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Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 March 2008
New offsite technical talk - modular
matters
Advantage Offsite, in collaboration with Mtech Group, have launched a new series of dedicated Offsite Construction Technical Talk seminars for 2008.
Each focusing on a range of different offsite technologies, including; volumetric modular, pods, light steel frame, timber frame, precast concrete, ICF, SIPS, and pre-engineered MandE services, Technical Talk will be the most dynamic and informative offsite technology events of the year Technical Talk seminars will allow delegates to understand the various different technologies within the offsite construction sector in much more detail than the generic offsite construction events that the industry has presented to date
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 24 Jan 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Mtech Group and Constructing Excellence Wales have joined forces to host Spotlight on Off-Site, a combined exhibition and conference.
Every month, from April to November 2008, a Technical Talk seminar will be hosted on a specific offsite technology at the Think Tank, Millennium Point, Birmingham, and each will focus exclusively on the key aspects of the featured offsite technology, with clients, architects, contractors and manufacturers all recounting their experiences and identifying the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.
Each event will include an exhibition of 12 companies, which will run alongside a seminar programme, and will be attended by up to 120 influential delegates drawn from the construction sector and across a wide range of disciplines and markets.
The first technology to be featured in this series is the volumetric modular building industry, which has developed a highly sophisticated method of construction, though from a manufacturing technology aspect is perhaps still in its infancy.
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First Scottish Conference on Offsite Construction
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This market is estimated to grow 12-15% per annum, to over GBP800 million by 2008.
Typical applications include social housing projects, hospital wards, operating theatres, classrooms, schools, MoD barracks, student accommodation, key worker accommodation, prisons, detention centres, drive-in restaurants and petrol station forecourt shops.
The use of modular building in the market sale residential sector is growing.
There have been developments in the provision of architectural solutions providing branded products.
Strategic alliances and partnerships are required to provide economies of scale for manufacturers.
There will be a need for a greater shift towards re-engineering the construction process, lean manufacturing principles, advanced mechanisation and automation.
This sector is likely to emulate and imitate the strategies of the Japanese industrialised house builders.
There is a requirement for greater standardisation using 'platform design' and mass-customisation as developed by the automotive industry.
Understanding of the benefits and current limitations of the technology is limited.
Furthermore, there is limited ability of design consultants to design to suit manufacturing processes rather than traditional construction operations.
These issues and many more will be debated at Modular Matters.
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