Prefabs sprouting: Modern Methods of Construction and the English housing crisis

预制房屋的萌芽：现代建筑方法和英国住房危机

• 批准号: ES/V015923/2
• 负责人: Andrew Wallace
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Greenwich
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV015923%2F2
• 关键词: Prefabs; sprouting; Modern; Methods; Construction

The UK Government is once again embracing the 'prefab'. However, rather than the iconic bungalows of the post-war housing emergency, or the ageing concrete tower blocks that still dominate many urban skylines, today's offerings are digitally designed and manufactured in controlled factory settings. In 2019, the Government - keen to accelerate housebuilding, reduce carbon emissions and challenge the traditional construction sector - began to commit significant resources to this method of housebuilding, what is usually called 'Modern Methods of Construction' or MMC. They did this, in part, because of the ongoing 'housing crisis' whereby an insufficient supply of good quality, affordable homes for sale and rent has driven up the numbers of people living in insecure, poor quality and temporary accommodation. The MMC sector is now growing rapidly in England and large companies like Ikea and Legal and General are receiving Government grants to build MMC homes. However, there is little research being done to understand what kind of homes and places MMC firms are building or what role MMC is playing or should play in addressing the housing crisis.Our project will fill this gap and is organised around four main tasks. Firstly, we will build a picture of the MMC sector itself and establish what kind of companies we find, where they are located and what kind of homes and business philosophies they offer. Second, we will study what kind of homes and places MMC developers are being commissioned to deliver by clients and policymakers across England and how this process of delivery unfolds. Third, we will analyse the system that surrounds MMC and examine how policymakers and the housing industry are changing or responding to the new firms. Fourth, we will evaluate if new MMC homes and places are helping to address the housing crisis in England by, for example, offering more affordable, safe, energy efficient, durable that are well planned and located. Part of the study works at the national level to understand what is happening with MMC across England. Another part of the study is anchored in three cases of MMC-driven housing regeneration in Doncaster, Leeds and Bolton. We are working in partnership with the three firms building these new sites - Bauman Lyons, Citu and Ilke Homes - to gain first-hand knowledge of how MMC projects are delivered and to talk to residents living in MMC homes. Our project is innovative in bringing together researchers working in housing studies, geography, architecture, civil engineering and project management and our methods include documentary analysis, interviews, ethnography and GIS mapping. Our study will enable us to deliver new data of benefit to: scholars interested in housing justice, technical standards, safety and sustainability; government policymakers hungry to address the housing crisis and understand the impact and trajectory of MMC; MMC firms looking for best practice and to publicise their innovative approach to construction; housebuilding industry professionals looking to better understand MMC; civil society organisations who want more information about this new industry and its impacts; the general public who want insights into the reality of buying and living in a modern 'prefab' home and housing activists who are looking for an alternative housing system that works very differently from what we have now.The project will result in six academic articles, reports aimed at non-academic experts working in housing, planning, construction, engineering and project management, a set of accessible blogs and journalism and a programme of local and national dissemination events.

英国政府再次拥抱“预制”。但是，当今的产品不是在许多城市天际线中占主导地位的战后住房紧急情况的标志性平房，而是在受控的工厂设置中进行了数字设计和制造。 2019年，政府热衷于加速房屋建造，减少碳排放并挑战传统的建筑部门 - 开始为这种房屋建设方法提供大量资源，通常称为“现代建筑方法”或MMC。他们之所以这样做，部分原因是，持续的“住房危机”，因此不足以供应优质，负担得起的房屋出售和租金，这促使居住在不安全，质量差和临时住宿中的人数。 MMC部门现在在英格兰正在迅速发展，宜家等大型公司和一般的公司正在获得政府赠款来建造MMC房屋。但是，几乎没有进行研究以了解MMC公司正在建立哪些房屋和地方，或者MMC在解决住房危机方面扮演或应该扮演的角色。我们的项目将填补这一空白，并围绕四个主要任务组织。首先，我们将建立MMC部门本身的图片，并确定我们找到哪些公司的位置以及他们提供的房屋和经营理念。其次，我们将研究MMC开发商正在委托英格兰的客户和政策制定者交付哪些类型的房屋和地点，以及这种交付过程如何展开。第三，我们将分析围绕MMC的系统，并研究政策制定者和住房行业如何改变或对新公司做出反应。第四，我们将评估新的MMC房屋和地点是否正在帮助解决英格兰的住房危机，例如，提供更加负担得起，安全，能源效率，耐用的计划和确定性。该研究的一部分在国家一级工作，以了解整个英格兰MMC的情况。该研究的另一部分是在唐卡斯特，利兹和博尔顿的三例MMC驱动的住房再生中锚定。我们正在与建立这些新网站的三家公司合作，即鲍曼·里昂（Bauman Lyons），CITU和Ilke Homes-，以了解如何交付MMC项目并与居住在MMC Homes中的居民进行交谈。我们的项目具有创新性，可以使研究人员聚集在住房研究，地理，建筑，土木工程和项目管理方面，我们的方法包括文献分析，访谈，人种学和GIS映射。我们的研究将使我们能够提供新的收益数据：对住房正义，技术标准，安全和可持续性感兴趣的学者；政府政策制定者渴望解决住房危机并了解MMC的影响和轨迹； MMC公司寻求最佳实践并宣传其创新的建筑方法；建设自制行业专业人员希望更好地了解MMC；希望有关这个新行业及其影响的更多信息的民间社会组织；希望深入了解购买和生活在现代“预制”房屋和住房活动家的现实的公众，他们正在寻找一种与我们现在所拥有的替代性住房系统的作用。该项目将产生六个学术文章，旨在非学术专家的报告，旨在从事住房，计划，建筑，工程，工程，工程，工程和项目管理，一套可访问的博客和国家的活动和新闻和新闻业和新闻业和新闻业和新的活动和新的活动和新的活动和新闻和新的活动和新的活动和新的活动和新的活动和新的活动和新的活动和新闻和新的活动和新闻和新的活动。