![Technical Studies Lecture Series: Bruce Bell + Oliver Thomas [Facit Technologies] “Mobile Micro Factory” | Thursday, November 21 at 18:00 (GMT), M416 Robin Evans Room + Livestream](http://www.openstudiowestminster.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/08_FACIT-1.png)
When: Thursday, 21st of November 2024 at 6pm (GMT)
Where: M416 (Robin Evans Room), Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS + Online
Amidst a housing crisis and growing sustainability demands, developers have a significant opportunity to embrace new ways of working. Facit offers a viable alternative model to factory-built homes or the traditional construction methods by bringing digital technology to the construction site, which means less labour, more predictability, less design constraints and lower capital expenditure. [Facit Technologies]
Facit Homes were established in 2011 as the world’s first home manufacturer to use a purely digital design and production process. Since featuring on Grand Designs as “the world’s first computer-cut house” – Facit have gone on to become an established, industry-leading company, delivering award-winning low carbon homes across the UK.
In 2024 Facit Technologies was launched and Facit’s Mobile Micro Factory was unveiled in partnership with Tharsus. The Mobile Micro Factory semi-automates the CNC fabrication process, with each factory able to locally manufacture 100 homes a year whilst reducing associated transportation CO2 emissions by 90%. The Facit construction approach uses sustainably sourced sheet-ply to form the Facit Chassis, a hollow box wall and floor system that is structural, with voids filled for thermal and acoustic insulation.
w.f.mclean@westminster.ac.uk – For details contact Will McLean