Case study · Residential and modular building
Modular building has cut the assembly time of a home to hours. If the foundation still takes weeks, the advantage is lost along the way.
The house arrives on the lorry folded up and is opened out on site: it is the kind of building that goes up in a day. The whole point of the product lies in that speed.
A concrete slab would cancel it out: formwork, pouring, and then the curing time before anything can rest on it. A one-day assembly turns into weeks on site, and the ground that hosted it never goes back to how it was.
The house does not rest on a surface: it rests on a series of points aligned along its two long sides. Each point is a screw driven into the lawn, topped by an adjustable support that takes the load of the frame.
That changes the site: there is nothing to shutter and nothing to level with a concrete mixer. You install the points, bring the structure level using the supports, and assemble.
An open gap remains between the floor and the lawn. The timber is not in contact with the soil, air circulates, and rising damp — the classic problem of a timber structure laid on the ground — has nowhere to come up.
It is also why the lawn under the house is still a lawn: it has not been sealed, only passed through at a few points.
A modular building is designed to be moved. The foundation has to be able to do the same: the anchors are unscrewed and taken away, with no demolition and no layer of concrete to dispose of.
What remains in the ground are holes closed over by the grass. For farmland, a leased plot or land under restrictions, that is the difference between a building and an installation.
Modular houses, temporary offices, glamping and hospitality structures all live on the same balance: the structure arrives quickly, and the foundation has to keep up. It is the field where the advantage of ground screws is measured in days on site, not on the quote.
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