Construction industry and prefabrication

Statement by President Hübner on serial housing construction

The construction industry is currently subject to several trends. Apart from digitization and testing of new contract models based on partnership, serial and modular building are of particular significance here.

The current focus is on the area of housing construction. One of the goals the German federal government set in its coalition contract is to erect 1.5 million dwelling units in the current legislative period. It quickly became clear that this ambitious goal could not be reached by capacity expansion alone: the construction processes would have to be changed as well. Here, serial...

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