New Homes IN New Ways

24 October 2024 - 28 February 2025

Collaboration and Innovation through Modern Methods of Construction

The New Homes in New Ways exhibition at the Building Centre in London is now closed.

View the launch event, webinars, and sessions from the New Homes in New Ways Summit on our YouTube channel.

The interactive exhibition shone a light on the UK’s deficit of social rent homes and the growing temporary accommodation crisis, and was designed to take visitors on a journey from despair to hope.

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The exhibition is over, but the work continues!

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More about the exhibition

The exhibition was inspired by our 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 drew 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

  • 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.”

  • 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.”

  • 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.”