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The future construction ecosystem will be radically different. Companies that familiarize themselves with the next normal and move quickly will be best positioned to both create value and maintain their competitive edge. Looking ahead, up to 45 percent of incumbent value may be at stake in those parts of the market most heavily affected by shifts… 15 to 20 percentage points will be value up for grabs as a result of the cost savings and productivity gains generated by the shifts, with the benefits accruing to players or customers (in the form of price reductions or quality increase). A large share of value is expected to move from construction job-sites to off-site prefabrication facilities.

HOW DISRUPTION IS RESHAPING THE WORLD’S LARGEST ECOSYSTEM

McKinsey

June 2020

The construction industry has an opportunity to meet the growing need by becoming product driven and more efficient with increased productivity through automation and technology. A partnership between existing manufacturing or construction organizations and developers could effectively deliver modular products at scale Capacity to deliver a desirable, cost-effective, quality product…Modular products should be well-designed, sustainable, energy efficient, and well-suited to every aspect of urban living for the prospective end user A limited pool of qualified modular manufacturers…there are simply very few qualified modular building manufacturers for non-combustible construction.

A COLLECTION OF INSIGHTS ON SCALING MODULAR CONSTRUCTION

McKinsey

September 2019

It can be delivered more quickly than traditional construction…and has a positive impact on cash-flow. More of the build… is carried out under factory conditions so quality is consistent and defects can be minimised. As-built thermal performance is improved, producing more sustainable buildings and lower energy bills for residents. Advances in digital technologies, such as building information modelling (BIM), are delivering increasing efficiency and flexibility, creating manufacturing blueprints from architects’ designs. Planning and design are the smart ways to ensure speedy delivery

A GUIDE TO OVERCOMING CHALLENGES AND BARRIERS

The Housing Forum

September 2019

For decades, construction has lagged other sectors in productivity performance. Modular construction can cut schedules by 20–50 percent and costs by 20 percent. Labour dynamics and demand are at the top of the list of factors driving adoption of modular construction. 2-D panel systems optimize logistics and offer greater flexibility than 3-D modules. The industry is adopting new materials as well as digital technologies that enhance design capabilities and variability, improve precision and productivity in manufacturing, and facilitate logistics. Capturing the full cost and productivity benefits of modular construction requires mastering the challenges in design, manufacturing, technology, logistics, and assembly.

MODULAR CONSTRUCTION - from projects to products

McKinsey

June 2019

Today’s off-site manufactured homes are characterised by their high quality, precision engineering, digital design and eco-efficient performance, truly twenty-first century homes. Construction within a factory environment achieves quality control that ensures fast builds and lengthy life-spans. Off-site manufacturing offers the opportunity for ambitious job creation; it has the potential to be a new industrial sector…. Making homes in this way produces significant environmental benefits… Many favourable conditions are aligning in terms of proving the case that OSM can bridge the gap between what the traditional industry can deliver and what is needed. Independent experts have highlighted the superior quality of the finished product over conventionally built housing.

THE CONTRIBUTION OF OFF-SITE MANUFACTURED HOMES TO SOLVING THE

HOUSING CRISIS

LONDON ASSEMBLY

Aug 2017

Improved energy performance of buildings presents a win-win-win opportunity, reducing stress on the electricity network, offering bill savings and improving health and resilience outcomes for households and businesses. Capturing the full potential of on-site renewables could get detached and attached homes all the way to net zero energy …provide the regulatory certainty… to plan and invest time and effort in research and development to bring new technologies to market and deliver higher building energy performance at a lower cost. Maximise the potential for new construction to cost-effectively contribute to achieving a zero carbon goal, and prepare buildings built today for the 2050 zero-carbon environment in which they will ultimately be operating.

AN INDUSTRY LED PATHWAY TO A ZERO-CARBON READY BUILDING CODE

ASEBC, Climate Works

July 2018

Off-site construction can increase productivity, reduce time-scales and lower build costs compared with traditional construction The process of manufacturing components off-site can reduce waste, improve efficiency and productivity, and contribute to costs savings overall. Off-site construction offers the opportunity to use multi-skilled operatives in factories and on-site, which can be a more efficient and productive way of working. Clients predict a significant increase in the use of concrete.... over the next five years. Reducing the amount of time spent on-site minimises contractor risks and the construction process is less dependent on uncontrollable factors such as the weather. Transition towards greater use of robotics and 3D printing strongly underpins growth of off-site construction, and are enablers of effective DfMA.

