Engineering giant will use firm to help councils build low-cost homes on brownfield sites
Atkins has launched a subsidiary to provide social housing on disused brownfield sites using offsite construction.
The engineering giant aims to use Edaroth to give councils and other landowners the ability to deliver homes for rent on otherwise difficult-to-use brownfield sites.
Edaroth – an acronym for everyone deserves a roof over their head – plans to make use of the steel frame MetroHome system that Atkins launched last year for council projects.
The firm said that there were 250,000 hectares of available brownfield sites in the UK, with the potential to house a million people.
Mark Powell, managing director of Edaroth and MetroHome, said that delivering social housing required “innovation and positive disruption”.
“Our approach allows us to deliver social housing where it’s needed most by transforming brownfield land to bring forward much-needed housing developments which benefit from existing infrastructure, utilities and services.”
Edaroth is currently delivering a pilot scheme for Lambeth council.
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