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It was great to be speaking this week at the University of the West of England MMC conference alongside a brilliant group of people pushing the boundaries of industrialised construction. Edward Jezeph of Homes England led-off with an introduction to MMC, why it’s the future, did an honest assessment of successes and failures and outlined the volume of funding that will flow through the Social Affordable Housing Programme! Ele George highlighted just how far MMC has come, from platform thinking to delivery at scale and used the LEGO Group blocks as an elegant demonstration of the huge variety of options that come from systemised engineering. Grant Davies of Resipoint took us through how high density MEP solutions work to deliver large scale development solutions in housing and other sectors. There’s a real sense of momentum building across the sector, but they also point to the challenge we all know still exists: how we move from capability to consistent, scalable delivery. My contribution on Agile Homes work focused on a simple but critical point: MMC will not happily scale on a high Capex investment model. If we want to deliver housing at the pace and volume the UK needs, particularly in areas like Specialist Supported Housing and Temporary Accommodation, we have to rethink not just how we build, but how we finance and deploy manufacturing capacity. At Agile Homes, we have a different approach: • Low Capex, Distributed Manufacturing, or what we call “Flying Factory” • Materials from regenerative supply chains From Field & Forest to Front Door or F4D for short. • Delivery models aligned with local authority demand for social housing with long-term income models that pension funds can finance. • Integration of what we call Carbon and Social Value Trading as a new finance flow for affordable homes. The conversation is shifting, from “can MMC work?” to “how do we make it work everywhere?” That’s where the opportunity now sits. Thanks to Hector Archila at University of the West of England for hosting, and to everyone contributing to a genuinely constructive and forward-looking discussion. #MMC #ModernMethodsOfConstruction #HousingCrisis #LowCarbon #SocialValue #AgileHomes #OffsiteConstruction #Innovation #UWE
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In other news! 👇
We’ve just submitted a planning application for Halton Senior Cohousing Group! Lucy Wood and Pat Steward worked closely with HSCG, a wonderful group of over 55s who choose to live together as a community. Fourteen homes, shared landscaped gardens and a common house where neighbours will meet, eat and share support with each other.  At Agile Homes we know that interdependence and independence combined for later life works. The landscape design is core to how the design works, swales, planting and people flow together. We were able exceed the Biodiversity Net Gain target entirely on site, in a relatively dense layout. Ground screws, rather than trench foundations keeps the hydrology of the site intact! The whole, definitely greater than the sum of its parts! #Cohousing #communityled #lowcarbon #affordablehomes
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A pleasure to host the @educationgovuk & @ForestryComm at our centre for Low and Innovative Carbon Solutions. We talked all things timber, skills training & education, affordable homes & schools estate. A b We’re called Agile Homes but we also do low carbon affordable schools, because schools, community & housing are always interwoven. 🌱🌾🌳🏗️🏡🌍💚
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Carbon and Social Value Trading. What’s that? An affordable home has become the oxymoron of our time! It’s time to think differently about how we deliver properly affordable homes. At Agile Homes we’ve created a new finance flow we call CSVTs. This is 52 seconds from a seminar we are doing in collaboration with Macildowie Recruitment and Retention that explains how it works. Full video is here: youtu.be/r-9wDDU3E50?si=XuE3… Not compulsory viewing, but we think it will make a difference and so could be worth the watch! #affordablehomes #propertyladder @SustMeme @VSfromCrisis
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Schumacher said ‘Small is Beautiful - economics as if people mattered’ At Agile we agree but with a subtle difference! Instead we say: Small is Beautiful - housing as if people and nature mattered! And it turns out others agree! The Stonebridge Park project for Places for People won a Bristol Civic Design Award this week! Seven homes for formerly homeless people with complex needs, provide a safe, civil and low carbon home where they can rebuild their lives, set overlooking a valley that connects them to nature. Well done Lucy Wood, Pat Steward , James Brown, Sarah Jones-Morris and the wider team at Agile Homes. The award comes with a blue plaque too! 😎
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There is just 2 days until the Radical Housing Conference! eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-h… We have a fabulous lineup of speakers. Whether it's new build or retrofit, we're here to fix the housing crisis. From financial innovation to new models of land assembly, Carbon and Social Value Trading and preFABulous design! If you think you might be a Housing Radical, why not join us and confirm it for sure and join us?
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Three days until the Radical Housing Conference! Online or in person we have last minute discounts! 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-h… 🎟️ We have a fabulous lineup of speakers. Whether it's new build or retrofit, we're here to fix the housing crisis. From financial innovation to new models of land assembly, Carbon and Social Value Trading and preFABulous design! The housing crisis will not be fixed by doing what we've always done. Instead, it's going to be everyday people doing it for themselves radically! If you think you might be a Housing Radical, why not join us and confirm it for sure and join us?
