Insights
What is Hybrid Volumetric Modular?
The marriage of structurally over-engineered modules, built in a factory, with a conventional base structure on site. A direct response to the speed, compliance and cost-certainty constraints conventional construction has not resolved.
Can modular construction meet SDA compliance?
The honest answer has two parts. Traditional volumetric modular struggles with it. The hybrid method was developed specifically to solve it.
The four SDA design categories
Improved Liveability, Fully Accessible, Robust and High Physical Support. Four categories, four different buildings, one standard.
SDA and SIL, the difference
One funds the building. The other funds the people working in it. Confusing them produces buildings that do not suit the support model they are meant to house.
Why the programme runs shorter
It is not that the work is faster. It is that two large blocks of work happen at the same time instead of one after the other.
Livable Housing design levels, and where SDA goes past them
Silver, Gold and Platinum describe how far a home goes toward being usable by everyone. SDA starts above them.
NCC building classes for special-use accommodation
The class is not a formality. It decides which fire, egress and amenity provisions apply, and it is settled long before construction.
Sloping and constrained sites
Uneven ground is where a lot of modular construction quietly gives up on accessibility. The base structure is the answer.
Student accommodation and repeatable dwellings
A building made of a hundred near-identical rooms is the case factory production was built for.
Social and affordable housing in regional New South Wales
The places that need compliant housing most are the places where the trades to build it are most difficult to assemble.