2020 TWENTY 'ONE VISION'
Come on get those air guitars ready! "One man, one goal, one mission, one heart one soul, just one solution" and so on. An angle of tribute to Queen in todays blog, can you believe this song came out 35 years ago - very scary!
After a turbulent 2020, loosing many friends including online funerals (one today for my father's best friend from Holland) I am totally done with 2020 in one sense but then again it has been a huge learning curve for us all for many reasons.
Another 'year' bites the dust!
The emphasis in our world is to provide a solution for our dreaded UK housing crisis which is being held up by what is an antiquated construction sector - Mark Farmer's report is a shocking reminder if you need it. The writing is on the wall, without outside support little progress will be made towards 300,000 homes needed per annum for the next 10 years. The shortage of building supplies including timber and accelerated stoppage with Covid not by just a shortage of trees. The big issue is the support from government has come far too little and far too late and whilst contracts have been placed our deepest concern is the lack of experience by some, no proven delivery for sustainable production. Investment in to our nations workforce is a catastrophe and now we seem to be clutching at straws aiming to attach a plaster to solve a very serious situation. Collaboration is the key working with established, proven successful Off-Site solutions from Europe and other parts of the world combined with robust apprenticeships for young people in our country. We can learn so much, from the Baltic States alone who have been creating modern modular products for 35 years the same time as my opening line. UK shouldn't see this as a threat, we need to learn from each other and need urgently to create a "knowledge power house".
The obstacles from elements of our construction sector are wearing very thin so no longer can the doubters provide excuses;
Built to British standards? More so, even better built to highest standards
Can you get a mortgage? With BOPAS approval more than 25 mortgage companies will lend against approved Off-Site Manufacturers already
Guarantees? Absolutely, using state of the art systems modern day OSM's are building worldwide to incredible standards including Scandinavia, Germany and France
See a summary of my key blogs for 2020 here
DON'T STOP US NOW!
Managing director
3 年As a small country we cannot be arogant and low-delivering. For a bigger markets (UK let’s say) you have to provide the TOP custom service! And the deals based on understanding between good custom service (LTU) and the abbility to purchase (UK) - leads to success story.