Off-Site Construction

Should your new home or extension be built on site in the traditional way — or prefabricated off site? Mark Brinkley guides us through the options

One of the biggest conundrums facing the would-be self-builder is whether to have their home built on site, typically in brick and block, or off site in a factory. Walk around any self-build exhibition and you will find examples of both approaches on display and it’s not easy to make sense of competing claims. So what are the pros and cons, and how do you decide? Perhaps the first thing to understand is that most of the housebuilding process is common to both approaches. The groundworks and the drainage are much the same, as are all the finishing details. It’s the segment in the middle of the process, the building of the superstructure, that concerns us here. Surprisingly, this part accounts for as little as 25% of the overall budget,…

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Homebuilding & Renovating (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2018

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