The Big Build at OFFSITE2007
Key to OFFSITE2007 is The Big Build: a large outdoor area filled with full-scale real buildings and exhibits, and a demonstration area where innovative technologies and intelligent systems will be on show.
See just how big The Big Build is in our photo-blog
Major features of The Big Build include:
- Full scale examples of housing and education buildings constructed by modern methods, ie off-site manufactured systems and innovative on-site construction methods, from
- Re-thinking - a section of a new school, using prefabricated solid timber panels
- Hanson - masonry house using factory-assembled cavity wall system
- Osborne - already complete, pushes the boundaries of sustainable affordable housing
- ecoTECH - high quality, low energy Swedish sustainable home
- Stewart Milne - a pair of four-storey timber-framed near zero carbon houses (level 5 of Code)
- Kingspan - sustainable house aiming for level 6 of the new Code for Sustainable homes
- Spaceover - volumetric solution, units from a 'live' project in Harlow
- Sustainable technologies – recycled building products and sustainable building materials; new products from natural resources and application of industrial by-products for construction.
- Smart technologies – control systems and sensors for monitoring; and intelligent technologies for whole building communication.
Learn more about the key building projects in The Big Build area from the links above. Follow the progress of these innovative buildings with our photo blog, and book your tickets now to make sure you get a chance to see the completed buildings at the show.