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Four share £100m prefab framework

Contractors Laing O’Rourke, Mar City, F1 Modular and Mears have been selected for housing association Hyde Group’s ‘modern methods of construction’ framework agreement.Hyde is committed to building 6,100 homes over the next five years. Of these, up to 750 will be built using offsite construction and prefabricated structures and building components.The prefab framework deal is expected to be work £100m in total over the next four years.Earlier this year Hyde Group contributed to a Housing Forum report into what is often called ‘modern methods of construction’ or MMC. The report “More homes through manufacture’ aspired to “dispel misconceptions and advance the debate on how offsite manufacture can move into the mainstream housing”.