Plaisant Place - Hadley Group

High-speed construction on a large scale with HadleyFRAME

Andium Homes is Jersey’s largest provider of affordable housing, with more than 4,000 homes housing over 10,000 Islanders. They needed a large-scale MMC solution to help them redevelop St Helier’s Plaisant Place into a 21-apartment facility — and a brand-new headquarters for the charity Age Concern Jersey.

After an introduction from Jersey construction specialists Normans (Hadley Group partners on the island who had seen their light-gauge steel framing in action), Andium Homes chose Hadley Group's HadleyFRAME MMC system as the perfect fit for their project.

“We visited the Hadley team at a residential development in London, and were immediately impressed by the style of the build and the advantages it could offer the local construction industry,” said Simon Chard, Managing Director at Normans.

“It’s a really innovative and high-speed construction method, and one which is a game-changer for the Island.”

Using offsite construction to panelise the steel framing, Hadley Group guided the team at Normans as they assembled more than 400 panels and roof cassettes at one of their Jersey facilities, before delivering the pre-panelised frames to the construction site.

This Jersey assembly made the deliveries of steel in stick-build form coming onto the island more cost-effective, and enabled Normans to manage the local deliveries to create a just-in-time schedule that reduced disruption.

But beyond these logistic benefits, the pre-panelised HadleyFRAME system also helped Andium Homes and Normans to complete the entire project ahead of schedule:

“Work began in August 2020 and was completed in under a year, largely thanks to this modern method of construction,” said Dean de Mouilpied, Project Manager at Andium Homes.

“The Hadley light-gauge steel framing allows you to construct the building’s framework very quickly. In this instance, it enabled us to complete what would normally be an 18-month project in ten months."

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