1. Commitment and investment by home builders and the skills challenge
John Slaughter, Director of External Affairs

2. The home builder’s mind set
Is there something better?
What enables me to set off from base camp?
We face a lot of commercial risk already
There’s many possible options out there

3. One word is key

4. Drivers and constraints
Increasing supply (300k)
But larger firms’ 75% increase in 4 years: future growth steadier
Offsite needs to support diverse product and more diverse industry
Skills capacity
Shortage of the right people a challenge for traditional build
But offsite brings skills and training needs too
Scale and cost
With scale should be cost-competitive
How to achieve given product range and market risks?
Quality
Offsite offers prospect of consistent quality/ performance
But are there compromises in terms of product range/ design options?

5. Attracting New People to Key Roles – for every extra ten thousand houses we need approximately -
Bricklayer
2500
Plumber
300
Wall & Floor Tiler
150
Assistant/Site Manager
400
Quantity Surveyor 60
Sales Advisor
Engineer
Carpenter
1000
Groundwork/Plant Operative
Electrician
Roof Slater and Tiler
Plasterer/Dryliner
over 8000 new recruits into the twelve key roles
Key
Directly employed
Sub-contracted

7. Resilience of supply chain
Other considerations
Resilience of supply chain
Avoiding systemic failures
Enabling full customisation

8. There are already many willing explorers