The company has been awarded a contract for an 8-unit offsite development in Kent
TALO, a company specialising in offsite housing solutions and sustainability, has been awarded an offsite housing construction contract.
The development is located in Oregon Square, Orpington, Kent.
The offsite housing construction contract is for eight houses
The houses will be low energy and will make up a new cul-de-sac in the area. Four of these houses will be semi-detached two-bedroom houses, and four detached three-bedroom houses.
The houses will be constructed offsite using a timber superstructure system. This will take place in Finland, reducing work on site and allowing TALO to give better thermal efficiency and let homes meet Passivhaus standards, reducing bills and carbon emissions.
Energy efficient measures in each home will include mechanical ventilation and heat recovery (MVHR), solar panels linked to the water and underfloor heating, and triple-glazed timber windows, pre-installed.
Currently, the structures of the homes are due to arrive in Kent this Summer, and will take only a week to be ready for brickwork, render, timber cladding, roof tiling, and fitting out.
Offsite construction may offer mental health benefits
Writing for PBC Today in February, David Emery of the Supply Chain Sustainability School argued that offsite construction can offer significant mental health benefits for the construction workforce.
David wrote: “My research revealed ample quantitative data about the incidences of mental ill health, including specific information about mental health in construction.
“However, testing my proposition that offsite construction brought about an improvement in site managers’ wellbeing required me to carry out my own research, in the form of semi-structured interviews. The results – although qualitative rather than quantitative – were unanimous.
“All interviewees were senior site managers, experienced in delivering both traditional construction and offsite construction solutions. They were unequivocal in their belief that offsite construction did indeed deliver project certainty and that this did indeed result in fewer stressors.
“Talking about his offsite project, one site manager said: “The beauty of this job is I can go home and put my feet up and I’m not worried about it because I know everything’s in place. It is a dream job for a site manager.”
“So, the question that arises is this: if you are in any way involved with the commissioning of new buildings or infrastructure, how will you assess any tenders? What value will you apportion to an offsite solution that has the potential to reduce the stressors on the delivery team?
“Would you be comfortable choosing the ‘traditional’ solution that is shown to be more likely negatively to affect the workforce’s mental wellbeing?”
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