A new report has been published, jointly authored by Cast CEO, Mark Farmer and HTA Architects partner, Mike De’Ath. Both are long term industry colleagues and passionate advocates of modernising homebuilding through the use of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) including modular techniques.
Their paper sets out a bold ambition to seize on the opportunities presented by COVID-19 recovery, with plans to accelerate the role modular homebuilding plays in the future as part of a much more strategic approach to nurturing and mainstreaming the manufactured housing market.
The vision in the report sets out the potential to create a sector capable of delivering 75,000 new build homes every year within a decade through a series of interlinked, long term interventions by Government and its agencies, coordinating demand stimulation alongside responsible capacity building.
At its heart is the call for more tenure diversity to allow deeper market absorption combined with a new modular homebuilding national integration platform capable of aggregating and coordinating the market at scale such that clients and manufacturers can combine and collaborate in one place. This would encourage a move towards more unified design and technical standards, quicker and larger data and evidence collection and the building of confidence in underwriting markets.
