11 Nov Off-site construction to be used for a third of new homes within the next decade?
More and more people, companies and institutions are asking the question can we speed up the time and hassle of building new properties.
Modern methods of construction are all about taking as much of the hard work away from cold, wet building sites as possible. Instead of struggling to construct brick and block layers and working from a set of plans in all kinds of weather, much of the process is moved under cover, into an environment where the structure of a house can be built with greater speed and to engineering standards.
Which does beg the question: why aren’t all houses built this way? Why are the majority of new homes, schools, office blocks etc in this country still built on site?
The main drivers and the momentum towards these modern methods of construction are quality combined with predictability.
That’s a very appealing prospect for many people, compared with a typical on-site self build where the finished date is always “a few months away” !
The Telegraph quotes Adam Challis, head of residential research at property and investment firm J L L ; “I expect off-site construction to be used for a third of new homes within the next decade, currently, the figure is less than 10 per cent but, to meet the huge demand for new homes, it will have to be adopted to a much higher degree.”
Michael Low of TCC very much agrees with Adam Challis and could conceive this figure being considerably higher, especially for affordable homes.
Watch this space…
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