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22 CASE STUDY The joy of modular


Joymount in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, is a 40-home social and affordable housing development under construction for Clanmil Housing Association. Raymond Millar, construction director at contractor The McAvoy Group, explains how the company embraced modern methods of construction to reduce the build programme by around 60 per cent.


Clanmill Housing Association is set to provide 40 new affordable and social homes for rent to the area using a new offsite housing solution. When completed, Joymount will provide eight one- and two-bedroom apartments for “couples and families,” 17 two-bedroom apartments for older people, three detached bungalows, and 12-two bedroom family homes. Each element in this mix of tenures has been specifically designed to fit its intended resident type, and to be future- proofed to meet changing needs. Designed by Knox Clayton Architects and


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constructed by The McAvoy Group, the new homes are being manufactured and fitted out at the Group’s production centre in Lisburn, which is on the other side of Belfast from Carrickfergus, to the south west. The project is said by McAvoy to be the


first offsite affordable housing scheme constructed in Northern Ireland, and according to the firm, the company’s housing solution will reduce the build programme by around 60 per cent to 40 weeks. The £4.7m contract is being delivered as


a single phase, following the manufacture of the apartments and houses at the Group’s Lisburn Factory, with the apartment modules arriving onsite first.


GETTING STARTED The McAvoy Group, based further west in Dungannon, has been providing offsite solutions and interim modular buildings for nearly 50 years, and as such was well- placed to undertake the project – though Joymount is the company’s first offsite residential scheme. According to Raymond Millar, construc- tion director at the Group, Clanmil Housing Association reached out to the company to “explore how offsite construction could be used to deliver new housing more efficiently, and in less time.” He continued: “McAvoy had designed a prototype house at its factory in Lisburn, which was very similar to the standard house types that are developed by Clanmil, so there was a good fit.” Millar says the key driver for the project


was to cut the waiting list for affordable housing locally – sharing the rest of the


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ocated adjacent to a Northern Ireland conservation area, the Joymount development for


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