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The Radical Housing Conference goes online! 📆 May 2nd 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-h… We had 250 Housing Radicals Join us at our last online conference. Are you a Housing Radical? #housingcrisis #endhomelessness #Affordablehomes @insidehousing @SustMeme @VSfromCrisis
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Access to a safe, civil, low carbon, affordable home is not a lot to ask for, but the housing crisis has cut off supply! So it's time to get radical, because doing what we always did, will only get us what we always got. Are you a housing radical? 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-h…
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🤫 Psst! Did you know that the housing crisis continues unabated? Are you tired of hearing the same old same old, when it comes to housing? Are you up for being a little bit radical? Well, keep it quiet, but Radical might have to be the new normal! Remember, the first Rule of Radical, is you do not talk about Radical! Please, do not share!
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Given we’re in a “housing emergency” there is no time to waste. RADICAL HOUSING CONFERENCE SCOTLAND is not about what needs to be done — we know that — but how we implement it: from finance, to regulation, to construction. 📌 Birnam Arts & online 📆 9am-5pm, Fri, 2 May 2025 eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-h… Concessions available.
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Matt is a Housing Radical! Are you? 👇
Innovation in low carbon, digital MMC is why Matt Stevenson is a Housing Radical! Recognised as an industry leader in digital construction technology & innovative low-carbon building design, Matt’s work at Ecosystems Technologies exemplifies why he’s one of our speakers. Are you a Housing Radical? Then join us in person or online at: 📌 Birnam Arts & online 📆 9am-5pm, Fri, 2 May 2025 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-h… #MMC #affordablehousing #housingcrisis
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Forget tariffs! It’s access to low carbon affordable homes that’s the problem! It’s not a lot to ask for but the housing crisis cut supply! So it’s time to get radical. If you think you might be at risk of being a Housing Radical then click the link! 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-h…
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Innovation in low carbon, digital MMC is why Matt Stevenson is a Housing Radical! Recognised as an industry leader in digital construction technology & innovative low-carbon building design, Matt’s work at Ecosystems Technologies exemplifies why he’s one of our speakers. Are you a Housing Radical? Then join us in person or online at: 📌 Birnam Arts & online 📆 9am-5pm, Fri, 2 May 2025 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-h… #MMC #affordablehousing #housingcrisis
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What is a Radical Housing Conference? Well, here’s one we did earlier! 🎦 👇 If you think you might be a Radical, then join us, or please share into your networks. The housing crisis is going to be fixed using new models, not old ones! 📅 May 2 ⏰ 8:30 - 17:00 GMT 🎟️ From £20 online & £40 in person! 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-h…
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Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin. We love some R ‘n D. Hi-load, Low-Carb, testing oscillatin. If ya got the feelin', jump up towards the ceilin' Jump up, jump up and get down. We preFAB homies came to win! We ain’t no house of pain! 🌱🌾🌳🏗️🏡🌍💚 Sound up! 🔉
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It was great to be at @FuturebuildNow this week. Catching up with people determined to build a better built environment! #biobased #architecture #futurebuild2025
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Can a building be light on its feet? 👣 👇
This is Wolverley Church of England Secondary School sports pavilion. And of course we wanted to reflect that in how we made it. So, the building floats above the ground! Why? Well, concrete accounts for 9% of all global CO2 emissions! That's a lot! Concrete isn’t particularly high carbon as a material, in fact it’s pretty low. So why all the CO2? Well, every year the world pours 1 m3 of concrete for every man, woman and child on the planet! That’s 8 bn m3! 🤯 At Agile, we decided not to use concrete for foundations, if we could avoid it, instead we use ground screws. Digging holes in the ground and filling them with concrete, now feels a bit last century to us! So, we’re decarbonising everything we do. Less concrete, preFABulous timber and strawbale construction, super insulation, airtight and triple glazed, all floating on ground screws! This sports pavilion is truly light on its feet! And sport is teamwork! @WCESS Thank you Rebecca Hawthorne, Mark Pollard john ireland Raise Partnership Ltd., Leonard Design John Morgan Richard Savory David Leonard Ian Staples, Chris Bayly, Lucy Smith, Pat Steward, Ian Butler, Steven Edrich Lucy Wood Finlay White Samira Taylor
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We are Celebrating International Women’s Day! Everyone from A to Z! #InternationalWomensDay
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This is Wolverley Church of England Secondary School sports pavilion. And of course we wanted to reflect that in how we made it. So, the building floats above the ground! Why? Well, concrete accounts for 9% of all global CO2 emissions! That's a lot! Concrete isn’t particularly high carbon as a material, in fact it’s pretty low. So why all the CO2? Well, every year the world pours 1 m3 of concrete for every man, woman and child on the planet! That’s 8 bn m3! 🤯 At Agile, we decided not to use concrete for foundations, if we could avoid it, instead we use ground screws. Digging holes in the ground and filling them with concrete, now feels a bit last century to us! So, we’re decarbonising everything we do. Less concrete, preFABulous timber and strawbale construction, super insulation, airtight and triple glazed, all floating on ground screws! This sports pavilion is truly light on its feet! And sport is teamwork! @WCESS Thank you Rebecca Hawthorne, Mark Pollard john ireland Raise Partnership Ltd., Leonard Design John Morgan Richard Savory David Leonard Ian Staples, Chris Bayly, Lucy Smith, Pat Steward, Ian Butler, Steven Edrich Lucy Wood Finlay White Samira Taylor
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