Offsite manufacturer, Premier Modular, has been announced as a supplier to public sector-owned professional buying organisation, ESPO, to support on seven lots on their new Modular Buildings framework (953).   Suppliers will design, manufacture, deliver, install and provide maintenance for modular buildings, with the national framework helping to provide much-needed high-quality, future proofed temporary and permanent infrastructure for the public sector.   Premier Modular, celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, is known for its ability to deliver modular schemes through different procurement options and has been awarded to seven out of ten lots of the framework. The lots include the hire and purchase of Modular Healthcare and Education Buildings, and the purchase of Modular Catering, Accommodation and Miscellaneous Buildings.  Progress is expected to continue into 2028, providing the delivery and installation for a range of units from accommodation to site offices, with the option for bespoke design projects.   Premier Modular has continuously worked over the years to meet evolving and growing demand across the public sector. In the past year alone, the business has delivered a new Community Diagnostic Centre at a War Memorial Hospital in Cheshire, supplied a large-scale temporary school to support the development of a new permanent facility at Greenshaw High School, and won a multi-million-pound contract to deliver new security buildings across three major UK airports. In 2025, Premier Modular was also appointed to the £1bn NHS Commercial Solutions Framework, designed to support the rapid and sustainable delivery of modular buildings across healthcare, housing, education and other public facilities.   David Harris, Managing Director of Premier Modular, said: “Being awarded a place on seven out of ten lots of the new ESPO framework reflects our commitment to delivering high-quality, flexible spaces across the public sector. As demand continues to increase, this opportunity allows us to support communities with more speed, more certainty and more sustainable outcomes exactly where they’re needed and matter most.  “By shifting more of the construction process offsite, we’re reducing disruption, improving quality control, and accelerating delivery times and helping reshape the built environment into something smarter, greener and more resilient for the future.”  Building, Design & Construction Magazine | The Choice of Industry Professionals

Reds10 Group has completed a strategic investment in steel fabrication specialist ESL Fabrication Engineers (ESL).  The partnership strengthens Reds10’s vertically integrated, industrialised construction model by bringing critical steel fabrication in-house, enhancing delivery strength and support the business’s next phase of growth. Founded in 2010 by father and son Paul and Gareth Thompson, ESL specialises in the comprehensive delivery of steel fabrication across the UK, from manufacture and installation to repair and maintenance works. The business has grown steadily since its inception, growing its turnover to £7 million in 2026, becoming one of the fastest growing engineering companies in East Yorkshire. The business now employs just under 50 people from its purpose-built factory facility in Kingston upon Hull. ESL will become part of the recently established Reds10 Group, bringing the total number of companies in the group to ten, including Reds10 and its sister companies. The creation of Reds10 Group brings a family of businesses together under one roof to further drive the wholesale industrialisation of design, production and construction, with AI integrated at every stage. ESL has a well-established relationship with Reds10, having worked together for the last five years to deliver high-quality sustainable buildings for the public sector, with a particular focus on defence, education, justice and health. With steel structures being an integral part of industrialised construction, ESL’s specialist technical design capabilities will enhance Reds10’s offering to maximise efficiencies in-house. The companies’ factory locations are geographically complementary, with Reds10 manufacturing off‑site in Driffield, East Yorkshire, and ESL’s purpose‑built facility just 20 miles away in Kingston upon Hull. Speaking of the partnership, Paul Ruddick, chief executive of Reds10 Group, said: “Having worked with ESL for several years, we’ve seen first‑hand the consistent quality of their service and their ambition for excellence and growth, values that closely align with our own. Bringing steel fabrication into the Reds10 Group adds a critical piece of the jigsaw as we launch our next phase of strategic growth to exploit advancing technologies, while integrating AI at every level of the business.” Gareth Thompson, co-founder and managing director of ESL said: “We’ve come a long way since ESL’s inception in 2010 and our partnership with Reds10 feels like a natural next step that will bring clear benefits to both businesses. This marks an exciting next phase in our evolution, and we look forward to building on the strong working relationship we’ve developed with Reds10 in recent years and maximising the opportunities ahead.” The partnership comes after Reds10 reported robust financial results for the 2024/25, with revenue of £144.7m and an industry-leading operating margin of 4.8%. Reds10 has set out an ambitious plan to grow its revenue to £500m and is targeting an expansion into the healthcare sector, as well as the affordable housing and temporary accommodation sectors, providing high quality sustainable homes for local authorities to help them tackle the housing crisis in their communities. Reds10 manufactures all its buildings off-site at its advanced construction facility in Driffield, East Yorkshire, where it has five factories totalling 300,000 sq ft. By investing in its own workforce, the company is able to deliver sustainable and innovative buildings in modern manufacturing facilities which are then transported and assembled on site to the most exacting standards. Building, Design & Construction Magazine | The Choice of Industry Professionals

