EMIC-GEM, Embracing Modular Innovation in Construction – Getting Education Modernised

The construction industry is experiencing an unprecedented period of rapid change across Europe, wrought by technological advances and socio-economic drivers. Offsite and modular methods of construction (OSM) have been utilised in different ways across Europe and have proven to be cleaner, safer and more productive than traditional building methodologies.

Recent advances in technological processes have brought offsite methodologies into the mainstream, with the associated benefits of addressing the key issues identified above as well as providing a route to lower cost, affordable housing stock.

Our project is predicated on the sharing of best practice, commonality in benchmarking and standardising educator training, sharing of effective pedagogical approaches and resources, and the development of a European network of professionals working and teaching within the field of OSM education.