The Opportunities and Challenges of Modular Housing
We are currently in an environment where we have reduced tradespeople, coupled with housing shortage, together with the need to reduce our wet trades on-site. Hadley Group believe the future for modular housing is a bright one and has many of the answers.
With modular housing, a house can be built in a factory within very short timescales, making use of dry trades, whilst also delivering the modular solution on-site with minimal waste.
This is not an exaggeration, however the route to the final delivered product is challenging from many aspects, whether it be funding, accreditation, the supply chain link, or the pull and
push that exists within this complex process.
There will never be the complete removal of on-site skills as the site, foundations and groundwork activity will always need to be completed. Modular and offsite housing are growing and gradually solving many real world challenges. Gradually these solutions will be commonplace to ensure that the quality control and entire manufacture process becomes simpler. Working collaboratively, innovatively and in partnership is key to the success for all the parties involved.
Trends within Modular Housing
The government aims to build 300,000 homes per year by the mid-2020’s. Due to the flexible nature of steel framing for housing, modular houses can be built in a short turnaround.
As such, steel framing is becoming a rising trend within the residential sector and modular housing is perfectly placed as the perfect choice for homes of the future. This provides a wide scope for delivery and many market opportunities, however for offsite to be successful, the process requires all detail communicated and cascaded down through the supply chain at an early stage to ensure manufacturing efficiency.
Accreditation and most importantly, testing and validation of homes, are essential as they prove the homes are liveable and comfortable environments. This is critical to the long-term success of our products. There are significant projects and work already being undertaken and delivered using steel frame modular, with the careful timing and alignment of multiple projects creating pull and demand on manufacturing resources. When you combine projects, products and competing timescales it is critical to ensure that you have the right team working on the right projects at the right time – and with the correct data – this is key to success across the entire modular and offsite sector.
Hadley Group’s Steel Framing Solutions
Our steel framing solutions contain less carbon and are supplied as cut-to-length, we recycle any hole punchings, slots and cut-out aperture details. We ensure that products are supplied to optimised thicknesses and with all details created within our advanced manufacturing process. As the engineering detail is carried out ‘up front’ in the factory, this leads to less work on-site and minimises any adjustments on-site.
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