All Building articles in Specifier 18 February 2005

View all stories from this issue.

  • Features

    Costs: Off-site manufactures

    2005-02-18T14:45:00Z

    The government needs buildings – plenty of them, and fast. Peter Mayer of Building Performance Group asks whether off-site manufacture is the best whole-life-value solution

  • Features

    Checklist

    2005-02-18T14:42:00Z

    Off-site manufacture could become the most influential technique of the 21st century. Barbour Index and Scott Brownrigg look at how OSM can already add value

  • Features

    Specifier Products

    2005-02-18T14:35:00Z

    All manner of off-site innovations, including ideas on how to put up a departure lounge in a hurry, how to install a fully serviced washroom in two days, and how to build a school from pre-existing units

  • An unused house is demolished to make way for Bryden Wood’s modular home; the six preassembled units arrive on site and are craned into position at the rate of two every other day; the whole installation process takes less than a week.
    Features

    Off-site manufacture

    2005-02-18T14:29:00Z

    This issue’s Specifier takes a close look at the expanding world of modern methods of construction, including a checklist of when to head for the factory and when to steer clear, lifetime costs and, overleaf, the latest products. But first, one London architect’s bid to build the ODPM’s vaunted £60,000 ...

  • News

    Off-site manufacture

    2005-02-18T00:00:00Z

    This issues Specifier takes a close look at the expanding world of modern methods of construction, including a checklist of when to head for the factory and when to steer clear, lifetime costs and, overleaf, the latest products. But first, one London architects bid to build the ODPMs vaunted 60,000 ...