Welcome to Vistry Innovation Centre (VIC) at Vistry Works factory in Bardon!
The VIC is a unique, sector-leading facility incorporating cutting-edge technologies that will be used to help meet the company’s net zero ambitions as well as the delivery of the Future Homes Standard coming into operation in 2025.
Constructed using 18 different trades and 54 suppliers, the VIC features over 100 different products and smart technologies, providing visitors with the opportunity to witness all the different stages of construction and to learn about the wealth of progressive products the company is using both now and in the future to achieve carbon reduction on its roadmap to net zero by 2040.
As well as delivering high-quality new homes more economically, efficiently and sustainably, Vistry Works will also have a positive socio-economic impact, boosting local job creation, with 17 of the site’s new starters living within a 10-mile radius (49% of the current workforce) and with plans to create an additional 60 new factory jobs in 2024.
Vistry Works will deliver thousands of open panel frames for new homes at Vistry locations around the country, being built with partners including housing associations and local authorities.
Launched in July 2023, Vistry Works is one of the largest timber frame construction facilities in the UK.
The 356,000 sq ft facility, combined with Vistry’s additional two factories in Warrington and Leicester, has the capacity to deliver over 7,000 homes per annum using pre-manufactured 2D structural systems (category 2), creating a strong strategic asset for the group to deliver MMC at scale.
Councillor Richard Blunt, Leader of North West Leicestershire District Council, said:
“It was fascinating to visit the Vistry facility and see the innovation there in action. Their work links with ours in two key ways - we need good quality homes in our country, and they are committed to the Future Homes Standard, and they are thinking about every possible way to make homes more energy efficient at every stage, which is absolutely the way forward and ties in well with our zero carbon ambitions for North West Leicestershire.”