TALO Appoints Sector Lead as Part of Expansion into Affordable Housing
Offsite housing specialist TALO has appointed Sam Kinver-Wrigley as Registered Provider Sector Lead to deepen its engagement with local authorities and housing associations across the UK.
This is a new role focused on building relationships and collaborations to help address the housing crisis and accelerate the delivery of ultra-low energy homes. It is part of TALO’s mission-driven approach to contribute to raising the standard of affordable housing in the UK and to eradicate fuel poverty.
In his new role, Sam will be building systems and processes to develop detailed market analysis to inform TALO’s business strategy and its housebuilding solutions for affordable housing. He will be working with social housing providers to develop opportunities for their housing pipeline and projects to unlock brownfield sites in areas of high deprivation. This will enable TALO to deliver genuine and practical solutions in communities with the most pressing housing needs.
Sam has over 15 years of project and programme management experience, having held senior consultant roles at global professional services businesses, Mace and Turner & Townsend.
He brings a depth of knowledge to TALO gained from working on complex construction projects across the built environment – infrastructure, schools, data centres for tech giants, and affordable housing developments, as well as major housing retrofit programmes. This has included managing programmes of 25+ affordable housing sites and leading a 750-home local authority retrofit programme for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
As well as having specialist experience in contract administration, Sam has worked directly with local authorities and housing providers navigating the full complexity of social housing delivery – from site geology and contaminated brownfield sites to planning, funding structures and environmental constraints.
At TALO, Sam will be building systems and processes to generate deep market intelligence, identifying where the affordable housing need is greatest and how TALO’s solutions are best deployed to maximise social value. This analysis will directly inform business strategy and help TALO to target the right scale of development, sites and partners to deliver more affordable, higher-quality homes in areas of deprivation across the UK. He will also be applying his rigorous programme and risk management experience to complex, multi-stakeholder schemes and the masterplans that TALO is now working on.
Bengt Magnussen, Co-founder and Executive Director for Commercial at TALO:
“Sam joins TALO at a really exciting time in our growth. He has spent his career working alongside the very organisations we are looking to partner with – local authorities and housing providers.
He fully appreciates the scale of the housing crisis and the challenges the sector is facing – from funding complexities and budget pressures to assessing brownfield and contaminated sites for development.
Sam will be instrumental in developing new partnerships that allow TALO to bring our solutions to the areas and communities where they are needed most.”
Commenting on his appointment, Sam said:
“The housing crisis is one of the most pressing and persistent problems in this country. Too many families are living in substandard homes with unmanageable energy bills – and worse, in unacceptable and unsuitable temporary accommodation.
Having spent many years working on affordable housing programmes for housing providers, I have seen at first-hand the challenge of getting homes built to the standard people deserve, and homes that don’t simply perpetuate the issue of fuel poverty.
TALO’s approach redefines the solution to the housing and cost-of-living crises – to deliver homes that perform far beyond current standards, are genuinely affordable to both develop and live in, and that treat residents with the dignity and respect they deserve.
With TALO’s first UK factory due to start manufacturing in early 2027, this is a genuinely exciting time to join the journey. The business has a demonstrable track record of project delivery and is now scaling with real purpose and momentum. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to contribute to the next phase in TALO’s growth and to make a real difference to our local communities.”
TALO’s housing solutions – offsite timber superstructure, lightweight foundation system and whole house energy strategy – deliver ultra-low energy homes in less time and with cost parity.