Day: September 1, 2021

Construction Management

£3.46bn London affordable housing grant awards – list

Gerri Nielson

The London Mayor has secured £3.46bn to deliver 29,456 homes with councils and housing associations in first round of bidding for a new five-year affordable homes programme.

This latest grant bidding round cements the council housing comeback in London, with more than four in 10 of the homes being built by councils, totalling 12,024 homes.

More than half of the social rented homes will be built by councils, and 57% of all homes will be for social rent.

A further £5.2bn was announced by the Government today for affordable homes to be delivered outside London by Homes England, but details have yet to be released.

The Mayor’s new 2021-26 programme – running alongside the extended 2016-23 programme – will see 79,000 new homes started over the next five years.

Affordable homes programme 2021-26 allocationsOrganisationTotal

HomesSocial Rent

HomesAHP

FundingHavering395161£35.2 mEstuary Housing Association3016£1.3 mRichmond Housing Partnership13180£13.9 mCity of Westminster Council230106£24.1 mParagon Asra Housing1,455930£181.7 mHammersmith and Fulham394186£32.3 mPoplar HARCA227145£21.2 mA2Dominion Homes500300£56.0 mBarnet217105£23.5 mPlaces for   People Homes4444£4.0 mEaling1,032561£109.6 mHarrow –   Housing411219£44.4 mThe Guinness Partnership300150£32.7 mTBG Open Door Homes4810£3.8 mNewlon Housing Trust12080£15.8 mBromley535535£38.0 mOptivo1,500825£180.8 mWandsworth289138£23.4 mHyde Housing Association1,476590£163.8 mLewisham456285£70.0 mCroydon Churches Housing Association12050£12.5 mKingston upon Thames105105£13.1 mCity of London200150£16.5 mSouthern Housing Group300100£33.5 mLondon Legacy Development Corporation825149£67.7 mBrent701701£111.7 mCamden569569£86.6 mOne Housing Group386252£41.7 mHexagon Housing Association18090£24.9 mRiverside Housing Association15190£18.8 mPhoenix Community HA7348£10.0 mLambeth311212£28.2 mHounslow540540£93.2 mGreenwich230230£38.1 mLondon & Quadrant539154£55.1 mCromwood Housing7575£11.3 mNewham550500£91.7 mSutton6554£10.1 mWaltham Forest7777£15.4 mHackney100100£17.5 mHaringey647647£127.5 mBarking and Dagenham1,757573£171.0 mEnfield1,119824£166.6 mTower Hamlets194194£32.0 mMetropolitan Housing Trust1,035538£128.8 mCatalyst Housing1,000535£118.9 mNetwork Homes1,000500£122.5 mNotting Hill Genesis1,265577£126.8 mOctavia Housing450225£55.1 mReSI Homes1,250£56.3 mClarion Housing Group2,0001,250£240.0 mSouthwark852664£126.5 mPeabody Trust1,000500£120.0 mTotal29,45616,739£3.46bn

In total, almost six in ten of the homes (16,739 homes) funded by the first round of this affordable homes programme will be made available at the cheapest social rent.

The remainder will be for shared ownership and London Living Rent which can help Londoners on average incomes move into homeownership.

The Mayor has set ambitious targets for London to be a zero-carbon city by 2030 and expects homes built with funding announced today to be environmentally sustainable.

New standards introduced in the Mayor’s New London Plan include requirements for all developments of ten or more homes to be net zero-carbon and to incorporate sustainable urban green spaces.

Housing providers building homes funded by the new AHP will also have to meet new conditions on building safety and design.

HP funding project conditions

1. The installation of sprinklers or other fire suppression systems in new blocks of flats

2. A ban on combustible materials being used in external walls for all residential development, regardless of height

3. Minimum floor-to-ceiling heights and a requirement for private outdoor space

4. A ‘sunlight clause’ requiring all homes with three or more bedrooms to be dual aspect, any single aspect one- or two-bedroom homes to not be north-facing and at least one room to have direct sunlight for at least part of the day

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan said: “I am delighted that we have been able to come to a deal with the Government to get started on nearly 30,000 genuinely affordable homes.

“Today’s funding is good news but I know we can still go further, faster, working with ministers, housing associations and councils to deliver more of the homes Londoners so desperately need.”

 

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Improve Handover with New, Easy-to-Use As-Built Export in Autodesk Build

Gerri Nielson

During the handover phase at the end of a project,construction teams are often asked to provide as-built sets, which typically includes document drawings, RFI’s, and submittals. These as-builts can also be helpful during construction if teams need to onboard a new subcontractor or if a third party, like a local planning authority, requests this type of information in order to obtain a building certificate.

When it comes to putting together as-builts, it can be a very manual and time-consuming process. It’s difficult to track down and find all the related documents and versions needed and even harder to organize all of these files into easily consumable packages. Lastly, when you are doing all of this manually or in one-off exports, teams end up with a bunch of disconnected PDF’s making it harder for the recipient to find relevant information as they look through it (e.g. finding which sheet markups relate to which RFIs).

With the new As-Built Export tool in Autodesk Build, Project Admins can easily generate a set of as-builts including sheets, RFIs and submittals, then export for use in handover packages or other third party-requested deliverables. This feature will help eliminate time-consuming manual processes by:

 

Improve your Handover process with the As-Built Export feature

Streamline the approval process of all handover materialsAllow for improved collaboration and communication with owners during the handover processImprove onboarding for new subcontractorsBetter manage handover with filter, sort, and tracking capabilitiesFind relevant handover information much quicker from both internal teams as well as subcontractorsMaintain connectivity with links between PDF sheets and RFI’sHave a reliable way to backup and archive your sheets, RFIs and submittals project data

See the As-Built Export tool in action

Key Benefit of the As-Built Export Tool:

Instant accessibility to as-built information

With the ability to easily aggregate as-built information, teams no longer need to waste valuable time at the end of a project digging through files and drawings to find the latest version. 

Improved accuracy and speed of handover

With the ability to filter and automatically pull the right documents, teams will improve both the accuracy of information included in the handover package as well as the overall speed of getting handover done.

Improved owner satisfaction & repeat work 

When construction teams deliver as-builts with all the right information organized in an easily consumable way, owners are happier and more likely to do repeat work with the GC. Facilities teams also get what they need to confidently operate the building from Day One.

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At the end of the day, we’re all working towards finding a better way to do what we already do. The As-Built Export Tool for Autodesk Build does exactly that. It’s a surefire way to make handover a much smoother process while enabling project stakeholders to easily supply important project information to third party requesters. If you’d like to request a demo, please contact us.

Please note for EMEA customers, this feature is a bit delayed and will be available by mid-September.

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