'Housing providers often talk about advances in industrial building techniques being utilised in their industry. But there appears to be little evidence of this in the market with most low to medium density housing still being produced using traditional materials and trades, and extensive sub-contracting. Yet one area of small-scale building provision, the commercial factory building, does show signs of the advances in industrialised building techniques. Why? Because the commercial imperative allows one to ignore history, style and aesthetics, and to concentrate on buildings as physical systems expected to have certain measurable outcomes. However many of the current topical issues in housing are measurable in some way. Issues such as affordability, sustainability and flexibility of use are essentially quantitative topics and warrant rational attention. '

This house in Crawley is an example of Professor Anderson's research into developing alternative housing prototypes in low-to medium-densities, 'through systematically utilising the current techniques of the commercial factory building.'

Source: Geoffrey London and Simon Anderson, TAKE 7: Housing Australia: How Architects Can Make a Difference, (ACT: Manuka, Australian Institute of Architects, 2008), 16.