Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 May 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Modern Construction Methods: Discussion
Mr. Ciar?n O'Connor:
I could tell the Cathaoirleach a little story about that. In Germany, they did very well with modulars in the beginning. Then people said they knew it was modular because the room was a certain width and they could not make it bigger. In Germany, for second houses, modular is very popular, but it is less popular for one's permanent house, because some people feel modular has dimensional constraints. When we looked at that two-storey, we deliberately tried to work out how one would break that. That was part of that design process, where one does not let it look like the box that came off the back of the truck. There are different ways to do that. We think we have managed to do that. Certainly, with that two-storey unit, one would not be able to tell when it is finished that it is different.
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