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Cast CEO Authors New Government Review On Construction Skills

The Government has published a new government review authored by Cast CEO, Mark Farmer, 9 years after the launch of t...

Blogs

The 2025 Construction Market Outlook

We may be approaching the end of a particularly turbulent and damaging few years but the outlook for 2025 is still fu...

Blogs

2024 Budget: What It Means for Homebuilding & Construction

So the waiting is over, the endless trailing and pre-briefing is now replaced with the reality of what The Chancellor...

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Ready, Steady….. : A Construction Industry Waiting For the Start Gun

You can now read our latest October 2024 Market Update report. In this edition we reflect on the conflicting signals ...

Podcasts

Cast Shares Thoughts on Future Direction of UK Housing Market

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Cast Talks About Construction & Property Sector Skills Challenges

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Cast Talks To Grand Design’s Kevin McCloud About The Potential For Modular Homes In UK

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The Farmer Review of the UK Construction Labour Model

In February 2016, Cast CEO, Mark Farmer, was commissioned by the Construction Leadership Council, at the request of B...

Case Studies

East Village Plot N05

In the years since the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Cast have been collaborating with Delancey, Qatar Diar and ...

Case Studies

Kings Road Park

Riverstone Living aspires to create best-in-class quality living in the Capital: modern apartments available to purch...

Case Studies

Get Living, One Maidenhead

Cast’s relationship with Get Living and their investors has grown as their Build to Rent platform has matured. In tha...

Case Studies

Longley Place, Brighton

L&G Longley Place, Brighton (York & Elder) is a Build to Rent scheme delivered by Legal & General, compri...

Reports

Testing Construction Industry Resilience

2024 is shaping up to be a year of both challenge and opportunity for UK construction. With supply chain stability, e...

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Cast CEO Sets Out Challenge For Residential Fit Out Sector

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Reports

A Construction Market In Flux – August 2023 Market Update

With the construction tender market experiencing continued volatility, it is clear that the primary drivers of cost m...

Blogs

‘Opportunism to Survivalism’ : Cast CEO Sets Out Thoughts On 2023 Outlook For The Construction Sector

As I write this, the sector is facing into one of it's biggest periods of uncertainty in nearly 15 years. What about ...

Case Studies

Plot N18 / N19 East Village

In the ten years since the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Cast have been collaborating with Get Living ...

Videos

Cast CEO Addresses Paris Conference on Construction Industry Modernisation

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Cambridge University PMV Research Roundtable

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Case Studies

Brick By Brick Smaller Works Programme, London Borough of Croydon

To achieve Croydon’s goal of 2,000 high quality new homes across the borough, the council has, like several other for...

Blogs

Cast CEO Sets Out The Broader Industry Decarbonisation Challenge

As part of his latest Building Magazine article, Cast CEO, Mark Farmer discusses the challenges facing the property, ...

Reports

Summer 2022 Construction Market Update

As we experience some of the most turbulent economic and geo-political events in recent memory we analyse the commerc...

Blogs

Cast CEO Sets Out His Thoughts On The Key Issues Facing The Construction Sector in 2022

External events and increasing pressure from investors and clients mean the sector’s priorities are changing. It is d...

Videos

Supply Chain School & RIBA Video On DfMA & MMC Category Deployment

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Podcasts

Cast & Modulous CEO’s Discuss Modernising Construction

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Reports

Cast Help Launch New RIBA Plan of Work With DfMA Overlay

Cast have supported the RIBA and the Supply Chain Sustaiuability School to bring this important new publication to th...

Case Studies

Guild Living Alliance: Reimaging Delivery Through Innovation In Procurement

The Alliance is an innovative approach to the procurement of the Guild Living pipeline centred around collaboration. ...

Case Studies

Blackhorse Mills: New generation of bespoke and high performing residential investment

Blackhorse Mills is a landmark 479 unit Build to Rent scheme in Walthamstow, London. One of the first in a new genera...

Podcasts

Modern Methods of Construction Series – Episode 1

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Cast CEO Mark Farmer discussing the Farmer Review on the Ian King Show

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Modern Methods of Construction Series – Episode 4

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Reports

Cast CEO Co-Authors New Report Urging Government To Accelerate Adoption Of Modular Homebuilding

A new report has been published, jointly authored by Cast CEO, Mark Farmer and HTA Architects partner, Mike De’Ath. B...

