Offsite construction — 30 years of projects across South Yorkshire

WikiHouse, Sheffield: could this be the solution to the UK’s housing crisis?

South Yorkshire Housing Association is the first housing association in the country (world?) to build a WikiHouse. Why did we do this?

The short answer is that in England we need to build more houses, better and faster, to hit the target of 300,000 new homes each year that is needed to tackle our housing crisis.

And we think WikiHouse could be part of the answer.

The longer answer is that while WikiHouse shares the benefits of other offsite construction methods - better/more airtight build quality, lower energy costs, higher environmental sustainability - it has some extra features which set it apart. These include: open source design, opportunities for citizen-led building, easy adaptation and distributed manufacture.

Social Housing, Climate EmergencyMiranda Plowden24 February 2020WikiHouse, South Yorkshire Housing Association, Architecture 00, Chop Shop, Housing crisis, Offsite construction Comment