Does Modular Actually Save Money?

Factory cost, groundworks, craneage and the honest comparison

Whether modular saves money is never a question in the abstract. It is whether, for this scheme, on this site and at this scale, the full cost of building offsite comes in below the full cost of building traditionally, once every consequence is counted. This book teaches you to answer that honestly. It explains why developers lose money on modular by comparing the wrong numbers: the factory quote against the traditional build cost, forgetting the crane, the groundworks, the transport, the funding gap and the programme. You will learn the numbers that matter, where to find reliable data for free, and how to avoid an inflated end value. The full cost stack is where the honest comparison happens, and the appraisal is then stress-tested for a bad month, a void and a rate rise. A worked example appraises one small scheme both ways, and the final chapter gives you a repeatable calculator and names the legal questions it cannot answer. Next in this series: “Warranties, Lenders and Building Control”.

What’s inside

• The only numbers that actually matter
• Where to find reliable local data for free
• Working out true income, not optimistic income
• The full cost stack nobody mentions
• Stress-testing for the bad month, the void, the rate rise
• A complete worked example, start to finish
• Your deal calculator, and the legal questions it cannot answer

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