New Homes IN New Ways
24 October 2024 - 21 February 2025
Collaboration and Innovation through Modern Methods of Construction
The New Homes in New Ways exhibition is now open at the Building Centre, London. This interactive exhibition shines a light on the UK’s deficit of social rent homes and the growing temporary accommodation crisis. But the exhibition does not stop there - it will take you on a journey from despair to hope.
The Building Centre is open to the public five days a week and all exhibitions are free to enter. Plan your visit.
Explore our Virtual Exhibition
Thanks to the inspiring work of the numerous partners, we have set this heartbreaking reality against a host of fantastic case studies, expert talking heads and full scale installations, which collectively demonstrate that between us we have the resources, creativity and skills to deliver the high-quality and genuinely affordable new homes we need - today.
New Homes in New Ways Summit 2025: accelerating social rent housing delivery
On Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th February we will host a two-day summit, bringing together local authorities, housing commissioners and the MMC housing supply ecosystem, to mobilise the delivery of social rent homes on small sites.
Exhibition Launch
Experience the buzz of our exhibition launch with this short video tour. Our thanks to Homes England, Crisis and the Built Environment Trust for speaking at the launch on the 24th October 2024. All the speeches from the launch night are available to watch on our YouTube channel, and we’ve turned Housing Festival Director Jez Sweetland’s speech into a blog.
Webinar Series
During the exhibition we are hosting a webinar series to bring to life examples of new homes being designed and delivered through MMC and offsite solutions.
They will highlight case studies from the exhibition and are an opportunity to hear from those involved on key topics.
The events are free to attend and you can register on our events page.
Photos © Chris Jackson
More about the exhibition
The exhibition draws on our 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 to deliver social rent homes at scale and pace.
The exhibition draws on research and insights from a range of sources, which can be accessed here: View exhibition reference list.
The New Homes in New Ways series was produced in partnership with the Building Centre.
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What people are saying
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Jez Sweetland, Housing Festival
“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.”
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John Bonning, Building Centre
“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.”
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Kate Farrell, Crisis
“Crisis, along with many other organisations, are calling for 90,000 social rented homes a year to be built as we know this is what is needed to help sustainably prevent and end homelessness. We are pleased to be working with The Building Centre and the Housing Festival on the New Homes in New Ways exhibition to explore how Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) can play a role in supplementing traditional building methods and contribute to the step change in the supply of genuinely affordable homes that we are calling for. We are supportive of MMC to deliver good quality, well designed homes that meet the standards any of us would expect to live in and this is the test we ask others to use as well.”