A committee of MPs is to examine the benefits of modern methods of construction (MMC) in a bid to boost housing supply as part of a new inquiry.
The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee will hear from industry and academics including Mark Farmer, CEO of Cast Consultancy and author of Modernise or Die, as well as Laing O’Rourke’s technical director, assets and manufacturing, Dr Chris Millard, during the hearings next week.
The government has set a target of 300,000 new homes each year and aims for one million to be built between 2017 and 2020. The session will examine the benefits of MMC and look at how it can boost the housing supply.
It will also look at how uptake of MMC could be increased, particularly with small- and medium-sized housebuilders and what barriers exist to preventing this. MPs will also ask how skills and recruitment within the industry can be improved to allow for greater adoption of MMC.
Other speakers set to appear during the hearing on 4 March include:
- Dr Chris Goodier, director, Centre for Innovative and Collaborative Construction Engineering, Loughborough University
- Victoria Pinoncely, former research manager, Centre for London
- Ben Derbyshire, president, Royal Institute of British Architects
- Ivan Harbour, senior partner, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
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Modern Methods of Construction in conjunction with Modern Materials of Construction could provide additional housing utilising labour from alternative trades,helping to offset traditional labour shortages.
All sectors of the industry need a more modern and collaborative approach to co-ordinate a scale up of a relatively young sector of construction.
At last! About 30 years ago I suggested to our son’s school that they build a Norwegian style wooden gym which would have cost about half the brick one and would have been built in less than half the time and would have lasted just as long as the brick one but they wouldn’t even consider it yet such constructions have lasted for hundreds of years. Sad really.
There are ‘instant houses’ on Internet that are also extremely well insulated so would reduce fumes from the products of combustion.
I’m looking forward to giving my views, info will be available here:
https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/housing-communities-and-local-government-committee/inquiries/parliament-2017/inquiry15/