I work in a London studio on UK projects, but my background is as an architect in Sweden. In my transition to working in the UK, I have found it striking that, despite the UK’s high levels of enthusiasm for MMC and Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) and the considerable industry buzz surrounding it, these ideas are often embraced in the early stages of a project but routinely dropped further down the line, as decision makers revert to traditional methods.

Observing this repeating pattern, my growing concern is that the UK risks missing the opportunity to move towards carbon neutral building in line with its European counterparts. In Scandinavia, for example, traditional on-site building with bricks & mortar is now viewed as an “old means of construction”.

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