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Keep up to dateBy Hamish Champ2018-07-19T09:30:00
House of Lords Science & Technology committee report calls for ‘strong leadership’ from the Construction Leadership Council
Out-dated and unsustainable business models are hampering the take-up of off-site manufacturing in the construction industry, thwarting the government’s ambition to build 300,000 homes a year by 2020, according to a new report.
Peers on the House of Lords’ Science & Technology Committee highlighted in the report – ‘Offsite Manufacture For Construction: Building For Change’ –what they called “the benefits [it offered] in creating better-quality buildings and infrastructure, produced to more consistent and testable standards”.
The committee said it heard evidence that off-site manufacturing (OSM) could increase productivity in the sector by up to 70%, but it also found that the industry’s take-up of OSM was both varied across the sector and limited in scope.
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