Light Steel Frame News

Providing options for both panelised and volumetric design, CPAC bring specialist services to the construction sector by offering light gauge steel components for frames, walls, floors and trusses. Light gauge steel (LGS) brings...

Are you getting frustrated by long-standing skills shortages and frequent project delays that often plague traditional on-site building methods? Then now's the time to try an alternative. British Offsite's UNihouse, a light gauge steel...

LSF specialist Intrastack has launched a partnership with Vector Homes, a Manchester-based provider of sustainable and affordable smart homes. The partnership will see Intrastack provide construction components to...

Voestalpine Metsec has become one of the earliest adopters of the Code for Construction Products Information (CCPI), introduced by the Construction Products Association in response to Dame Judith Hackitt's review of Building Regulations and Fire...

The UK construction industry is set to experience a shift in thinking with the September launch of Offsite Construction Week (OCW) – an unprecedented collaboration amongst leading industry pioneers and associations. Organisers of the...

British Offsite, a division of Weston Group, has received a £1m ($1.27m) contract from Major Housing Association in Dagenham, England, UK.  The company will be responsible for providing an off-site constructed...

Offsite construction and light steel frame specialist Remagin has begun work on three major projects, in Bury St Edmunds, Nottingham and Jersey. 75 Bed Care Home  The first project is to build a care home on...

Intrastack, part of the Saint-Gobain Off-Site Solutions division and leader in Light-Gauge Steel Frame (LGSF) solutions, is announcing its new Low-Rise Housing solution tailored to meet the needs of the construction...

The housebuilding industry is a vast and wide-ranging network of people whose expertise and ambition help to shape the sector and drive it forward. Showhouse is speaking to a selection of those people to understand more about their roles, see...

There is a need for Building Regulations to extend beyond operational carbon assessments to include embodied carbon if the UK is to meet its net zero commitments. Anastasia Mylona, technical director at CIBSE, explains how this could be...

Construction industry insurance provider ICW will become the latest building warranty provider to have a dedicated chapter on light steel framing in their technical manual, when their updated version is released later this year. ...

Acknowledged for connecting the offsite supply-chain with architects, engineers, consultants, contractors and clients who want to be future-ready, Offsite Expo has been integrated into a week boasting educational seminars, interactive panel debates,...

With a 12-strong in-house team of designers and engineers, Frameclad are gearing up to meet the demand of the future home standard which comes into force next year.  Increasing Thermal Efficiency   In...

BAM has started construction on the first office building, 3 Copper Square, at Brent Cross Town, the 180-acre, £8bn mixed use park town development in North London targeting to be a net zero carbon town by 2030. Start on site at 3...