BUILDING SKILLS FOR OFF-SITE CONSTRUCTION

Construction Industry Training Board

April 2017

To generate additional capacity in the sector, we need new business models, supported by new investment, and using new construction methods. This is essential to avoid putting additional pressure on the supply of skills (thereby inflating labour costs) and to overcome the factors which inhibit change, especially in the residential sector. The current pace and nature of technological change and innovation in wider society is such that unless the industry embraces this trend at scale, it will miss the greatest single opportunity to improve productivity and offset workforce shrinkage. The benefits case for cost, time, quality and predictability compared to traditional techniques…needs to be step-changed as a structural benefit for all parties… …the ultimate aim should be to foster in the medium term the creation of a sustainable domestic (housing market)…in addition to current ‘traditional’ new-housing output.

MODERNISE OR DIE - Time to decide the industry’s future

Construction Leadership Council

Oct 2016

What we can safely assume is that there is huge scope for cost-effective projects that would enhance …. productivity… Increasing productivity is construction’s great puzzle. It’s not that we don’t know how to do it – off-site construction for example – it’s often that we aren’t clear what each part of the industry has to do to create the conditions for success. Smart thinking about what blocks progress could be as important as the great ideas to improve productivity – particularly in fragmented industry segments such as housebuilding. Arming the construction industry for the future will connect ex-service men and women to management level careers in construction, ensuring their skills are not undervalued. As the OECD states, productivity is about working smarter, rather than working harder. Focus must be on embracing the wider productivity benefits that flow from creating a better, more fit-for-purpose built environment

CREATING A FRAMEWORK FOR THE INDUSTRY TO THRIVE

Chartered Institute of Building

May 2016

Off-site construction offers an alternative to…the current construction status-quo by promising transformational improvements across the asset life-cycle in time, cost, quality…but most importantly…offers predictability. …the fabrication, modularisation and standardisation of construction processes…within controlled factory environments…(is) a potential catalyst in meeting these challenges. Evidence suggests that time schedule savings of up to 60% are possible. The industry must acknowledge that innovation isn’t about doing things incrementally better, it’s also, and perhaps more fundamentally, about recognising when transformational changes to the existing model are required. By embracing off-site construction, we can pave the way for a more progressive, data- driven and predictable industry, boosting…profits…

HOW OFF-SITE MANUFACTURING CAN TRANSFORM OUR INDUSTRY

K P M G

May 2016

We need to build a lot more homes and we need to build differently to do so. We don’t pretend for one second that off-site technology is the only answer to solving the housing crisis, but it can play a much greater part and should be developed and nurtured. The resulting homes can be of a higher quality, more comfortable and warmer than traditionally constructed homes, and of course, built far more quickly. Off-site methods offer advantages in terms of speed of construction on site, quality of build, sustainability and reduced health and safety risks. In order to delivery anything like the number of homes needed, the housing industry must increase in size, not from importing workers to toil in muddy fields at low productivity levels, but by creating a functioning off-site manufacturing sector using a well-organised workforce making higher quality products.

HOW MODERN METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION CAN DELIVER MORE AND

BETTER-QUALITY HOMES

The Housing Forum

May 2015

The building envelope – the parts of a building that form the primary thermal barrier between interior and exterior – plays a key role in determining levels of comfort, natural lighting and ventilations, and how much energy is required to heat and cool a building. The construction of new buildings offers the best opportunity to deploy passive heating and cooling designs, which make use of energy-efficient building materials to minimise energy required for heating and cooling. Building envelope improvements can improve occupant comfort and the quality of life to millions of citizens, while offering significant non-energy benefits such as reduced health care costs and reduced mortality of “at risk” populations. Manufacturing building materials domestically (or regionally) creates jobs in local manufacturing and raw material supplies.

ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDING ENVELOPES

International Energy Agency - Paris

Dec 2013

The following international reports set out how technology can and should change the way houses are constructed, covering all aspects of MMC - productivity, off-site manufacturing, energy-efficiency, labour force & training. HAUS endorses these initiatives to transform the industry through digital technologies and reformed supply lines.
Summary and full reports are available to read and download on-line or a PDF can be requested by emailing us with the title(s).