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Could standardising housing drive down the prices?

When the Facts Change

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The Consequences of Working in Isolation

There were often dozens of different sizes of windows on a single project, but you've managed to pair that down to a smaller number. You also use standardised appliances so that as the owner of a build to rent development, you have maintenance people and managers who don't have to find spare parts for multiple types of appliances. Yeah, we're very clever. Our first project, we had 50 apartments and 21 different sized ranch loaders to our balconies. That's how silly we were. And some of these windows were like 30mm different from the one next door to it in height for no good reason whatsoever. The knowledge at the coal face in our industry is the great untapped resource

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