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Humanity’s basic needs have always been food, clothing, water, and shelter. Globally, all four of these requirements for human life have been industrialised, except one: construction. Industrialised construction is an everyday occurrence in Japan or Sweden, but remains a rarity in Spain. This alternative way of making buildings consists of creating designs in digital form and manufacturing its parts in a factory. Once this part of the process is complete, the material gets transferred to the construction site for assembly. Hence its other name: offsite<\/em>.<\/p>\n The objective is simple: to industrially manufacture the maximum number of elements that will then shape the finished building. Currently, industrialised construction is very limited in Spain, as it scarcely has a production capacity of 1,000 housing units per year. That constitutes barely 1% of the total number of new homes. “The percentage of industrialised housing reaches 7% in the United Kingdom, 9% in Germany, 50% in Holland and practically 100% in Sweden”, specifies Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Quir\u00f3s<\/b>, Industrialisation Delegate of AEDAS Homes.<\/p>\n For Quir\u00f3s, the sector that needs to make the greatest leap towards industrialisation is the residential sector. “We are still building houses as we did a century ago, and it is not sustainable. Industrialisation eliminates the ambiguity in costs, bringing shorter delivery times, greater sustainability and higher quality of execution, among other advantages”, explains the developer’s delegate. However, at present, buyers are faced with the fact that the current prices of industrially built housing are equal to traditional homes, due to the low production capacity of the industry.<\/p>\n Still, industrialisation offers multiple benefits. According to the report Industrialised and Sustainable Housing by Aedas Homes and B Leaf, offsite housing represents a 60% reduction in CO2 emissions in its construction and 30% in its use. In addition, they reduce water consumption in their manufacture and maintenance and require between 40% and 75% less energy for air conditioning and heating. This makes the industrialisation of construction processes the antithesis of on-site production. One word can summarize it all: sustainability.<\/p>\n And that’s not all. If we want to make industrialised construction even more attractive, manufacturing components in factories means safer conditions for workers and a considerable reduction of accidents on the job. “The consequent modernisation of the sector makes it possible to attract young and female talent, as well as provide a safer environment for the workers,” Quir\u00f3s assures. Moreover, since parts production occurs in factories rather than on-site, construction projects are not subject to the weather\u2019s mercy, considerably reducing building times and costs.<\/p>\n Sounds good, doesn’t it? But there is one interesting detail: industrialised construction requires projects to be conceived as such from the outset by designers, manufacturers and all the various players involved in the project. This is why digitalisation, innovation and Building Information Modelling (BIM) are the cornerstones that connect and facilitate communication and work between all of the involved parties in a project. This is precisely the core of the digital consultancy firm\u2019s work, Modelical. “As of now, there is no set procedure or software application that can bring all of these pieces together. Both designers and manufacturers use different applications, and there is no unified language to transfer information between parties,” explains Iv\u00e1n Pajares, BuiltTech Specialist at Modelical<\/b>.<\/p>\n