{"id":50097,"date":"2018-12-11T15:39:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T15:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=50097"},"modified":"2018-12-11T15:39:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T15:39:18","slug":"lords-debate-offsite-manufacture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/lords-debate-offsite-manufacture\/50097\/","title":{"rendered":"Lords to debate report on offsite manufacture for construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The House of Lords will debate the Science and Technology Committee\u2019s report \u2018Offsite manufacture for construction: building for change\u2019 on 12 December<\/h2>\n<p>Among those listed to speak are several members of the Committee including\u00a0Lord Fox, Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-for-business-energy-and-industrial-strategy\">Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy<\/a> (BEIS), and\u00a0Lord Mair, Past President of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.org.uk\/\">Institution of Civil Engineers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The debate is being moved by\u00a0Lord Patel,\u00a0Chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/committees\/committees-a-z\/commons-select\/science-and-technology-committee\/\">Science and Technology Committee<\/a> and\u00a0Lord Henley, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy,\u00a0will respond on behalf of the Government.<\/p>\n<p>In its report published in July 2018, the Committee warned that\u00a0the construction sector as it currently operates cannot meet the UK\u2019s need for housing and may struggle to meet the need for infrastructure. Given that the UK already lags behind other countries in construction productivity, and is facing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/modular-construction-news\/skills-shortage-mmc\/47338\/\">skills shortage<\/a>, the Government and the construction sector must urgently find solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee said that offsite manufacture (OSM) can help to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/modular-construction-news\/construction-overhaul-to-meet-housing\/43666\/\">increase productivity in the construction sector<\/a> while reducing labour demands, improving the quality and efficiency of buildings, and reducing the environmental impacts associated with traditional construction.<\/p>\n<p>The report and the Government\u2019s response is available on the Committee\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/committees\/committees-a-z\/lords-select\/science-and-technology-committee\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The debate is expected to start after 3:30pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Lords will debate the Science and Technology Committee\u2019s report \u2018Offsite manufacture for construction: building for change\u2019 on 12 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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":[676,276,916,627,696],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mmc-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-government","9":"tag-modern-methods-of-construction","10":"tag-modular-construction","11":"tag-offsite-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>Lords to debate report on offsite manufacture for construction<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The House of Lords will debate the Science and Technology Committee\u2019s report \u2018Offsite manufacture for construction: building for change\u2019 on 12 December\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/lords-debate-offsite-manufacture\/50097\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lords to debate report on offsite manufacture for construction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The House of Lords will debate the Science and Technology Committee\u2019s report \u2018Offsite manufacture for construction: building for change\u2019 on 12 December\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/lords-debate-offsite-manufacture\/50097\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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