OSM: Time to scale up to meet demand, retain jobs and build capability

EasyBuild director Mike Fox says instead of importing fully-built homes, the Government has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create a sustainable, Kiwi-based, off-site manufacturing (OSM) housing industry. Many readers will have seen the recent positive news that Kainga Ora (formerly Housing Zealand) is poised to order thousands of prefabricated homes using OSM, as it is now […] The post OSM: Time to scale up to meet demand, retain jobs and build capability appeared first on Building Today.

Ryan Smith - Homegrown Mass Timber and BE Change Makers - Scotland, 17052022

MOD X welcomes Matt Stevenson from Eco-Systems Technologies and Mila Duncheva from Stora Enso in the UK. They discuss a government, industry and university partnerships that have aided in evolving the Scottish OSM context for over a decade focused on homegrown biogenic materials The presentation also focuses on the development of skills, equity & sustainability in next generation OSM workforce in Scotland through the "BE Change Makers" program in partnership with BE-ST

BE-ST- Low Carbon Learning, Fabric and Structure - Module 3, Mass Timber Solutions Module, 11052022

Focusing on new homegrown products this module considers the whole life cycle analysis from forest floor to built environment .. supporting designers, specifiers, procurement, etc, to consider the full process (growing/felling/milling/optimising/drying/hauling/manufacturing) to ensure that the lowest embodied carbon options are chosen for the built environment and begin the transitional culture change from focusing on operational carbon, to the embodied carbon of specified construction materials

JCT Povey Lecture 2020: "Safety in Numbers - Resilience and Certainty Through Data"

The JCT Povey Lecture 2020 : "Safety in Numbers - Resilience and Certainty Through Data", presented by Dr Damien Buie, group technical director, Laing O'Rourke

HM Government - Industrial Strategy, Construction Sector Deal, 2018

The Construction Sector Deal sets out an ambitious partnership between the industry and the government that aims to transform the sector’s productivity through innovative technologies and a more highly skilled workforce