Andrew Bannister

The Two Levers Nobody Pulls Together Andrew J Bannister, Founder, GUILD of MMC We keep arguing about house prices as if they were one number. They aren't. A house price is two costs bolted together — the cost of the building, and the cost of the ground it stands on. Attack one and you shave a few percent. Attack both and the arithmetic changes completely. Lever one: MMC and modular take out the build cost. Factory production replaces weather, waste and waiting with a controlled line. On our...

A GUILD Voice paper by: Andrew J Bannister The proposition The home a person lives in, and the community they live within, have a direct and measurable effect on who they are and who they can become. Give a person opportunity and most will take it. Give a person neglect and substandard housing, and most will never have the chance to progress. Some individuals excel regardless of circumstance — but no housing system should be designed around exceptions. It must be designed for the majority,...

Elon Musk can builThe lack of healthy housing is not restricted to the so called third world.. it is an issue everywhere... Freda is ninety years old, in the eastern suburbs of Berlin. Fifty years ago, her flat was among the best around — dry, heated, and modern for its day. Today, the walls carry mould, the heating no longer holds, and the building has aged in ways she never chose. She did nothing wrong; the home was built well once but was never truly returned to. Now consider a teenage...