Balfour commits to off-site a quarter of project work by 2025

Balfour Beatty has committed itself to cut work undertaken on site by 25% by 2025.

The streamlining plan is to support the Government’s 2025 strategy for lower cost, lower emissions and faster delivery

Balfour Beatty chief executive Leo Quinn said that the new generation of industrialised construction methods, including offsite and modular building techniques offers the UK construction industry one of the largest opportunities available of any sector to transform its model.

“On a national level, industrialised construction would lead to the creation of thousands of jobs across the country over the next few years – if we invest now.

“For everyone in construction to reap the rewards of industrialised construction the industry must increase the pace of change while the public sector and other infrastructure commissioners need to fund schemes that utilise industrialised techniques.”

“Yet today, only 12% of construction involves offsite methods . Despite a groundswell of recognition about its benefits, there is also the understandable inertia of a conservative industry with long project cycles and unaligned interests.”

Balfour Beatty recognises that industrialised construction is the best way to shift 25% of its current output by 2025 to a solution that can critically improve safety, radically enhance productivity and quality but also create new expertise with the potential to be a massive export opportunity.

 

from Construction Enquirer http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2018/08/28/balfour-commits-to-off-site-a-quarter-of-project-work-by-2025/

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