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The
Englishmen
are
more
and
more
convinced
to employ
not
only
Polish
contractors,
owing
to inexpensive
and
well-qualified
labour,
but
also
to apply
Polish
technologies.
The
success
of affordable
houses
on the
British
market
has
been
attained
by the
Kraków
company
involved
in the
execution
of modular
houses.
The
modules
are
manufactured
in Poland,
based
on the
volumetric-module
technology
called
the
Free-Dom
Buma
Building
System,
developed
by the
Buma
Group.
The
recent
Prefabulous
London
- The
A to
Z of
Modern
City
Homes
Conference,
dedicated
to the
future
of prefabricated
housing,
also
featured
two
London
housing
projects
and
the
project
which
had
been
promoted
to the
final
stage
of the
government
competition
of A
House
for
Sixty
Thousand
Pounds,
designed
under
the
Free-Dom
Buma
Building
System.
The
most
important
client
of the
Polish
company
in the
United
Kingdom
is the
Hyde
Housing
Association.
The
Association
plans
to build
every
year
150
houses
executed
under
the
Polish
system.
The
Association
occupies
the
second
position
on the
list
of public
agencies
which
provide
new
flats
in the
United
Kingdom
(flats
are
financed
in 50%
from
public
funds
and
built
for
rent).
The
Polish
system
has
an additional
advantage:
the
volumetric-module
houses
may
be quickly
erected
on site,
and
equally
quickly
demounted
and
removed
to another
location.
The
London
houses
made
of Kraków
modules
were
designed
by the
UK design
office
of Andrzej
Ogorzałek
and
Piotr
Chłapowski,
the
PCKO
Architects.
Read
more:
www.buma.com.pl
Fig.
6. Erection
of the
building
composed
of volumetric
modules
manufactured
in Poland.
Fig.
7. A
multi-family
Wyndham
Road
building
in London,
erected
in the
Free-Dom
Buma
Building
System
technology
and
designed
by PCKO
Architects.
Fig.
8. A
four-storey
multi-family
Barling
Court
building
in London,
made
of volumetric
modules
and
erected
within
four
days.
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