Public sector procurement organisation YPO has announced the successful suppliers appointed to its £500 million modular buildings framework. The four-year agreement is designed to make it easier for public sector bodies to buy or hire modular buildings. It will support a wide range of sectors, including education, healthcare, housing and justice, by providing faster and more flexible building solutions. Michelle Walker, Head of Procurement Service and Supply Solutions at YPO (pictured), said the framework brings together a strong group of providers delivering both innovative and sustainable options. She explained that the organisation is looking forward to working closely with suppliers and helping contracting authorities get the most value from modular construction, both in terms of efficiency and long-term benefits. A total of 28 companies have secured places across 15 lots on the framework. These include: Actiform LimitedAirport Capacity Solutions LimitedCleveland Sitesafe LimitedElite Systems (GB) LimitedHealth Spaces LimitedHealthmatic LimitedIdeal Building Systems LimitedInstaspace LtdIntegra Buildings LimitedJDC Building Works LtdMac Zero Modular Buildings LtdMcAvoy Modular Offsite LimitedModuleCo Healthcare LimitedModuleCo LimitedMy Fab LimitedP McVey Building Systems LtdPKL Group (UK) LimitedPortable Offices (Hire) LimitedPortakabin LimitedPremier Modular LimitedQube Structures Ltd trading as The QubeSilwood Facilities Limited trading as Silwood SpaceSKW Construction LtdStelling Modular Limited trading as Stelling PropertiesThurston Group LimitedWernick Buildings LimitedWestern Building Systems LtdZED Pods Ltd The framework is expected to play a key role in accelerating the adoption of modular construction across the UK public sector, helping organisations deliver buildings more quickly, sustainably and cost-effectively. Building, Design & Construction Magazine | The Choice of Industry Professionals

A specialist timber engineering company, active throughout East Anglia and the Home Counties, is making extensive use of West Fraser’s SterlingOSB Zero in the production of its diverse offering of high performance, sustainable offsite solutions. Based in the village of Gamlingay on the Cambridgeshire-Bedfordshire border, Pinewood Structures was established in 1981 and has grown steadily to become one of the UK’s foremost suppliers of timber-based systems across a variety of sectors, including housing and retirement developments, hotels and student living. The selection of site-specific solutions includes both open panel timber frame and ‘NHBC Accepted’ status factory insulated closed panels as well as floor and roof cassettes. The Sales and Marketing Manager for Pinewood Structures, Peter Keogh, commented: “Over the past 15 years we have successfully completed over 600 separate schemes encompassing not only residential and student accommodation, but also hotels, supermarkets and other types of development. We manufacture our offsite timber frame solutions at our two purpose-designed factory units in Gamlingay, which provide us with 40,000 square feet of production space. “Importantly, although numbers for the housebuilding industry remain flat, timber frame is steadily growing its market share, and we confidently expect to increase our total capacity from the current figure of approximately 1500 units per year: partly due to the fact we work a lot in affordable housebuilding which is being quite strongly supported by the Government. We are also working with registered providers and developers targeting the buy-to-rent market who favour a quick build method.” Referencing the company’s commitments to being a sustainable supplier, Peter added: “In terms of our manufacturing, we primarily use the West Fraser 9mm Sterling OSB Zero as the sheathing to our open and closed panel systems; though it is also employed in other applications such as for fabricating floor cassettes for apartment buildings which will have an OSB deck onto which an acoustic floor system is installed. We also use CaberDek for some projects. “Pinewood has long had a strong emphasis on the use of sustainably sourced materials, with the low embodied energy of timber having obvious attractions, which we need to prove to our customers through sustainable procurement. In addition, as a major manufacturer, we need a strong supply chain with West Fraser being a national supplier able to support us through reliability and quality. Overall, we are in a good place in the market and are excited about the future for timber frame and what timber products can do to help meet climate challenge.” West Fraser, furthermore, ensures that all its lumber is sourced from responsibly managed forests, mainly in the UK, carrying full chain of custody meaning stocks are conserved by replanting and carefully planned cropping. While local sourcing reduces mileage, West Fraser is also investing heavily in a new rail head for its Inverness plant and buys only renewable electricity for the site – and has switched from gas power to biomass for its drying process. Across the group, ESG commitments are being delivered, and Inverness is on course to attain its 2030 targets next year.  All West Fraser panel products produced in the UK are net carbon negative and manufactured in mills that have obtained the coveted environmental ISO 14001 accreditation.  Responsibly sourced, the panels are FSC® certified (C012533) and created from locally grown timber, cutting embodied carbon from transportation. For further information, call 01786 812 921 or visit https://uk.westfraser.com/ Building, Design & Construction Magazine | The Choice of Industry Professionals

