Subscribe RSSLike all favourable magic tricks, there is a secret. And the secret here, of course, is that the decks are pre-constructed off-site. What is remarkable though is that they contain all the required infrastructure, from plumbing to wiring, so it is truly a case of just slot-and-plug-in.
The Broad Group, which bills itself as a sustainable construction company, states that its prefabricated system is far ‘greener’ than household building techniques because, for one thing, it uses less six times less cement and is five times more energy-efficient. It adds that the system will assign for faster urbanisation when applied to the developing world, in particular.
Whether or not this adds or detracts from its sustainability credentials is unobstructed to debate, as I am not sure the world needs more conurbations at present. One just has to look at some of the newly-constructed, and spectacularly empty, cities in China to realise that our contemporaneous urbanisation model is seriously flawed.
