Under the new arrangement, separate panels of firms will be selected to deliver a variety of offsite housing projects across regions in England, Wales and Scotland.

Taken together LHC anticipates to offer potential work pipelines of £2bn as use of offsite construction takes off in the housing and student sectors.

Each new framework will also be split into four workstreams. These include: volumetric systems; panelised systems (open or closed panels); specialist high rise projects systems; and turnkey projects low rise.

LHC said the frameworks were aimed at delivering housing apartments, adaptive pods, student accommodation, care homes, room on the roof and temporary accommodation using offsite systems.

The new four-year set-up replaces a previous single national arrangement secured by seven specialist firms.

This includes many of the big players including: TExtraspace Solutions (UK), Module-AR, MTX Contracts, The McAvoy Group, Portakabin, Western Building Systems and Wernick Buildings.

Over 200 publicly funded organisations throughout the UK presently use LHC frameworks to procure works, goods and services to construct, refurbish and maintain social housing, schools and public buildings.

Firms have until 21 September to express an interest.

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