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"Does the solution to Australia’s housing crisis lie in a modest, 7000sqm
factory tucked away in an industrial zone in south-west Sydney?
There, among neat stacks of precision-sawn and drilled planks of wood, the
major components of 30 houses at any time are being painstakingly assembled,
guided by lasers and made ready to take to building sites.
Once there, like a giant version of flat-pack IKEA furniture, the pieces are
put together according to the jigsaw masterplan as a quicker, more
cost-efficient and, in all likelihood, defect-free way of building a house.
“Our house took about six months to build, and it’s absolutely beautiful – we
love it,” said Chris Patterson, sitting in the loungeroom of one of the
prefabricated houses he bought for his home lot in Camden, 15 minutes away.
“Preparing all the elements first in a factory meant they were created with
real accuracy, and then they could be put together really efficiently. We moved
in 15 months ago and already I understand the value of the house has gone up by
perhaps as much as 30 per cent.”
Patterson, 52, who, with his wife Jo, 51, runs a consultancy in government
relations, bought the two-storey, five-bedroom house for themselves and their
blended family of six children, aged from 23 to 16.
It was the first of Japanese developer Sekisui House’s SHAWOOD homes finished
for the company’s masterplanned community Gledswood Hills.
“Every house is sustainably built as well and has solar panels on the roof and
a battery, so the energy bills are very low,” said Jo."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
