Taylor Lane
Timber Frame Ltd has been awarded a contract by Lovell, part of UK construction
and regeneration group Morgan Sindall Group plc, to provide timber frame kits
for 450 new homes for service personnel and their families, relocating from
Germany to Wiltshire as part of the Army Basing Programme (ABP).
The Salisbury
Plain Service Family Accommodation (SFA) Scheme is one of the company’s
largest-ever projects and will see Taylor Lane Timber Frame design, manufacture
and deliver timber frame kits for erection on two of the three sites, Bulford
and Larkhill.
The
Hereford-based manufacturer is supplying its 140mm timber frame system with
pre-insulated panels for three and four bedroom detached and semi-detached
houses and bungalows. Construction is underway on the first service
family accommodation site at Bulford.
Lovell is
working to complete 917 homes by May 2020, with Taylor Lane handing over 13
plots per week. Lovell major projects director, John Leary, says,
“Intelligent selection in supply chain assembly is essential in a project of
this magnitude. This stands across the trades but is clearly crucial on
key packages such as timber frame. The speed of build on the SFA scheme
means that timber frame and thus an element of off-site manufacture was a
given, but the choice of provider is the challenging piece.
“After
an extensive selection process considering the country’s leading providers, we
elected to partner with Taylor Lane. We have worked successfully with
Taylor Lane in the past and have only a positive history. Importantly we
have been entirely comfortable working together in a very open and transparent
manner, developing design solutions and fashioning the technical and commercial
package over a series of months.
“With
a company of this stature and credential exhibiting such a
supportive/collaborative approach, we are extremely confident in our ability to
deliver the timber frames to programme, across each site.”
