Modular firms using outdated techniques

Modular building makers are using outdated assembly techniques, and are in danger of losing work to low-cost labour economies, claimed buildings maker Vanguard.
The company is planning a factory in Cambridgeshire that will dispense with construction skills and instead use "process-led" techniques.
A Vanguard spokesman told CJ the company plans to knock 20% off the cost of modular buildings by getting rid of skilled labour, such as joiners and electricians. He said: "Standard modular builders take everybody to the box to work on it. Why are you paying £30,000 for a tradesman, when you should be paying for traditional factory labour? We don't fit the windows and skirtings using joiners at different stages, we put them into the box as sub-assemblies."
The company is working with Cambridgeshire County Council spin-off Smartlife on housing in the region. The spokesman said the company plans to make and erect steel frame modular buildings for housebuilders in
the area.