As part of a wider article looking at the benfits of modern, prefabricated techniques in the domestic housing market, Cast CEO, Mark Farmer was quoted in the Sunday Times this weekend. He explained how the UK’s large scale new build single housing modular sector needs a trailblazer, such as Top Hat, to be able to weather the current storm of economic volatility and demonstrate to the general public how it can be better than traditional build.
Whilst the benefits case has been well proven in the higher density, investor led, urban apartment market by the likes of Vision Modular / Tide Construction, the single housing market model remains elusive as an economic downturn has caused casualties across the industry’s supply chains. As Top Hat looks to open its second factory lots of eyes will be on them to see whether they can achieve business maturity. Read the full article here