Leading offsite manufacturer McAvoy has been appointed to the LHC £265m Modular Buildings (MB3) Framework, securing a place on all four workstreams: permanent modular buildings (education, offices and community buildings), healthcare facilities, rental of temporary modular buildings and provision of refurbished buildings. This marks McAvoy’s third consecutive term on the LHC Modular Buildings (MB3) Framework, which helps public sector clients to access modern methods of construction. McAvoy has successfully delivered several projects under previous iterations of the framework, including Kelmscott School, Lister Community School, and North Birkbeck Family Resilience and High Needs Centre. Stephen Clayton, Preconstruction Director at McAvoy, commented: “Securing a place on all four workstreams across all regions of LHC MB3 is a fantastic achievement and a clear endorsement of our commitment to quality, innovation and customer service. We’re proud to be recognised as a trusted delivery partner for public sector clients—bringing certainty, sustainability and modern methods of construction to the heart of every project.” Public sector clients can now access McAvoy’s full suite of modular services through the LHC MB3 Framework. For more information about McAvoy’s framework partnerships visit: www.mcavoygroup.com/who-we-are/frameworks-collaboration/ Building, Design & Construction Magazine | The Choice of Industry Professionals

Yorkshire-based offsite manufacturer, Thurston Group, opened its doors in mid-June for an exclusive event with trade body, Made in Yorkshire, as it showcased the improvements made to its company culture, digital infrastructure and facilities in recent years. The firm is targeting £104m turnover by 2027.   Thurston Group currently turns over £51m and employs 377 talented staff across four sites in Yorkshire. The firm is growing at an impressive rate, having recently acquired Storplan, a specialist fabrication business, and the assets of Alsim System Building, a temporary living and secure accommodation specialist, following its insolvency.   The Made in Yorkshire Factory Tour saw Thurston open its doors to over 40 manufacturers from the national Made In network, including Rolls-Royce PLC, Trojan Baths, and A.W. Hainsworth & Sons.   The event kicked off with a candid talk from Thurston’s managing director, Matt Goff, before attendees embarked on a tour around the working factory, they then returned to a panel discussion involving our senior leadership team.  Matt’s presentation prominently featured Thurston’s remarkable growth, directly attributing it to the leadership team’s forward-thinking embrace of digital transformation. This significant shift in mindset – prioritising not only business expansion but also empowering employees through new digital tools and processes – has been the core driver behind the firm’s success, culminating in the doubling of turnover over the past seven years.  As part of the factory tours, which were led by four senior team members, Thuston showcased its newly renovated machine shop, demonstrating the evolving integration of automation in its processes, a transformation delivered in partnership with Software as a Service (SaaS) company, WrxFlo.  Speaking about the event, Matt Goff, said: “It was a pleasure to welcome the Made in Yorkshire community to our site. This is a really important time for our business as we’re implementing technologies that are allowing us to truly level up our business. The improvements that Wrxflo have helped us to unlock through process standardisation, operational efficiency gains and cultural shifts on the shopfloor as a result, have been astounding.   “As Made in Yorkshire members, it was wonderful to share this progress with our peers and learn from one another how we can all work together to improve manufacturing in Yorkshire and pioneer British made products across the nation and globe.”  Thurston Group was founded in 1970 and was acquired by private industrial investment company HLD Group in 2021 through a £16m asset-based lending (ABL) facility that formed part of the total acquisition cost.  Thurston works with hundreds of clients across a range of sectors, including Sunbelt, Wernick Hire, Network Rail, Public Health England, and INEOS.   Building, Design & Construction Magazine | The Choice of Industry Professionals