Following the Stanley Modular essay, this is interesting:
Goldman bets on prefab By: Sarah Moore 24/04/2019 In Sweden most houses contain pre-made elements And where investment banks go, others tend to follow… Investment bank Goldman Sachs is putting its money into prefabricated houses: dwellings that are put together in a warehouse and then delivered to their destinations fully formed. Goldman has decided the industry is worth a $75m investment. Modular housebuilding is not exactly new to the UK: we tried it in the aftermath of World War II in an attempt to meet the urgent demand for housing. Yet today’s prefabs are, thankfully, more stylish as well as more energy-efficient. The idea is that if production is ramped up, prefab housing could go some way towards meeting the 300,000 houses-per-year target the government thinks we must reach in order to keep up with demand. Unfortunately, the UK is far behind other countries in adopting the trend. In Sweden, around 84% of houses are built using prefabric...