Case Studies

West Midlands Combined Authority Advanced Manufacture in Construction Roadmap

West Midland Combined Authority (WMCA) set out a bold ambition to place Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) at the h...

Key Industry Resources

Climate Change & Carbon

The built environment is estimated to contribute to approximately 40% of the UK’s total carbon footprint, and the con...

Reports

Later Living: Widening Choice In The Housing Market

The Later Living Market has the potential to transform a large part of the housing sector due to its cyclical nature....

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BBC Breakfast: Ilke Homes & Places For People Announce The Largest Ever Modular Housing Deal

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Podcasts

Modern Methods of Construction Series – Episode 2

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Construction Leadership and Transforming Construction

Spearheaded by the Construction Leadership Council, the government have called for more sustainable and cost-effectiv...

Reports

Build to Rent: Innovating Tenure & Construction

Build to Rent is a key driver in the use of Modern Methods of Construction. With purpose-built housing often forming ...

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Community & Strategic Land incl Regeneration

The housing deficit has highlighted the immediacy for local planning authorities and developers to find space to buil...

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Modern Methods Of Construction & Policy

The UK government has recognised the need for Modern Methods Of Construction in order to drive the economy and develo...

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Later Living

An increasing proportion of the population now live into old age in the UK, yet there is a shortage of suitable housi...

Case Studies

Kitchener Barracks

Kitchener Barracks is a landmark residential scheme in Chatham, Kent which has showcased the potential to use Categor...

Podcasts

Modern Methods of Construction Series – Episode 6

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Cast helps launch PRISM 2.0

On behalf of the Mayor of London, Cast launched the world’s first open-source city level digital design configurator ...

Reports

Cast Leads Report For National Housing Federation On Affordable Housing Funding Cycles

In collaboration with Harlow consulting and commissioned by the National Housing Federation, Cast has written a repor...

Podcasts

Modern Methods of Construction Series – Episode 3

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Cast And NHBC Foundation Publish Research On Latest MMC Use In UK Homebuilding

NHBC Foundation, supported by Cast Consultancy have published a research paper showcasing where the UK home building ...

Reports

Cast Publishes New Post Covid-19 Market Overview

The COVID-19 crisis has posed new and unprecedented challenges in the construction sector that are still being seen t...

Reports

The Rental Space Race – The Commercial Impact Of Amenities In Build To Rent Schemes In The UK

Flats built in clusters and designed specifically for rent are part of a growing sector in the UK, and many developer...

Podcasts

Modern Methods of Construction Series – Episode 5

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Mark Farmer, CEO of Cast, chats to Adam Parsons on Sky News about Carillion

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Key Industry Resources

Purpose Built Student Accommodation

The numbers of students applying for university has increased by 3.2% year-on-year in the past 5 years in the UK, acc...

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Construction Skills

The implementation of new technologies and techniques in the industry calls for a workforce with an advanced skillset...

Videos

Mark Farmer, CEO of Cast, discussing Carillion and the construction industry on Sky News

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Affordable Homes

A report released by the National Housing Federation highlighted that the UK needs 340,000 new homes every year, incl...

Podcasts

Modern Methods of Construction Series – Episode 7

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Co-Living

Co-living models are being explored increasingly by local authorities and private developers as a way of remedying ho...

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Manufacturing / Supply Chain

Under the Construction Sector Deal, the government and the construction sector have aligned to introduce digital tech...

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Private Sale

Private property sales soared during the latter half of 2020 and onwards in the UK, and developers and organisations ...

Case Studies

Plot N06 East Village

This landmark development lies at the heart of the growing East Village masterplan at the site of the former 2012 Ath...

Case Studies

Urbanest Vauxhall Purpose Built Student Accommodation

This prominent purpose-built student accommodation development in the heart of the Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea regen...

Case Studies

Auriens Chelsea

Auriens Chelsea is an ambitious, market-leading later living development located in the heart of London. The client v...

Reports

Cast provides UK Green Building Council With Commercial Analysis

This report provided by UK GBC provides findings into the real-world implications and ramifications when providing ne...

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Verified by Cast

Verified by Cast is standardised quality assurance benchmark for proven building systems and supply chain.

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PMV Estimator

Cast has pioneered the use of Pre-Manufactured Value (PMV) as a key industry metric for measuring progress towards modernisation and better outcomes.

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PRISM 2.0

Is the world’s first open source city level digital design configurator tool for early stage MMC consideration on sites.

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MMC Definition Framework

A gateway to understanding how to apply different types of MMC in the residential market.

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