Off-site manufacture for construction: Building for change ...

1 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SELECT COMMITTEE Off-site manufacture for construction: Building for change Oral and Written evidence Contents Accord Housing Association Written evidence (OMC0079) .. 5 Addleshaw Goddard LLP Written evidence (OMC0065) .. 8 ARUP Written evidence (OMC0010) .. 14 B&CE Written evidence (OMC0016) .. 20 BEAMA Written evidence (OMC0052) .. 23 BLP Insurance Written evidence (OMC0072) .. 29 Blue Lion Consultants Ltd Written evidence (OMC0068) .. 35 Bryden Wood, Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners and WSP UK Oral evidence (QQ 30-40) .. 42 BSI Written evidence (OMC0022).. 43 Build UK, Construction Industry Council (CIC) and Construction Products Association Oral evidence (QQ 50-56) .. 47 Buildeco Offsite Architecture Written evidence (OMC0029) .. 65 Building Alliance Written evidence (OMC0033) .. 70 Building Societies Association (BSA) Written evidence (OMC0049).

2 74 Buildoffsite Written evidence (OMC0036) .. 76 Caledonian Modular Limited Written evidence (OMC0037) .. 84 Carl Henry Modular Ltd Written evidence (OMC0012) .. 92 Cast, Construction Industry Training Board (CITB), Mace and High Value Manufacturing Catapult Oral evidence (QQ 24-29) .. 95 CCG OSM Ltd Written evidence (OMC0009) ..112 Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) Written evidence (OMC0040) ..117 Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) Written evidence (OMC0044) ..122 Cogent Consulting Written evidence (OMC0030) ..125 Concrete Centre Written evidence (OMC0061) ..130 Constructing Excellence Written evidence (OMC0046) ..136 Construction Industry Council (CIC), Construction Products Association and Build UK Oral evidence (QQ 50-56) ..140 2 Construction Industry Training Board (CITB), Mace, High Value Manufacturing Catapult and Cast Oral evidence (QQ 24-29).

3 141 Construction Leadership Council Oral evidence (QQ 57-63) ..142 Construction Products Association Written evidence (OMC0050) ..159 Construction Products Association, Build UK and Construction Industry Council (CIC) Oral evidence (QQ 50-56) ..165 DIRTT Environmental Solutions Written evidence (OMC0043) ..166 Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) Written evidence (OMC0088) 170 Elliott Group Ltd Written evidence (OMC0027) ..173 Mr Simon Fawcett Written evidence (OMC0058) ..181 Mr Paul Fear Written evidence (OMC0002) ..185 First Home Vision Written evidence (OMC0056) ..188 Government Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Written evidence (OMC0011) ..193 Government Richard Harrington MP, Minister for Infrastructure and Construction, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and Fergus Harradence, Deputy Director, Construction, BEIS Oral evidence (QQ 71-77).

4 198 Government Ministry of Justice Written evidence (OMC0081) ..218 Greater London Authority, Willmott Dixon and Legal and General Modular Homes Oral evidence (QQ 9-16) ..223 Dr Robert Hairstans, Edinburgh Napier University Written evidence (OMC0078) ..224 Hatch Home Accelerator Written evidence (OMC0087) ..230 Heathrow Airport, Professor Jennifer Whyte, Imperial College London and Professor Jeremy Watson CBE, University College London Oral evidence (QQ 1-8) ..235 Heathrow Airport Supplementary written evidence (OMC0035) ..236 Ian Heptinstall, Independent Consultant - Written evidence (OMC0001) ..241 High Value Manufacturing Catapult, Cast, Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) and Mace Oral evidence (QQ 24-29) ..247 High Value Manufacturing Catapult Supplementary written evidence (OMC0077) ..248 Mr Peter Huf, Architect Written evidence (OMC0083).

5 249 IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) Written evidence (OMC0071) ..252 ilke Homes Written evidence (OMC0066) ..257 Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA), Rider Levett Bucknall and Infrastructure Client Group Oral evidence (QQ 64-70) ..265 Infrastructure Client Group, Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) and Rider Levett Bucknall Oral evidence (QQ 64-70) ..282 Interserve Written evidence (OMC0019) ..283 3 IPInitiative Written evidence (OMC0020) ..289 Kier Construction Ltd Written evidence (OMC0024) ..292 Kingspan Written evidence (OMC0004) ..300 Laing O Rourke Written evidence (OMC0055) ..303 Laing O Rourke, Severfield and NG Bailey Oral evidence (QQ 41-49) ..308 Laing O Rourke Supplementary written evidence (OMC0085)..321 Lean Thinking Ltd Written evidence (OMC0026) ..326 Legal and General Modular Homes Written evidence (OMC0062).

