Using more standardised housing designs could cut the cost of home-building by an eighth, a report commissioned by the Department of Housing has found.
The study said the use of off-site construction and prefabricated design technologies, often referred to as modern methods of construction (MMC), could generate significant savings “across all stages of residential delivery – from design to construction to long-term management”.
It modelled the potential cost savings across three basic housing types – a three-bedro
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