COMMENT high number of skilled craftspeople onsite.


Prefabricated solutions reduce the need for skilled labour onsite as systems are cut and bonded in controlled manufacturing facilities. Not only does this ensure quality and consistency of product, it eliminates the need for lengthy assembly onsite. As prefabricated systems are made in a manufacturing environment, these conditions offer more control than traditional trades onsite. This level of quality control means products can be easily verified and made in a standardised way. This translates into better performance guarantees for specifiers – and a higher performing system that functions well for years to come.


The same finish every time Moreover, the uniformity that is essential to brickwork designs can run the risk of being compromised if offsite solutions are not employed. With modular construction, replication simply isn’t an issue. Taking the construction of complex brick features offsite into factory-controlled conditions, drives the level of quality and consistency that is needed to achieve excellence and reduces the need for skilled craftspeople onsite, who are a growing rarity in the current house building climate. Brick’s popularity will certainly flourish in the coming years considering there are systems which now make it far easier to create sophisticated brick patterns. These systems provide all the traditional aesthetic benefits in a modern solution, offering limitless creative potential for housebuilders. With this union, brick will certainly be a building material that is here to stay.


Scott Denham is sales director at IG Masonry Support


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