Keepmoat
has launched ILKE Homes, an offsite homes joint
venture with Elliott, the modular specialist.
This will contribute to the government’s housing supply targets through speed of
completion, lack of reliance on limited construction labour and the ability to
get around obstacles on stalled sites.

The hope is that it can accelerate estate regeneration, provide new
homes alongside existing buildings and unlock small infill sites. ILKE will
also provide homes that blend into both suburban and rural sites.  

On 10th May the company unveiled its pilot scheme of 60 units which are
being built at their Yorkshire factory.

They will be installed on five sites for five ‘key clients’ including a
mixture of housing associations, local authorities and Keepmoat’s own
housebuilding company, Keepmoat Homes.

Ambitious plans for affordable
housing construction 

The company are intending to manufacture over 750 affordable low-rise
homes per year within three years. The ability to install up to ten homes per
site per day can save as much as six months on a 50-home development.

The modules offer high performance two and three storey terraced or
semi-detached houses and flats with multiple variations, for the same cost as a
traditionally built home. The units will be quiet, airtight, super-insulated
and with running costs one third of the average UK home. 

An option to upgrade to zero carbon homes standard through the addition
of factory-installed solar photovoltaic panels will reduce running costs to as
little as £100 per year, less than one tenth of the average UK home.

LABC Warranty is working with ILKE Homes to ensure mortgageability can
be achieved using their 10 and 12 year structural warranties.

Standardisation and flexibility the key

Keepmoat CEO, Dave Sheridan, said “the 60 units would allow the company
to test the products at the installation and usability stages before
December, then it will embark on a bigger quantity of units next year.”

Elliott CEO, Lee Newman, added “The key to the success of any modular
solution is to have it fully designed for manufacture. What ILKE Homes does so
well is in combining that basic standardisation with sufficient flexibility to
meet landlord and market requirements, as well as the ability to blend in with
local architecture across the UK.”

Both Keepmoat Regeneration and Keepmoat Homes are committed to using the
ILKE Homes system, which will be available to housing associations, local
authorities and build-to-rent landlords through Keepmoat Regeneration and sold
to the public on Keepmoat Homes sites.

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