Interview Pete Murray
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26th Mar 2018 11:29am | By Editor
What is the attraction to using more alternative materials? The need for new housing is acute. With the population continuing to rise, demand for more property grows. Experts suggest that there needs to be more than 300,000 homes built every year to service this demand – and yet barely half of that total has been achieved in recent years.
The lack of supply only serves to further drive up prices, making it hard for first time buyers to get on the property ladder and ensuring that the housing market is never far from the headlines.
Politicians, industry leaders and fed up millennials all agree that the answer to the current housing crisis is to build more houses but there are many things that get in the way of delivering housebuilding on the scale required - chiefly the cost of building and the complicated rules governing planning permission.
It’s amid this backdrop that the way we construct properties is under the spotlight. How many homes are built, the cost of them, where they can be built and the environmental impact of building them all, in some way, can be affected by the method of construction and materials used.
You don’t have to look far to see innovation in this field. An article from This Big City highlights five different materials that could transform the face of construction. These are wool bricks that avoid the need for the traditional ‘firing’ process, solar tiles that can harness the sun’s rays, sustainable concrete which uses recycled materials, paper insulation as an alternative to chemical foam and triple glazed windows using krypton to act as an effective insulator.
These are far from the only new materials being used, but they offer a useful snapshot into the many ways in which the process is being refined. The benefits of all of this:
There are many negatives to come from the housing crisis. But if it forces people to find better and more creative solutions to the construction process, this will at least be one positive.
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