MFS & Industry News
Offsite Awards Finalist for Best Use of Concrete Technology
MFS announced as Offsite Awards Finalists in Best Use of Concrete Technology Category Our shortlisted entry with the Masonry Frame Systems i-Form Solution In 2019 we commenced trademarking our build method as the MFS i-Form solution, our P-DfMA approach to MMC. Design > Platform choice > Offsite Manufacture [...]
Offsite Awards Finalist for Contractor of the Year
MFS announced as Offsite Awards Finalists for Contractor of the Year 2020 Our shortlisted entry The MFS i-Form Solution is the captive name of Masonry Frame Systems' structural build method and approach to P-DfMA, incorporating floors, walls, roofs to form the structural envelope. MFS were founded in 2004, [...]
Robert Pointer awarded RICS Fellowship
Robert Pointer awarded RICS Fellowship MFS are proud to announce that Robert Pointer, our Commercial Director and Co–founder, has been awarded his RICS Fellowship. Rob has been a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors for some years now and achieved his Chartered status in 1990. Over the [...]
SECBE Blog: Offsite Finalist
MFS are pleased to be an Offsite SECBE Awards 2020 finalist. The SECBE blog The MFS i-Form Solution is Masonry Frame Systems' structural and component-based build method, incorporating floors, walls, roofs that are manufactured offsite and assembled onsite to form the complete structural envelope of a building. A platform approach to DfMA & [...]
SECBE Blog: Health, Safety and Wellbeing SECBE Awards 2020 finalist
MFS are pleased to be a Health, Safety and Wellbeing SECBE Awards 2020 finalist. The SECBE blog At the centre of this submission is a new (to the UK) masonry block system called the Xella Silka Element system. Working in close partnership with Xella GmbH , Masonry Frame Systems [...]
MFS COVID-19 Secure working practices and RAMS
COVID-19 Secure Sites, MFS can still maintain 100% Productivity, 200% Quicker and 20% Cheaper - and here's how.. Several industry experts are currently questioning, ‘Does social distancing reduce productivity?’ – in many cases this will be so. Traditional methods will not be able to maintain ‘normal’ resource levels and [...]
COVID-19 statement, open letter and continuing services
COVID 19 – MFS Trading and continuing services statement from Norman Hinckes, MD. We at Masonry Frame Systems Ltd have been closely monitoring the Government guidelines over recent days regarding the COVID-19 outbreak and the unprecedented impact this is having both at home and abroad. The Health, Safety and [...]
Platform DfMA first private sector project
Platform DfMA – a componentised approach to construction – is getting its first private sector run-out on a London office job. Read the full article >> Landsec, one of the UK’s largest commercial property developers, is working with integrated design practice Bryden Wood on a London office [...]
P-DfMA, component based approach from Mace Tech
The P-DfMA construction method reshaping the London 2012 Athletes’ Village This article outlines how Mace Tech’s High Rise Solutions combines BIM, MMC and digital technology with an on-site, self-contained factory approach to reduce construction times while improving quality, to achieve some impressive results. The Jump Factory approach allowed Mace Tech [...]
MFS announced as finalists in the SECBE Awards 2020
MFS announced as finalists in the SECBE Awards 2020 in the Offsite and Health, Safety & Wellbeing categories We are pleased to announce that we submitted entries in two categories and have been shortlisted for both. Offsite CRITERIA: A number of factors are convening to make offsite construction a [...]