TY - CHAP
T1 - Optimising off-site manufacturing components in the UK house-building sector
T2 - understanding the legal and contractual issues
AU - Agapiou, Andrew
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Offsite Production and Manufacturing for Innovative Construction: People, Process and Technology on 11th July 2019, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781138550711.
PY - 2019/7/11
Y1 - 2019/7/11
N2 - There is an emerging consensus that the United Kingdom ( UK ) is presently facing a housing crisis, the root cause of which is predominantly down to the lack of provision of affordable housing (Helm, 2017; Ferrari, 2015 ). Calls for a change in approach, to the way the government meets the housing needs of its citizens, have seldom been more audible (Harris, 2018). One potential solution proffered due to its perceived success in other countries as a solution to their own housing crises and also due the significant role it had in the UK after World War II (Vale, 2013), is the construction of pre-fabricated homes using off-site manufactured components (Miles and Whitehouse, 2013). There is therefore a perceived need to adopt innovative and new construction practices to accelerate the rate of construction (NHBC, 2016).
AB - There is an emerging consensus that the United Kingdom ( UK ) is presently facing a housing crisis, the root cause of which is predominantly down to the lack of provision of affordable housing (Helm, 2017; Ferrari, 2015 ). Calls for a change in approach, to the way the government meets the housing needs of its citizens, have seldom been more audible (Harris, 2018). One potential solution proffered due to its perceived success in other countries as a solution to their own housing crises and also due the significant role it had in the UK after World War II (Vale, 2013), is the construction of pre-fabricated homes using off-site manufactured components (Miles and Whitehouse, 2013). There is therefore a perceived need to adopt innovative and new construction practices to accelerate the rate of construction (NHBC, 2016).
KW - housing
KW - UK
KW - affordable housing
KW - construction
UR - https://www.crcpress.com/Offsite-Production-and-Manufacturing-for-Innovative-Construction-People/Goulding-Rahimian/p/book/9781138550711
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781138550711
BT - Offsite Production and Manufacturing for Innovative Construction
A2 - Goulding, Jack
A2 - Rahimian, Farzad Pour
CY - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon
ER -