> I just spoke clearly about real world regulations that you happen to be unaware of, and could easily look up Coming from a family of structural engineers (sp

> I just spoke clearly about real world regulations that you happen to be unaware of, and could easily look up Coming from a family of structural engineers (specialising in offsite construction, no less) I'm not sure whether to be more amused by the notion that there exists a Europe-wide ban on the use of prefabricated concrete panels, or that broad claims about building regulations are easy to look up! It is true that many 1960s-era system built structures would no longer be compliant, and that regulations governing things such as insulation of dwellings might make cement panel walls designed to be single-skin suboptimal for many use cases but that is not the same thing as a Europe-wide ban on prefabricated concrete panel systems. There's actually a pretty varied market for them. Perhaps your condescension towards the OP was not fury, but merely an attempt to bolster your apparently weak credentials as an expert in European construction. I recommend you discard that strategy in future :-) > In my opinion, what you did here was to say "your claims don't hold up when someone replaces the thing you were talking about with a different thing." Someone more familiar with European offsite construction techniques would interpret the OP's point that low rise construction from manufactured panels like the three different companies mentioned in TFA (two of which do not involve concrete walls) is not a "hip" novelty in Europe, and that timber-framed panels may incorporate a variety of facade systems used to provide equivalent weather protection to cement-like facades [also similar ease of assembly for the most part]. They are, in fact, very similar approaches to speeding up onsite construction I'm not sure my remarks to that effect involved more reinvention of the original argument than your extended analogies to software and 1950s construction. > But sort of the core concept here is that once it's cement-like, that's no longer necessary Cement like material does not have the aesthetics of brick. Which is the chief reason to prefer a panel with a brick-like cladding instead of a lower cost alternative panel. Which is why brick-like skins have a place in panel wall based construction.