IKEA housing development steams ahead in UK

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From left to right Rod MacGillivray, Managing Director of Avebury, Alan Prole, Managing Director of Live Smart @ Home, and Councillor Malcolm Graham, Gateshead Council’s Cabinet Member with responsibility for Sustainable Communities, at the BoKlok site in

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August 15, 2007 Work has now begun on the first BoKlok "flat-pack housing" development at St James Village in Gateshead, UK. Previewed in Gizmag in May this year, the project aimed at delivering fast, affordable, energy efficient and stylish housing has just moved into its construction phase.

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