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What is buildoffsite?
An industry-wide campaigning organisation that promotes greater uptake of offsite techniques by UK construction.
Buildoffsite is an alliance of clients, developers, designers, contractors, manufacturers, suppliers, government, advisors and researchers.
Why does buildoffsite exist?
The challenges facing UK construction are well known. A combination of growing demand, coupled with poor quality and a reducing skills base, has created a dilemma that will not be resolved without a "step change" in productivity and quality of build. The use of offsite techniques offers a potential solution to this dilemma. buildoffsite has been set up to promote this option.
What are the aims of buildoffsite?
offsite has long been seen as a potential solution to the challenges facing UK construction but, to date, the uptake has been limited. Exemplars exist but critical mass for offsite has not been achieved.
What is needed is a step-increase in offsite, leading to tangible increased quality and productivity with a consequent reduction in true unit cost.
For the benefits of offsite to be more widely understood and applied, the challenge is to create the mechanism which will enable the offsite industry to make its case more effectively by increasing awareness, informing, enthusing, and setting standards.
The DTI is supporting this first phase of the project to deliver the critical mass of stakeholders in offsite – clients, designers, manufacturers, contractors, constructors – to identify and implement priority actions. This is the first step in bringing offsite into the mainstream.
buildoffsite’s ambition is to achieve a ten-fold increase in the uptake of offsite.
What does buildoffsite do?
buildoffsite champions better construction by acting as a catalyst in the use of offsite across all market sectors.
It is the authoritative voice of the offsite industry.
It will carry out a number of specific activities for offsite:
Who are buildoffsite?
Organisations already committed to buildoffsite cover the full industry spectrum.
They are successful now and see the benefits that can come from a much wider application of offsite throughout the UK construction industry.
Click here for further information about buildoffsite membership and a list of current members
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