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H+H, the UK’s largest manufacturer of aircrete, will be exhibiting at Housing 2019. The three-day event, hosted by the Chartered Institute of Housing, is Europe’s largest housing festival and brings together professionals from across the sector to debate the biggest challenges facing the industry.  

There’s nothing quite like a major leadership contest to add an extra layer of excitement into Housing! 

Few could have predicted that Housing 2019 would coincide with the search for a new Prime Minister. Theresa May made housing one of her key priorities during her term so what do her potential replacements have to offer our industry? H+H takes a look…
 

There might have been a quick succession of housing ministers over the past few years, but that hasn’t meant that housing has been entirely off the agenda during Theresa May’s stint as PM. As the search for her replacement heats up, we cast our eye over some of the former Prime Minister’s achievements when it comes to housing.  

Outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May might be remembered in history for her handling of Brexit, but housing, and in particular the social rented sector, featured prominently during her tenure as Prime Minister. 
 

A total of 175 new homes comprising of two, three, four and five bedrooms will be delivered as part of the Sweetlake Meadow development at Longden Road, Shrewsbury, supported by H+H Foundation Blocks. As sustainability was so important on this project, SJ Roberts chose to specify H+H Ltd Celcon Foundation Blocks.

Nantwich based property management firm Slater Homes Limited have recently completed an exclusive development in the delightful village of Bunbury in Cheshire using H+H Celcon Blocks.

Celcon Elements are storey-high panels of aircrete, designed to allow an exceptionally fast build method.  Manufactured to the design storey height of a house with a width of 600mm and a thickness of 100mm, Elements are designed to be craned into place onto a bed of mortar on standard foundations. Blocks are joined using Thin-Joint Mortar with 2mm (3mm) joints, providing an extremely airtight finish and panels can be cut on site to accommodate design details.

H+H’s Director of Housing, Neil Thomas, is set to ride 1000 miles in aid of charity when he cycles from the tip of Scotland to the depths of Cornwall in May. With the aim of fundraising £1 per mile, Neil will set out on May 19 to complete the famous John O’Groats to Land’s End cycle route for Habitat for Humanity.

H+H has been a proud sponsor of the Lifetime Achievement Award for the past 17 years and Marketing Manager at H+H, Jenny Smith-Andrews, explains why the Builders’ Merchants Awards for Excellence continues to be a focus for the aircrete manufacturer.

H+H Celcon Foundation Blocks are being used in a major development in the North West.

H+H is sponsoring this year’s Construction News ‘Sustainable Project of the Year’ Award. These awards are the biggest in the industry and are highly coveted. The ceremony this year will take place at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on 11 July 2019.

You might have noticed that H+H has recently undergone a small but significant rebrand. For over 50 years, H+H in the UK has prided ourselves on our relationship with our customers. It’s something that runs through all levels of our business.

More than a third of workers within the construction industry have seen someone under the influence of alcohol or drugs on site. That was one of the most shocking findings from a 2016 report by the Considerate Constructors Scheme.

H+H Regional Merchant Manager Matthew Compton has been nominated for ‘Best Sales Representative’ in the Builders Merchants Journal (BMJ) Industry Awards 2019, now in their second year and the award will deliver several new categories which reflect the breadth of the sector. The winner will be announced on Friday 19 May at a special luncheon.

A construction boss in Newtown, Wales, reversed his decision to build his new build property out of timber frame, opting instead to use the Thin-Joint System from H+H, after a strong recommendation by his developer. 

H+H is delighted to announce its sponsorship of the ‘Independent Rising Star of the Year’ category at the Builders Merchants Journal (BMJ) Industry Awards 2019. Now in its second year, the awards will deliver several new categories which reflect the breadth of the sector. The winner will be announced on Friday 19 May at a special luncheon.

It’s fair to say that it is freezing outside! For those of you that work outside during the day it is particularly important that you stay as warm as possible.

The Cameron Close development on the Isle of Wight, built using H+H’s Thin-Joint blockwork, has been shortlisted in the prestigious Building Performance Awards run by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers.

Our customers understand our commitment to partnership at every stage of the building process. Now is the time for us to place this firmly at the front of all of our communication.

It is great to finally see some genuine debate on social housing triggered by the release of the hard-hitting ‘A Vision for Social Housing’ report released by housing charity Shelter last week. The very human cost of the effects of too few council homes available and people trapped in an expensive private rented sector which is all too often unsuitable for their needs were laid bare.

It is incredibly disappointing that the Government has refused to listen to calls to stop using taxpayers’ cash for timber-frame modular housing after the Environmental Audit Committee discovered a link between these types of homes and overheating.

While timber spandrel panels are often used in roof construction, using aircrete instead can speed up the build process as well as deliver a more thermally efficient building.