Balfour Beatty backs offsite construction

With the latest government paper on construction productivity focusing on offsite manufacturing, Balfour Beatty has shown its commitment to lowering costs and emissions with the launch of its policy papers: “25% by 2025: Streamlined construction – seven steps to offsite and modular building”.

In the paper, Balfour Beatty commits to the reducing the amount of work undertaken onsite by 25% by 2025. The commitment is enhanced by a promise to work with government and other members of the construction industry, to modernise the industry and drive change.

The paper also calls for the industry to share best practice and learn from the manufacturing sector, with the new generation of industrialised construction methods, including offsite and modular building techniques offering the UK construction industry one of the largest opportunities available of any sector to transform its model.

Balfour Beatty recognises that industrialised construction is the best way to shift 25% of its current output by 2025 to a solution that can critically improve safety, radically enhance productivity and quality but also create new expertise with the potential to be a massive export opportunity.

Leo Quinn, Balfour Beatty Group Chief Executive, said: “On a national level, industrialised construction would lead to the creation of thousands of jobs across the country over the next few years – if we invest now.

“For everyone in construction to reap the rewards of industrialised construction the industry must increase the pace of change while the public sector and other infrastructure commissioners need to fund schemes that utilise industrialised techniques.”

You can read the paper in full: Here

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