{"id":143300,"date":"2024-08-30T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=143300"},"modified":"2024-08-28T15:04:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T14:04:11","slug":"revolutionising-housing-true-modular-building-at-mbis-world-of-modular-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/revolutionising-housing-true-modular-building-at-mbis-world-of-modular-europe\/143300\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionising housing with True Modular Building at MBI’s World of Modular Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Netherlands faces a similar housing crisis to the UK- and modular building could solve both countries’ crisis and reduce sustainability to boot<\/h2>\n

True Modular Building<\/a> (TMB) specialises in crafting attainable, eco-friendly, and comfortable build-to-rent (BTR) housing with modern designs and customisable features, ensuring that residents feel at home both today and tomorrow. Their core belief centers around sustainable smart hybrid construction, where they use raw materials sparingly and leverage their distinct attributes like strength and adaptability to create residential homes.<\/p>\n

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Carel van Duuren, founder of True Modular Building, is an industry veteran with expertise across engineering, developing, patented technology, business development, CEO and CFO experience and starting companies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Carel van Duuren, founder and CEO at TMB and speaker at the upcoming World of Modular Europe<\/a> in Brussels, Belgium, has a long history in the building industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrue Modular Building is a spin-off and evolution of my previous companies and expertise in volumetric and modular manufacturing,\u201d says van Duuren. \u201cWith the companies Kessel Rental and NxtGen Smart Modular Building, I started with developing kitchens for universities, businesses, conventions and events. This evolved into dismountable container kitchens, which then led me to wonder: How can I make the ideas behind this system more sustainable and repeatable for residential buildings and\/or affordable housing?\u201d<\/p>\n

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One of True Modular Building’s core principles is the use of its proprietary flexible building system, Orange Kit: a configurable platform capable of delivering a diverse range of building types with unique architectures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Scarce housing and rising carbon emissions present challenges<\/h3>\n

\u201cI have been following the global housing crisis for a couple of years,\u201d says van Duuren. \u201cThe common factor is that a decent home is too expensive and that there are just not enough affordable homes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Dutch housing sector, for example, is experiencing considerable strain by a combination of high demand and a scarcity of affordable homes. This has been a contributing factor to the significant surge in house prices within the Netherlands, placing it among the highest in the European Union.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuilding land in the Netherlands is scarce. The permit procedures are long, there are many regulations and parties involved, and there is a lot of citizen participation (NIMBYism) which delays the process.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, says van Duuren, the building sector faces multiple operational challenges<\/a> including escalating raw material costs, labor shortages, and an increasingly critical environmental issue: greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n

\u201cGlobally, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions is energy consumption and 40% of this energy is consumed within buildings. An industrialised modular construction approach, noted for its efficiency and potential to reduce emissions will address both the housing and reducing CO2 emissions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire construction industry is faced with an urgent challenge of enhancing productivity and sustainability,\u201d says van Duuren. \u201cConventional on-site construction projects waste significant resources such as time and materials, which negatively affects productivity.<\/p>\n

In addition, \u201cthe building industry faces many problems such as slow speeds, growing labor shortage, skills scarcity, high costs, and the inability to scale and\/or reluctancy to use industrial approaches or new materials.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The potential of industrialisation and MMC<\/h3>\n

\u201cIndustrialised modular construction has the potential to enhance efficiency and productivity in the construction sector,\u201d says van Duuren, \u201capproaching the practices in the manufacturing sector.\u201d<\/p>\n

Van Duuren has identified a number of trends that support his thinking. According to him:<\/p>\n