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SCI Visits Active Light Steel Test Building

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The Active Building Centre is a centre of excellence working to accelerate the UK’s drive towards net-zero carbon by transforming the way buildings are powered and heated.

The Active Building Centre has several test or demonstration homes at their R&D centre in Berkeley, on the banks of the Severn Estuary. The latest of these is a light steel frame modular building from Hatch Modular built using CliCs Low Rise Residential Design. The building installer was Stelling Properties Ltd. Andrew Way of SCI was invited to visit the test building by Martin Sayers of Hatch Homes Accelerator Limited and was given a tour of the other test buildings by Tushar Kulkarni of the Active Building Centre.

The Hatch Modular steel frame demonstration building at Active Building Centre,
prior to completion of render cladding for the ground floor storey.

Each of the demonstration homes is built to different specifications, showing how renewable generation and storage technologies can be either retrofitted into past generations of housing stock or incorporated into modern-day new builds. From these, The Active Building Centre continuously capture and analyse data on energy performance, so that our understanding of how to optimise green buildings is constantly improving.

It is great to see that light steel framing and modular construction is an integral part of the work which is being carried out by The Active Building Centre. The Hatch Modular CliCs system is one that SCI know well as it has been through the SCI/NHBC Stage 1 System Certification scheme. In order to tackle the affordable housing shortage head on, Hatch Modular has revolutionised the housing delivery model by creating a standardised modular product created in a localised factory setting. A full list of companies with SCI assessment and certification is available on our SCI website along with further information.

A full list of all companies with SCI assessment and certification is available on our SCI website along with further information.