Can we crack modular housing?

摘要

For decades, modular housing has been the sector's equivalent of nuclearfusion:the imagined fount of limitless supply has always been just over the horizon… but never quite within reach, However, Boris Johnson's government appears to have hollered the edict: it's time to 'get modular done'. A note of scepticism, In one of my first stories as a trade journalist, I breathlessly broke the story that a large Japanese company was poised to ship thousands of modular housing units to our shores and this would transform UK housebuilding.