FEBRUARY 2025CONSTRUCTIONTECHREVIEW.COM8IN MYOPINIONBy Moad ZIADI, Director of Construction Projects Europe, Unibail-Rodamco-WestfieldHOW OFFSITE CONSTRUCTION BRING SOLUTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS?Offsite construction, even if it is part of the Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), remains an old technology which at the latest had emerged at the beginning of the 20th century. In the United States, some real estate companies started selling `Kit houses' in the 1900s. The associated technology and its own standards framework were the embryo of what we now call modern offsite construction.This technology takes many forms, ranging from a 3-dimensional module such as prefabricated hotel bathrooms or student bedroom modules to simple elements such as precast slabs, masonry blocks or even non-structural assemblies and sub-assemblies such as electrical boards or mechanical boxes.The objective of this technology, at the beginning of the last century, was to find solutions to build quickly and guarantee better or at least identical quality to the classical construction method.Moad ZIADI
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