Speedy completion of Golding Homes £12.8m Maidstone scheme7th August 2012

Golding Homes has completed a £12.8 million housing development on the former council depot and Park and Ride site in Maidstone, Kent, providing 131 new homes for the area. Family-owned construction, civil engineering and property services firm Osborne is the contractor and Innovaré Systems supplied the i-SIPs panels for the scheme.

The development is a mix of affordable and market-priced homes consisting of flats and houses. The first site in Armstrong Road is made up of 96 homes, including two and three story terraced housing and a four storey block of flats. The second site in Enterprise Road consists of 35 homes, with a mix of two and three storey housing and a three storey block of flats.

All the buildings have been fitted with photovoltaic cells, water butts, composters, productive planting beds and communal bin stores, which has helped the development achieve a Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH) Level 4.

Pete Blunt, Managing Director of Innovaré Systems said: “Armstrong and Enterprise Road is Innovaré’s largest i-SIPs project to date, showing that this method of construction is suitable for medium as well as small scale developments. The onsite construction of the new homes using our i-SIPs took just 16 weeks to complete, with over 10,000m² of 162mm i-SIP panels for the construction of the external walls, 17,500m² of internal Open Panel Timber Frame partitions, 8,000m² of intermediate floor cassettes and over 5,000m² of trussed roof joists.

Paul Ensch, head of Osborne’s Homes team said: “This was a complex development across two sites that needed a coordinated approach to minimise disruption to the local area. By working with Innovaré and using i-SIPs we were able to significantly cut build times and deliver these properties to Golding Homes in a much shorter timeframe.”