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businesses, with the need to adapt Barratt’s existing housing models to incorporate the new system. The erection process took just nine days, with only five men on site. The trial was one of the smallest jobs the


company has completed in its 16-year history, but by successfully demonstrating how a supply chain can be adapted to suit a much faster, safer and more cost-effective method of building, it will potentially be its most significant.


OPPORTUNITIES In 2015 The Housing Forum issued a report, More Homes Through Manufacture, exploring how modern methods of construction could deliver more, better quality homes. In his closing remarks, Working Group chair Jim Martin commented on the numerous advantages OSM can bring to housebuilding in the UK, including the “Improved energy performance of buildings through enhanced specification and controlled factory processes.” The opportunities presented by OSM are


vast, and with proper integration into the housebuilding supply chain, could go a significant way to towards reducing the UK’s critical housing shortage.


Robert Clark is head of business development at Fusion Building Systems


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