Off-site construction key to mass production of new homes

'Future' of modern construction lies in off-site timber manufacture for buildings of both low-rise and high-rise dimensions, Dáil committee to hear.

Irish construction contractors must adapt to assembling large parts of future buildings off-site in order to serve the mass production of affordable housing, the Oireachtas housing committee will hear on Tuesday.

Dominic Stevens, a lecturer at Technological University Dublin, is to tell the committee “the future” of modern construction lies in off-site timber manufacture for buildings of both low-rise and high-rise dimensions, both in terms of developing a “high-tech timber manufacturing industry” and also with regard to matching Ireland’s climate goals.