Highwood Group has used H+H's Thin Joint system of large format aircrete blocks and quick-drying Celfix Mortar to meet a tight programme for the construction of a specialist care home and six assisted living bungalows.<br> <br> The three-storey care home is built in an arc around landscaped gardens on the site of a former dairy. H+H's Thin Joint construction enabled the 80-bedroom care home to be completed within a 60 week build programme.<br> <br> "We'd moved away from timber frame and we were looking for new ideas that would give us surety of programme and we felt sure that thin joint would do just that," says Steve Matthews, site manager for Highwood Group.<br> <br> Thin Joint blocks were used to construct the inner skin of the load-bearing external cavity walls. H+H says that the 610mm long, 210mm high, 140mm wide Jumbo Plus blocks helped speed construction and enabled the hollowcore, precast concrete planks that form the building's intermediate floors to be installed directly on to the wall's inner leaf before the external brickwork had been completed. 100mm wide Thin Joint was also used to construct the internal walls. <br> <br> www.hhcelcon.co.uk