New Homes: Menu of solutions to soaring demand for housing
Just one part of Ireland's housing solution: The so-called Rohfab homes, built with prefabricated modular concrete panels delivered on site.
We tend to go around in circles as well as cycles, and it’s as obvious in housing as it is in many other areas of government policy: just look at the acknowledgement across all sectors that one method of speeding up home delivery is off-site and modular home construction … but that’s nothing new.
This country was delivering system-built homes over half a century ago, the new president of the Construction Industry Federation Cork builder Stepehen McCarthy wryly noted at a recent CIF function: he said his very first job in the trade (in which he still is actively in the trenches!) was doing foundations for the so-called Rohfab homes, built with prefabricated modular concrete panels delivered on site.
