News & Blog

Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust’s Derwenthorpe low-carbon community, built with H+H’s Thin Joint System, has scooped the coveted Best Affordable Housing Development Award 2017 in the Inside Housing Development Awards 2017.

Peter Buttle, Chairman of Buttle plc, was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2017 Builders? Merchants News Awards. H+H is proud to sponsor this category and attended the lunch to present Peter with the award.

H+H is delighted to announce that we are sponsoring the inaugural Builders Merchants Journal (BMJ) Industry Awards. The ceremony will be held on Friday 18 May 2018 at a prestigious venue in London.

H+H Works Manager, Rob Wilson, provides an update on the developments at Borough Green ahead of our multi-million-pound upgrade investment.

The SIG I-House incorporating Celcon Element by H+H has won the Best Product award at the Housebuilder Awards 2017.

Is the UK housebuilding sector ready for a drastic change? Reforms to delivery and ownership models will likely decrease volatility and a cross-party consensus on the need to increase housebuilding must surely provide confidence in the long-term outlook for the sector.

A new acoustic Robust Details, E-WM-31 is now available for high-performance cavity separating walls using Celcon Elements, H+H’s storey-height aircrete panels. Used in conjunction with the SIG I-House System, Celcon Elements provide a high acoustic performance which exceeds the requirements outlined in Part E of the Building Regulations.

The new SIG I-House System incorporating Celcon Elements from H+H has just received official accreditation under the Build Offsite Property Assurance Scheme (BOPAS).

With an enormous multi-purpose residential project to complete, contractor AC Lloyd in Warwickshire reduced costs and simplified logistics by continuing their decade-long collaboration with H+H.

In the first of a series of blogs, H+H Technical Director Cliff Fudge highlights how contractors and end-users can benefit from the simple change to aircrete as a foundation material.

An update from Robert Wilson, Works Manager

July marked a real turning point in the upgrade project: this month we have sent five members of the Borough Green team from production and engineering to Germany to see the first of our new machinery being tested at manufacturer WEHRHAHN.

The most recent MARKIT PMI survey of purchasing managers suggests a softening of confidence in the construction sector. However, my personal view is that if there is any area for confidence in the current volatile political environment, itﾒs the provision of new housing.

H+Hﾒs Benny the Builder has finally tracked down all of his missing holiday memories thanks to the help of more than 5000 Whereﾒs Beanie Been competition entries.

The ﾣ1000 winner isﾅ

The new Celcon Elements from H+H form the basis of the radical SIG I-House System being used to construct 164 residential units on a Barratt Homes site in Bromsgrove.

The SIG I-House System, based on the storey-high aircrete panels, delivers a complete house shell with weathertight roof and wrapped in insulation in just one week and is the result of a unique collaboration between H+H and SIG Off-Site.  It is one of a number of building types being trialled by Barratt Homes which is keen to experiment with new methods of construction that offer improved speed of build.

We believe the SIG I-House incorporating Celcon Elements is the future for housebuilding in the UK, but donﾒt just take our word for it.  Watch the SIG I-House animation for yourself and see step-by-step how H+H and SIG are working to build better homes for the future.

Responding to the publication of the Cities Devolution Bill and the Government's policy on Right to Buy, Mark Oliver, managing director of H+H, leading building materials manufacturer, has dismissed any talk that either of these initiatives will have a significantly positive impact on house building numbers in the next five years.

Many of our customers may have been surprised to see the announcement this week that H+H has been shortlisted in the Offsite Awards. Aircrete? Offsite?

Managing Director Calum Forsyth, explores the situation currently affecting the concrete industry and the steps H+H is taking to provide continuity of supply for its customers.

Awards continue to gather for the SIG I-House System incorporating Celcon Elements by H+H, an innovative collaborative housebuilding system created by H+H UK Ltd and SIG Offsite.

The SIG I House, a collaborative housebuilding system created by H+H UK Ltd and SIG Offsite has won the Product Innovation award at the recent Barratt Developments? Supplier Excellence Awards.

In response to requests for information on the supply of aircrete blocks and the upgrading of our Borough Green factory, H+H have put together a frequently asked questions section, which we hope readers will find useful.

H+H, the largest UK manufacturer of aircrete blocks, has launch a third module onto its already popular online training academy.

In a unique collaboration, H+H UK Ltd and SIG Offsite have worked together to create the SIG I-House ? an innovative house building system incorporating Celcon Elements from H+H.  

The SIG I-House provides all the speed of offsite construction with the familiarity of a traditional build, from foundations to roof in just five days.

Launching the Housing White Paper today (7 February), Homes and Communities Secretary Sajid Javid focused clear expectation on the need to build more. ﾓThe only way to halt the decline in affordability and help more people onto the housing ladder is to build more homes. Letﾒs get Britain buildingﾔ.  If only the action supported the rhetoric.

H+H Technical Director Cliff Fudge has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Kingston University in recognition of a 20-year collaboration with the School of Natural and Built Environments on a range of research and testing programmes.

Presenting the degree, Professor Mukesh Limbachiya observed that the outcomes of these have contributed to the introduction of sustainable building products and construction systems in the market place.

That target of a million new homes by 2020.  Is it feasible?  And what does the simple fact of its existence mean for the housebuilding industry in the UK? Look out for a change in direction and prepare for a very busy year is the way Iﾒm thinking at the start of 2017.