All Building articles in Offsite Directory October 2005

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  • Features

    Directory

    2005-10-21T12:28:00Z

    There are more off-site manufacturers than ever before and you can find them all in this A-Z guide, compiled by Mtech Group

  • Comment

    Foreword

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    The contribution of the construction industry is enormous in creating a built environment that is a platform for our economic success and our personal and collective wellbeing.

  • News

    Offsite Directory October 2005

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

  • Features

    Inside an off-site toolkit

    2005-10-19T15:43:00Z

    Darren Richards introduces a toolkit that maximises off-site technology’s potential

  • Features

    Steps to successful process improvement

    2005-10-19T15:37:00Z

    To get the best out of off-site construction, you need to get your build process right, says David Thomas. Here’s how…

  • Features

    The how what why

    2005-10-19T15:34:00Z

    Martin Goss answers the key questions about certification, regulation and standardisation

  • Features

    So who’s counting?

    2005-10-19T15:31:00Z

    The cost-benefit argument for OSC appears to have gone largely unmade.

  • Richard Ogden
    Features

    ‘We went from greenfield to selling hamburgers in 48 hours’

    2005-10-19T15:22:00Z

    In the 1980s Richard Ogden played a key role in trailblazing the use of off-site construction for a certain fast-food chain. Now he’s the first chairman of Buildoffsite, connecting burgeoning demand for new construction techniques with supply.

  • Northern Edge’s design for the Design for Manufacture competition
    Features

    Bring it on

    2005-10-19T14:06:00Z

    Okay, we can all stop worrying about whether off-site techniques will ever be taken seriously as a construction method, or whether anybody outside housebuilding has even heard of it... The real question now is whether the industry is ready to take advantage of all those off-site opportunities – the Olympics, ...