Offsite’s time has come

Closed panel timber frame units

A trial started 18 months ago is looking at technology that has the potential to monitor safe social distancing, says Stewart Milne’s Stewart Dalgarno

The global pandemic will have a wide-reaching impact on us all. It is difficult to see how any industrial sector will come through this unscathed and without re-examining how to do things differently. What will be important is that we emerge stronger and more resilient, and open to new and innovative ways of working.

As more of the house building industry returns to work, sites re-open, and companies re-examine their business strategies and models, it will become even more important to embrace new technologies and processes to ensure the restart and development of the sector is done in a way that it can thrive long term.

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