ABERDEEN-based builder Stewart Milne has landed a deal to supply timber frame for more than 1,500 homes to English housing association L&Q.
A spokeswoman for Stewart Milne declined to disclose the value of the deal but said it was a “multi-million-pound” contract.
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Stewart Milne, which has timber-frame manufacturing centres at Aberdeen, Grangemouth and Oxford, said the partnership would support L&Q’s (London & Quadrant’s) plans to build 100,000 homes over the next 10 years. The Aberdeen housebuilder added that it would support L&Q, which has been focused traditionally on London and south-east England. in bids for standalone contracts in the open market.
The Scottish firm declared its timber-systems business had been selected after demonstrating its ability to design, manufacture, supply and erect residential units up to six storeys tall.
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Alex Goodfellow, managing director of Stewart Milne Timber Systems, said the partnership “lays down a significant marker for how new homes can be built at pace and to exacting design standards”.
He added: “We believe [L&Q] are setting the standard for how we should approach the housing shortfall across the UK.”
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Stewart Milne said the closed-panel timber-frame structures will be used initially in the construction of L&Q’s developments at Birnam Mews at Tiddington in Warwickshire and Saxon Reach, at Milton Keynes, with the first deliveries being made this spring.
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