<p><span>Barratt is opening a new timber frame factory in the East Midlands as it aims to scale up its offsite construction to meet the Future Homes Standard in 2025.</span></p><p><span>The announcement follows Barratt’s purchase of timber frame manufacturer Oregon in 2019, with the volume housebuilder aiming to become carbon neutral in its operations by 2030 while using offsite as a way to grow the business.</span></p><p><span>This summer, Oregon will move from Burton-upon-Trent to a 186,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Derby, allowing Barratt to increase the number of homes it builds using timber frame. </span></p><p><span>With a £45 million investment in the factory, Barratt said the move would generate an additional 170 jobs, taking the total number of local people employed to 200.</span></p><p><span>It also said that building more of its homes off site - as well as allowing it to meet the Future Homes Standard - would mean it could cut carbon emissions, reduce waste and lessen the disruption caused to local communities. The approach would also help conquer the industry’s skills shortage, it added.</span></p><p><span>And it claimed that using a timber frame system meant cutting build time on a scheme by an average of five weeks.</span></p><p><span>By 2030, Barratt is aiming to build at …