whilst providing greater cost certainty, minimising waste, reducing time on site, an improved Health & Safety performance with less reliance upon traditionally site based skill sets & disruption to residents affected during the site time construction process.

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Adrian Day

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Tekla (UK) Limited

Tekla's model-based software products make customers’ core processes more effective in building and construction in more than 80 countries. Premium-brand Building Information Modelling (BIM) software Tekla Structures enables accurately detailed, highly constructible 3D and 4D models that apply to every stage of design and construction and always represent the 'as-built' condition of a building. The model-driven collaborative workflow results in high efficiency, profitability and on-time project completion. Tekla Structures is available in specialised software configurations for structural engineers, steel detailers and fabricators, precast concrete detailers and manufacturers, as well as construction companies. More information at www.tekla.com/uk

Tekla Structures for all modern methods of construction! Whether your building is steel, timber or concrete, Tekla Structures provides one solution for all. Tekla brings over 40 years experience into the modular and off-site construction industry. We provide time saving, cost efficient software allowing collaboration with all.

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Bettany Paul

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Total Flow

Total Flow is a consultancy that specialises in whole system performance improvement. We do this through a powerful combination of education, consulting, and change facilitation, sustained by innovation workshops, coaching and workplace training. We educate, inspire, transform and disrupt.

We are acknowledged as thought leaders in our approach to product and process design, operational performance, supply chain management, customer satisfaction and quality transformation, and lean enterprise.

Within BuildOffSite our goal is to:

• Enable off site manufacturers industrialise fully their operational capability: Designing and developing products and manufacturing processes to achieve exceptional performance, reliability and cost: Adopting system engineering principles to drive through life quality, cost and delivery benefits.

• Support existing supply chains to identify and remove systemic cost and to align their capability to the expectations of the client.

• Build on and off site consortia to develop off the shelf, turn key propositions utterly compelling to, planning authorities, clients and end users.

• Facilitate client organisations and their supply chains to explore their current state and to realise value through the application of end to end flow, process improvement, integrating off site solutions where there is a robust business case to do so.

We have a highly skilled and versatile team of improvement professionals, who’ve operated at director level in the corporate world and dealt personally with the competitive issues you face.

Our services include education, consulting, change facilitation and training for companies that are ready to pursue innovation through every part of their value chain. It’s a recipe for success that has made Total Flow one of the fastest growing and most inventive consulting organisations in the world.

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Tim Hall

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TRADA

The Timber Research and Development Association (TRADA) - is an internationally recognised centre of excellence on the specification and use of timber and wood products.

TRADA is a company limited by guarantee and not-for-profit membership-based organisation. TRADA's origins go back over 70 years and its name is synonymous with independence and authority. Its position in the industry is unique with a diverse membership encompassing companies and individuals from around the world and across the entire wood supply chain, from producers, merchants and manufacturers, to architects, engineers and end users.

TRADA aims to provide members with the highest quality information on timber and wood products to enable them to maximise the benefits that timber can provide. We seek to achieve this aim through active and on-going programmes of information and research. Information is provided through this website, an extensive collection of printed materials and our training courses.

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Andrew Abbott

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UK Timber Frame Association

The UK Timber Frame Association is the voice of the timber frame industry, including designers, manufacturers, and those that sell to housebuilders, developers and Selfbuilders. We’re here to tell people about the benefits of timber frame construction and how to use it effectively ,safely & seeking higher standards.

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Bob Davis

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UNITE

UNITE Modular Solutions Ltd. has been operating as a specialist sub-contractor as part of the off-site manufacturing sector for 7 years, supplying and installing over 15,000 fully-fitted modules across some 60 large-scale construction schemes. It specialises in the design, manufacture and installation of modular accommodation in the student accommodation, hotel, defence and residential sectors It has successfully worked with many leading players in the UK Construction Group and has secured a position at the forefront of the off-site manufacturing industry boasting one of the country's most advanced manufacturing facilities for modular construction. The business has successfully deployed product across the breadth of the UK from Plymouth to Aberdeen, and has completed projects comprising only 50 modules up to 1400 modules. UNITE Modular Solutions is ISO 9001 and 14001 accredited.

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Graham Cleland

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Vision Modular Structures

Vision Modular Structures manufacturer structural volumetric modules which are turn-key for the residential, hotel, MOD and health care sectors.

The unique system incorporates integrated structural steel framed walls and solid concrete floors to give a robust self-supporting structure. Vision has recently constructed the tallest Modular building in the world standing at 25 storey’s.

The company’s core values are based around increasing efficiency and applying innovation, thus delivering a premium, affordable, low carbon building technology, which ensures high performance structures. Vision expert team provides design guidance, manufacturing, project management and site erection services.

The system offers a number of benefits in terms of cost control, shorter construction time on site, high quality finishes and reduced site waste by up to 90% to mention but a few benefits.

Vision Modular Structures aim is to become the UK’s leading modular supplier in the off-site market.

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Yorkon

Portakabin subsidiary, Yorkon, has pioneered innovative off-site building solutions over the past three decades, in some of the most challenging situations and in sectors as diverse as supermarkets, offices, hospitals, airports, laboratories and schools.

The Yorkon steel-framed modular system can help deliver award-winning buildings up to 50 per cent faster, on time and on budget, and with greatly reduced disruption. It is a more sustainable approach to construction, which offers enhanced thermal efficiency and reduces material waste by up to 90 per cent.

The system allows the creation of 12m clear internal spans up to six storeys high and with unrivalled architectural variety for the external envelope.

The fact that more than 70 per cent of Yorkon’s business is from repeat customers is further evidence of its success.

Its latest innovations include the award-winning high performance floor – a pre-installed concrete floor option developed for modular buildings with areas of high footfall, heavy point loading or to accommodate sensitive equipment. It is now believed to be the highest performing floor available for any modular building.

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David Johnson

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