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By Angela Mansell 2026-04-27T06:00:00
Modern methiods of construction continue to attract scrutiny across the industry, with debate often centred on whether the model has been over-promised or inconsistently delivered. Angela Mansell argues that MMC does not fail because it is ‘modern’. It fails when manufacturing is forced to operate within procurement models and behaviours ...
Modern methods of construction (MMC) have come under renewed scrutiny in recent months. Some of that scrutiny is justified.
There have been high-profile examples of MMC being over-promised, under-planned and ultimately under-delivered. That has understandably led to questions about whether MMC itself is fundamentally flawed.
The more commercially relevant question, however, is not whether MMC works – it is whether projects are structured in a way that allows it to succeed.
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