‘Specwall-LB ’- A finish-ready offsite-manufactured composite panelling system for loadbearing wall applications to replace inefficient and costly traditional ‘assembled-on-site’ solutions.

为了在全球市场上更好地竞争，英国在各个行业还有很多工作要做，但在国内，建筑业一直是英国生产率最低的行业(比2017年整个经济的平均每小时产出低20%以上)。虽然2016至2017年间建筑业生产率增长了3.8%，但该行业还有很长的路要走。面对众多的商业和市场压力，建筑业希望应对政府每年新建30万套住房的挑战，因此需要提高生产率。几十年来，英国的房屋建筑商一直依赖陈旧的现场建筑方法，使用块或木隔板/托梁，内墙采用填充式绝缘和石膏板墙面。这些方法是劳动密集型的，速度慢，需要相对熟练的劳动力，在火灾和声学方面表现不佳，涉及危险活动，并且极其浪费--使用这些传统方法时，通常会有高达25%的浪费。在所有建筑中，除了最高规格的建筑外，最终结果都无法达到工厂制造的集成解决方案所能达到的精确度和精确度。为期18个月的specwall-LB项目(specwall Alliance和Loughborough University的合作)是为英国住宅建筑业提供非现场制造的内外墙承重解决方案的重要第一步。

The UK has much to do across sectors to compete better in global markets but domestically, the construction industry languishes as the least productive sector in the UK (more than 20% below the average output per hour for the whole economy in 2017). Whilst construction productivity grew by 3.8% between 2016 and 2017, the industry has a long way to go. As the industry looks to address the Government's challenge of building 300,000 new homes each year, amidst a multitude of commercial and market pressures, it needs to become much more productive.For decades in the UK, housebuilders have relied on aged onsite construction methods using block or timber partitions/joists with infill insulation and plasterboard facings for internal walls. These methods are labour intensive and slow, require a relatively skilled workforce, perform poorly from a fire and acoustic perspective, involve hazardous activities and are extremely wasteful -- up to 25% waste is common when using these traditional methods. In all but the very highest specification builds, the finished result cannot approach the accuracy and precision possible with integrated 'engineered' factory-made solutions.The 18-month Specwall-LB project (a collaboration between Specwall Alliance and Loughborough University is the first major step towards providing the UK's housebuilding sector with an offsite-manufactured loadbearing 'ready to paint' solution for internal and external walls.