New Homes in New Ways at the Building Centre

A joint venture between the Building Centre and the Housing Festival ‘New Homes in New Ways – Collaboration and Innovation through Modern Methods of Construction’ is an exhibition and event series running from 24th October until 21st February 2025.

It tells the story of how Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) can accelerate the supply of new homes, with an emphasis on delivering the social rent housing needed at pace amidst the current housing emergency. The exhibition is co-curated by the Building Centre, a hub for the built environment sector with exhibitions and events in central London, and Housing Festival, a think-and-do tank based in Bristol. It draws on the recently released Social Rent Housing at Pace Playbook (2024), which demonstrates the opportunity for the public sector to incubate a new supply chain of factory-manufactured housing, while unlocking ‘unlikely’ land and rethinking the economics.

Launched by Housing Festival, the Playbook is a response to our broken housing system and severe shortfall of safe and secure social rent homes. The exhibition will include case studies and a showcase of the latest in new housing technology and discuss the environmental, social and financial benefits of providing homes built through MMC. Amidst calls for, and promises of, genuinely affordable new homes - this exhibition will shine a light on our growing Temporary Accommodation crisis and demonstrate how new high-quality, low-carbon homes can be delivered at scale and pace.

The event series will highlight international references and case studies too, and by discussing MMC at national and international scale, we hope to bring change at local level and encourage new housing to be built with quality. It will also explore how a human-centric, outcome-led approach that embeds values into the design and delivery of new homes could benefit residents, communities and wider society.

The Building Centre invited the Government to be part of this conversation, John Bonning, Commercial Director, at the Building Centre said of the event:

“The Building Centre is proud to showcase innovation and industrialisation in the built environment, and we are delighted to be working with Housing Festival. They are identifying the blocks in the UK housing sector and showing how to get over them. We want to turn up the volume and support the whole sector joining in to meet the challenge that could transform the lives of the many thousands of people in need of decent homes. This will bring benefits to the wellbeing of individuals and the economy of our country.”

Jez Sweetland, Project Director, Housing Festival said

“The New Homes in New Ways exhibition is an important opportunity to tell the story of how Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) has the potential to help address the UK’s severe shortfall of social rent homes and Temporary Accommodation crisis. Drawing on the collaborative Social Rent Housing at Pace Playbook, we look forward to sharing innovative case studies from across the UK that show that between us, we have all the required elements to start building the homes we need at scale and pace.”

This article was issued via Press Release as "The Building Centre and Housing Festival announce New Homes in New Ways exhibition" dated June, 2024.

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