Offsite construction specialist the McAvoy Group has revealed plans to expand into the residential sector.
Following extensive product development and collaboration with Queen's University Belfast, the company has produced a steel-framed offsite housing solution for multi-storey apartments, detached, semi-detached and terraced family homes.
With the Government targeting to build 300,00 new homes per year by the mid 2020s, along with its pledge to support the uptake of offsite construction, McAvoy's approach will reduce programme times by at least 50% compared to site-based construction. This will allow earlier occupation for public sector housing providers and generate a faster return on investment for private developers. It will use highly efficient and proven factory processes to deliver greater certainty of completion on time, on budget and to higher quality standards.
Eugene Lynch, Managing Director, said: "We have a proven track record, strong project management expertise and highly transferrable skills in the successful delivery of offsite solutions across a range of other sectors. These factors combined with our financial stability and pioneering work in digital construction technology, mean we are well placed to become a significant player in the provision of high quality family housing manufactured offsite.
"We are an established principal contractor offering a single source procurement solution which integrates the manufacture of homes in a quality-controlled factory environment, for the delivery of new housing to shorter programmes and to higher standards.
"We have ambitious plans for growth in the residential sector and have capacity already in place to meet demand using our highly skilled labour and flexible production facilities. We are also advancing plans to further expand capacity to meet the anticipated growth in demand."
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