6 329 Legal and General Modular Homes, Greater London Authority and Willmott Dixon Oral evidence (QQ 9-16) ..334 Loughborough University Written evidence (OMC0032) ..348 Low Carbon Construction Written evidence (OMC0038) ..354 Low Carbon Journey Written evidence (OMC0005) ..358 Mace Written evidence (OMC0025) ..363 Mace, High Value Manufacturing Catapult, Cast and Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) Oral evidence (QQ 24-29) ..370 McAvoy Group Written evidence (OMC0047) ..371 MOBIE (Ministry of Building Innovation and Education) Written evidence (OMC0073) ..377 Mott MacDonald Written evidence (OMC0069) ..381 Mott MacDonald and PCSG (Professional Construction Strategies Group) Ltd Oral evidence (QQ 17-23) ..388 NG Bailey, Laing O Rourke and Severfield Oral evidence (QQ 41-49) ..389 NG Bailey Supplementary written evidence (OMC0086).

7 390 NHBC Written evidence (OMC0021) ..396 Offsite Solutions Written evidence (OMC0039) ..401 Osborne Group Holdings Limited Written evidence (OMC0023) ..406 PCSG (Professional Construction Strategies Group) Ltd and Mott MacDonald Oral evidence (QQ 17-23) ..411 Place Venture Management Limited Written evidence (OMC0003) ..429 ProCure22 Written evidence (OMC0017) ..432 Ramboll UK Written evidence (OMC0057) ..440 Rider Levett Bucknall, Infrastructure Client Group and Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) Oral evidence (QQ 64-70) ..447 Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners, WSP UK and Bryden Wood Oral evidence (QQ 30-40) ..448 Rolls Royce Written evidence (OMC0082) ..468 Royal Academy of Engineering Written evidence (OMC0075) ..474 Ryder Architecture Written evidence (OMC0067) ..480 Severfield, NG Bailey and Laing O Rourke Oral evidence (QQ 41-49).

8 485 4 Severfield plc Supplementary written evidence (OMC0084) ..486 Space Projects (UK) Ltd Written evidence (OMC0048) ..489 SPECIFIC Innovation and Knowledge Centre Written evidence (OMC0045) 492 Stride Treglown Written evidence (OMC0015) ..496 Structural Timber Association Written evidence (OMC0059) ..499 Swan Housing Association Written evidence (OMC0076) ..502 Tidal Lagoon Power (TLP) Written evidence (OMC0018) ..512 Totally Modular Ltd Written evidence (OMC0007) ..516 Trowers and Hamlins LLP Written evidence (OMC0053) ..521 UK Finance Written evidence (OMC0051) ..525 UK Research and Innovation Written evidence (OMC0074) ..527 University of Brighton Written evidence (OMC0028) ..533 University of Cambridge Written evidence (OMC0064) ..539 University of the West of England Written evidence (OMC0041) ..544 Urban Splash Written evidence (OMC0042).

9 548 Professor Jeremy Watson CBE, UCL Written evidence (OMC0008) ..550 Professor Jeremy Watson CBE, University College London, Heathrow Airport and Professor Jennifer Whyte, Imperial College London Oral evidence (QQ 1-8) ..557 Professor Jennifer Whyte, Imperial College London, Professor Jeremy Watson CBE, University College London and Heathrow Airport Oral evidence (QQ 1-8) ..577 Professor Jennifer Whyte, Imperial College London Supplementary written evidence (OMC0080) ..578 Willmott Dixon and Legal, General Modular Homes and Greater London Authority Oral evidence (QQ 9-16) ..584 WPI Economics Written evidence (OMC0031) ..585 WSP Written evidence (OMC0014) ..590 WSP UK, Bryden Wood and Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners Oral evidence (QQ 30-40) ..595 Zurich Insurance written evidence (OMC0054) ..596 Accord Housing Association Written evidence (OMC0079) 5 Accord Housing Association Written evidence (OMC0079) Introduction This response is being submitted on behalf of Accord Housing Association which owns its own offsite manufacturing business, Local Homes.

10 We have been manufacturing a closed timber frame panel system for six years following five years experience of importing a similar system from Norway. We are in the process of moving to a new manufacturing facility during 2018 which will enable us to increase production to 1,000 homes per annum to both supply our own development needs and to other developing housing associations and local authorities. We have also developed a factory in a box model to enable other housing associations and local authorities to set up their own, local factories with our support. We have created local jobs by training and employing local people, many of whom have been long term unemployed. 1. What are the opportunities offered by Off-site manufacture for construction? What are the drawbacks to offsite manufacture for construction? We now see the primary benefit of offsite manufacture as being the ability to deliver higher quality homes, manufactured in factory conditions and erected on site to strict quality control procedures.