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HOUSEBUILDER & DEVELOPER
Publisher Lesley Mayo
James Parker
FROM THE EDITOR
So, the Government’s new Housing Implementation Taskforce has had its first No. 10 meeting, chaired by the PM herself and including Phillip Hammond, and Sajid Javid, but no Dominic Raab. Although he has protested on social media that he was responding to an Urgent Question on fire safety in the Commons at the time, it’s still a pretty poor show given the scale of the housing challenge.
It’s no surprise that Theresa’s schedule could not have been moved by an hour however. Fresh from a mission to China to try and drum up good faith to do trade deals post-Brexit, she was about to descend into a two day ‘war cabinet’ to try and get her party’s ducks in a row on Brexit and bring the dissenters into line.
As a modular homes joint venture between Keepmoat and offsite specialist Elliott put it recently, in the context of building 300,000 homes, the skills shortage situation is currently “dire”. While cynics might accuse a firm pushing modular solutions of ‘they would say that wouldn’t they,’ this key new entrant is convinced that modular is the only solution to the delivery crisis.
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The elephant in the room for tackling the skills shortage is robotic construction of homes. While they are already used widely in factories, there have been sightings of robots putting up homes at startling speed in recent months. Not good news for staff across the supply chain, but if they’re not available anyway, something has to fill the gap.
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Last, but not least, if you are looking for innovative ideas for building homes using cutting-edge materials to get great results, you’d be wise to attend Materials for Architecture 2018. Held at the ILEC Conference Centre in London on 25 and 26 April, the conference features a range of academics and key firms in construction looking at application of materials from concrete to timber to copper. With several speakers focusing on the residential sector, it promises hearty food for thought.
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Many others agree, however is the Implementation Taskforce doing anything specifically to encourage modular solutions, which still face immovable competition from traditional solutions among naturally conservative housebuilders. The Accelerated Construction Programme formed last year following the Housing White Paper, but is it prioritising innovative modular solutions when it allocates chunks of its £
1.bn to buy up surplus public sector land?
When you look back and remember that a paltry 5,380 homes were built for social rent in 2016-17, the challenge is striking, and modular surely has to be a big part of the picture.
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