Prefab progress
Roskrow, B.
Prefab progress - 2003 - House Builder 62(7) August 2003, 24-25(2) .
Features Westbury Homes' Space4 prefabricated housing system, which is manufactured off-site in a factory. Charts the changes to this modern timber frame process, both in the factory and on-site, from its start in April 2001 to the present and stresses that the process requires precision building. Westbury's factory, which is the largest off-site prefabrication plant in the UK, has the capacity to produce 5 000 houses a year and manufactures for its own use and for other house builders. Production costs are coming into line with traditional build but overall on-site construction times are far shorter.
TIMBER FRAME CONSTRUCTION
SPACE4
PREFABRICATED HOUSING
OFF-SITE MANUFACTURING
HOUSE BUILDING
Prefab progress - 2003 - House Builder 62(7) August 2003, 24-25(2) .
Features Westbury Homes' Space4 prefabricated housing system, which is manufactured off-site in a factory. Charts the changes to this modern timber frame process, both in the factory and on-site, from its start in April 2001 to the present and stresses that the process requires precision building. Westbury's factory, which is the largest off-site prefabrication plant in the UK, has the capacity to produce 5 000 houses a year and manufactures for its own use and for other house builders. Production costs are coming into line with traditional build but overall on-site construction times are far shorter.
TIMBER FRAME CONSTRUCTION
SPACE4
PREFABRICATED HOUSING
OFF-SITE MANUFACTURING
HOUSE BUILDING