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Houseproud [Practices and strategies of leading UK housebuilders on Offsite-MMC]
journal contribution
posted on 2010-10-13, 14:07 authored by Wei Pan, Alistair Gibb, Andrew DaintyRecent government-backed reports have suggested that Modern Methods of
Construction (MMC) are crucial to the solution for addressing the under-supply of
housing and wide concerns over the need to improve performance. The great bulk of
MMC is actually offsite technologies. This article reports on the practices and strategies
of the top 1002 housebuilders regarding the use of Offsite-MMC. This survey revealed
the top 100 firms’ perspectives on barriers and opportunities affecting the likely future
uptake of Offsite-MMC and investigated the current Offsite-MMC applications of the
large housebuilders. The study combined face-to-face and telephone interviews with a
postal questionnaire survey, which yielded an overall response rate of 36%. The
responding firms together contribute more than 30% of the total UK housing unit
completions.
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Citation
PAN, W., GIBB, A.G.F. & DAINTY, A.R.J., 2005. Houseproud. Offsite Construction (OCS) Magazine, Winter 2005, pp.20-22.Publisher
McClelland PublishingVersion
- NA (Not Applicable or Unknown)
Publication date
2005Notes
This article is closed access.Publisher version
Language
- en