{"id":133949,"date":"2023-10-26T13:11:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T12:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=133949"},"modified":"2023-10-26T13:11:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T12:11:24","slug":"top-hat-chair-standardised-mmc-leaves-zero-chance-achieve-housing-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/top-hat-chair-standardised-mmc-leaves-zero-chance-achieve-housing-targets\/133949\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Zero chance&#8217; to achieving housing targets without MMC, says Top Hat chair on discussion of standardised MMC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Top Hat chair Carl Leaver spoke before the House of Lords on government plans for standardised MMC, housing targets and the skills shortage<\/h2>\n<p>The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities appointed a consortium in May to create standards for modular parts and buildings, as a method of driving innovation and promoting MMC in UK construction.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Tuesday 24 October, Top Hat chair Carl Leaver criticised the plans, saying that: &#8220;the government doesn\u2019t build houses, it\u2019s not the customer, so defining the design standards, how they\u2019re built, how they\u2019re transported\u2026 that\u2019s a centrally controlled economy \u2013 it\u2019s very surprising to be facing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to government plans, he warned that standardised MMC could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/transformative-technology-driven-increased-demand-for-mmc\/130056\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reduce the industry&#8217;s ability to evolve and innovate<\/a>: \u201cWe need a vibrant industry, an innovative industry that&#8217;s able to move at pace and fix problems and seek out further opportunities because we have a crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;Zero chance&#8221; of meeting housing targets without modular construction<\/h3>\n<p>Leaver also warned that due to the chronic shortage of skilled construction workers in the UK, there was no chance that housing targets would be met without modular&#8217;s production process.<\/p>\n<p>Category one MMC, which is where three-dimensional units are manufactured in a factory and transported and combined on site to create a home, was identified as being crucial to delivering housing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/bridging-the-affordable-housing-market-gap-through-mmc\/130456\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">without category one modular<\/a> there is absolutely zero chance of building 300,000 homes in this country \u2013 I mean zero,\u201d Leaver said bluntly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore the global financial crisis there were 2.6m employees in construction, today that is 400,000 less and of that, about 500,000 \u2013 so nearly 25% \u2013 are over 55&#8230;.These downturns are utterly devastating for SMEs and contractors,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<h3>More certainty is needed to actualise modular&#8217;s potential<\/h3>\n<p>Committee chair and Conservative peer Daniel Moylan asked about the lack of success in MMC, such as the high-profile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/ilke-homes-falls-into-administration-1150-jobs-lost\/129284\/\">failings of Ilke Homes<\/a> and L&amp;G, to which Leaver attributed to materials and groundworks costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can control everything in a factory, but when it hits sites, that\u2019s when things can go deeply awry,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen the wheels came off post-Covid and then more recently with the downturn, maybe both businesses made decisions to price very tightly to fill up their factory, and they didn\u2019t take account\u2026 of the period of super-inflation\u2026 which made the projects they were now committed to unprofitable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All these factors made firms more vulnerable to the challenging economic backdrop, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCritical to the success of modular is that we get to scale and we have highly automated facilities \u2013 neither Ilke nor L&amp;G were highly automated, incidentally [\u2026] if you have got scale and automation that means that these are really quite heavy investment and to pay back on those investments you need consistent demand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>The \u201cfrankly very slow and somewhat dysfunctional\u201d planning system had proven problematic<\/h3>\n<p>Michael Stirrop, chief commercial officer at housebuilder and Category 2 MMC (2D structural systems) developer Vistry Group, agreed with Leaver that the planning system was a significant constraint, with the implementation of the planning process at a local level proving problematic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very difficult for us to build standard-form houses across the UK on a consistent basis,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no impetus in the planning world to push forward MMC schemes over traditional brick and build\u2026 [and ] there isn\u2019t enough reflection on the embedded carbon that is attached to the houses we construct on an open panel basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The full committee meeting can be watched on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliamentlive.tv\/Event\/Index\/367733b2-abf3-443a-9f37-c7a3ea138365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">parliamentlive.tv&#8217;s archive<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Hat chair Carl Leaver spoke before the House of Lords on goverment plans for standardised MMC, housing targets and the skills shortage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[942],"tags":[276,572,916,627],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-133949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mmc-news","7":"tag-government","8":"tag-housebuilding","9":"tag-modern-methods-of-construction","10":"tag-modular-construction"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Zero chance&#039; 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