Starting next issue, the CM website will be charting the progress of Boklok’s first UK development - from the perspective of Avebury International, the project’s construction manager.

Popularly known as ‘flatpack’ housing because of the factory processes central to its design and construction, Boklok was pioneered in Sweden by IKEA and Skanska.

In May this year, the Swedish firm was granted planning permission for a development in St James Village in Gateshead.

Gavin Skelly, a regional construction manager with Avebury, will be providing regular updates from the north-east site. In the first phase, 36 flats will be developed with a second phase comprising a further 117 homes, including the Boklok terraced house, to follow.

Skelly says Avebury will implement a ‘localised’ approach to the project’s delivery with all work packages awarded to north-eastern firms. It’s the way Avebury always works, its managing director, Rod McGillivray, told CM in January: ‘Local supply chain management reduces overall costs.’

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Construction Manager

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