The Benefits of Prefab Homes

Prefabricated homes are hugely popular in Germany, Australia and the United States, but so far they’ve only managed to corner a relatively small part of the UK housing market – despite presenting the big developers with an opportunity to benefit from speedy construction and economies of scale.

The government has clocked this and has been pushing for greater uptake in a bid to help solve the housing crisis, but the fact is that until recently the main group investing in offsite-manufactured homes has been (you guessed it) self builders. And some of us don’t even realise we’ve technically gone prefab.

What is a prefab home?

If the idea of a prefab house fills you with dread, fear not. The industry has moved on completely from the practice of throwing up cheap and cheerful boxes that pervaded the mid-20th century.

Speed of delivery is still important, of course, but modern offsite-manufactured homes are all about design flexibility, accuracy and quality control.

One thing that’s worth clarifying early on is that prefab is a broad church covering a range of options – and it doesn’t necessarily mean craning in entire pre-finished rooms. In fact, by far the most common route for self build projects is to engage a company that specialises in highly pre-manufactured closed panel timber frame.

Read more: What is closed panel timber frame?

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