Modern Methods Of Construction
People understand that innovative processes assist in delivering exceptional products. This is why the UK construction industry is turning too modern manufacturing techniques to consistently deliver homes right first time. Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) bring unique benefits to providing high quality homes.
The Homes and Communities Agency divides MMC into six categories; Hunter Off-Site Limited is classified in the top catagory, Category 1:
- Volumetric Off Site Manufacture: (also known as modular construction) involves the production of three-dimensional units in controlled factory conditions prior to transportation to site.
- Panellised Off Site Manufacture: Flat panel units are produced in a factory and assembled on-site to produce a three dimensional structure.
- Hybrid Off Site Manufacture: smaller units are used for highly serviced and more repeatable areas such as kitchens and bathrooms with the remainder of the building constructed using panels.
- Sub-Assemblies and Components manufactured off site: factory fabricated sub-assemblies and components, such as floor and roof cassettes and wiring looms, in a traditionally built structural fabric.
- Non-OSM Modern Methods of Construction: other house building techniques and structural systems that fall outside the OSM categories.
- Not Applicable: all traditional site-based new build, refurbishment and conversion schemes.
Volumetric Off-Site Manufacturing
Our innovative and efficient Volumetric Off-Site Manufacturing (V-OSM) production plant allows continual monitoring of quality, workmanship, cost and programme. Fully understood and implemented, V-OSM is flexible enough to produce bespoke projects without the need for mass production.
Off-site manufactured components are already used within most construction projects - windows, roof trusses, kitchen units and the like, but this still leaves the principal activity, the construction, to be site based and subject to all the traditional problems and difficulties. Even the most untrained eye can see at a glance that a traditional building site, open to the elements, with piles of materials lying around, is not conducive to fault-free high-quality homes. The process is comparable to building high quality cars; few people could be convinced that having a car built in the open-air by operatives standing up to their ankles in mud would automatically ensure a high quality, fault free product - so why are homes built in this way!
Key benefits of V-OSM:- Significant reduction in construction programme, site overheads, waste, and most importantly, environmental impact.
- Dramatic improvement in predictability, efficiency, quality and workmanship.
- Overcomes current skill shortage.
- Use of sustainable resources benefits the environment.
- Improved technical performance.