{"id":2568,"date":"2019-01-31T09:07:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T09:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2019-01-31T09:07:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T09:07:28","slug":"weston-opens-factory-to-make-lego-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/weston-opens-factory-to-make-lego-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Weston opens factory to make \u201clego homes\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weston has opened a new “house building factory” where home components will be stored and assembled in a similar way to a car production plant.<\/p>\n

The \u00a312m centre at Braintree contains 60,000 sqft of warehousing space and a 10,000 sqft manufacturing, assembly and quality-control workshop.<\/p>\n

Raw materials, goods and components can be freighted from suppliers around the world then stored and assembled at the plant before being sent on-demand to sites.<\/p>\n

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The storage centre holds the components required to build a house or apartment including flooring, cladding, wall tiles, paneling material, kitchen and bathroom components.<\/p>\n

Buyers choose their home finishes and the customised packs are sent to site with the factory able to supply up to 60\u00a0 homes a day,<\/p>\n

Bob Weston, Chief Executive of Weston Group says: \u201cThe new Braintree Logistics Centre is a highly advanced distribution and build-off-site centre and represents the future of the volume house building industry.<\/p>\n

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“Within the next 10 years technology will allow for new homes to be fully manufactured off-site by robots and computer-assisted engineering tools; customer specification choices fully automated; with factory-made components then built on-site using machines like a highly advanced lego-system.<\/p>\n

“This step change will help enhance site safety, quality control and automotive-like precision. Our blue-chip factory at Braintree is another pioneering part of the process.\u201d<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Tq3goU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weston has opened a new “house building factory” where home components will be stored and assembled in a similar way to a car production plant. The \u00a312m centre at Braintree contains 60,000 sqft of warehousing space and a 10,000 sqft manufacturing, assembly and quality-control workshop. Raw materials, goods and components can be freighted from suppliers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2569,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions\/2569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}