Andrew Bannister

Yes. It already has been, on four continents. The question is why we are still arguing about it. Industrialisation is not a factory. That one misunderstanding has burned more money than any technical failure. A factory is one part of a chain running from land and brief through funding, design, manufacture, assembly, handover and maintenance. Bolt a factory onto an unchanged process and you have an expensive shed with one customer. Why it is so slow → A bank will lend against a half-built...

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,...