{"id":63650,"date":"2019-09-24T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=63650"},"modified":"2019-09-23T12:56:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:56:41","slug":"the-offsite-construction-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/the-offsite-construction-survey\/63650\/","title":{"rendered":"The Offsite Construction Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the success of our Construction Industry Brexit Survey<\/a>, PBC Today has launched a survey to discover whether offsite construction can deliver its promises<\/h2>\n

We\u2019re launching the Offsite Construction Survey to delve a little deeper into the future of offsite.<\/p>\n

This comes as Modern Methods of Construction<\/a> are put firmly under the spotlight with the likes of offsite manufacturing and prefabrication touted as\u00a0\u2018game-changers\u2019 in the industry.<\/p>\n

Not only is the industry sitting up and paying attention to offsite, but so too is the UK Government.<\/p>\n

The House of Lords science and technology committee released a report in 2017<\/a> titled \u2018Off-site manufacture for construction: Building for change\u2019. Within this report it detailed a plethora of benefits offsite construction could bring to meet the UK\u2019s housing target. However, it noted that despite the advantages, the take-up of offsite manufacture was lagging.<\/p>\n

So, where are we now?<\/p>\n

In an industry battling skills shortages and productivity issues, could offsite techniques pose the answer to our woes? Or does it fail to hit the mark?<\/p>\n

You can take the Offsite Construction Survey\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The closing date for responses is 25 October and we will have a full analysis of the results in the November edition of PBC Today.<\/p>\n