The benefits of offsite manufacture
Find out how using structural timber systems can give you the assurance of more control over quality, productivity and predictability on your self-build project
Offering highly impressive environmental credentials, along with cost and time efficiencies, structural timber systems are a mainstay of the self-build market. As time progresses, timber solutions are moving towards a more factory-built focus, with greater levels of prefabrication – so your new house can be delivered as part of a controlled process, rather than relying on site-based methods. Here’s what you need to know about the rise of pre-manufactured homes.
The basics
The terms ‘offsite manufacture’ and ‘offsite construction’ are now entering the self-build vernacular. But what do they really mean? Fundamentally they describe structural systems that are factory-manufactured to an advanced level to allow for onsite assembly (as opposed to construction) via controlled installation processes.