MMC Specialist of the Year

This category celebrates excellence from a specialist in offsite or modern methods of construction (MMC) within the UK.

Alexander James Contracts

Alexander James Contracts, founded in 2012, prioritizes maintaining a familial business culture while experiencing rapid growth. Emphasizing sustainability and community engagement, they collaborate with supply chain partners like Frameclad and Bentley SIPS to deliver zero-carbon homes via off-site fabrication. Notable projects include partnerships with Royal Borough of Greenwich, Tower Hamlets, and Haringey for zero-carbon schemes. With 50% turnover from MMC, they aim to increase to 70%. Quarterly awards recognize team efforts in various categories. Excelling in health and safety, evidenced by 100% excellence in MMC zero-carbon schemes. Site managers engage in community initiatives, embodying AJC's commitment to social responsibility.

Algeco

By investing £3.5 million in its Carnaby facility, Algeco has demonstrated its commitment to the offsite sector, creating over 30 jobs in the process. With a strong focus on research and development, as well as a commitment to social value and the environment, Algeco's manufacturing capabilities are leading the charge within the UK offsite industry.

Boutique Modern

A redevelopment of a hard to access brownfield site made possible thanks to the advantages of modular construction, which has created a beautifully designed affordable and sustainable housing development with low energy bills. A fabric first approach to design makes the homes warm in winter but cool in summer, while the modular homes look like they could fit in anywhere in Eastbourne. This development shows how modular housing can unlock thousands of small derelict sites around the UK and provide one of the solutions to the nation’s housing shortage.

Evolution Home and Leisure - Matrix Structures

Fabric first approach, precision manufactured panels resulting in our homes being defect free even with rapid site construction, efficient factory planning, and panel assembly leads to no waste onsite. Design flexibility for architects, non-combustible materials, strong, efficient, and light weight system reducing foundation cost, speed, durability and ease of manufacture and assembly leading to perfect social value opportunities creating job opportunities for all genders, ages, and physical abilities. One tool required for fixing the panels together creating a strong monocoque structure which can be adapted for our floating hulls when building on flood prone land and compatible with traditional methods.

Innovare Offsite

Following a devastating fire, an innovative new eco building was developed for the new St Mary’s Academy in Derby which was completed by Innovaré in June 2023. Targeted to be net zero carbon in operation, the biophilic design focuses on connecting those inside with nature, with the goal of promoting physical and mental health. Maximising modern methods of construction, Innovaré adopted an innovative approach to developing the pioneering panelised Psi-FAST system. This technology has been used to great effect to provide a safe and sustainable solution for the UKs first biophilic school, completed as part of the DfE’s Pathfinder Project.

TopHat

Kitchener Barracks is a project that demonstrates the art of the possible. A heritage, listed asset on a difficult site. Not one where many would consider an MMC solution. TopHat have delivered a beautiful, sustainable project that is recognised for its architectural merits, its world-leading sustainability, its placemaking and one that has become aspirational, being all sold off-plan at higher than local market rates. Kitchener Barracks demonstrates that MMC is a solution, not a barrier.

Zed Pods

ZED PODS is an innovative SME specialising design-led off-site volumetric MMC housing solution. We have a track record of addressing social inequality in housing and contributes to climate change mitigation through our zero-carbon design and acclaimed sustainable developments. Collaborating with Mid Devon District Council and 30 other public sector clients, we unlock challenging brownfield sites to build zero-carbon homes. Last year, we completed St Andrews House, a six-unit social-rent zero-operational carbon housing scheme. It marked the region's first MMC-led initiative to had received funding through the first round of Brownfield Land Release Funding (BLRF1) to break ground nationally.