Can Henry Ford-style housebuilding work?

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Nick Pinder, Mariya Rankin and Magdalena Prus explore the contractual and regulatory implications of a cookie-cutter approach to housebuilding

The Labour government’s plan to “get Britain building again” is certainly ambitious. With no government in recent years having met its own affordable housing targets, the scale of this ambition may well prove to have been significantly understated.

But in an industry that is constantly asked to find ways to adapt and innovate within new legal and regulatory targets, one answer might be found by looking back to the success of Henry Ford’s revolutionary approach to standardisation. This approach could help meet both targets and regulations at the scale and pace required.

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