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PAS 8700:2025 Modern methods of construction for new-build residential properties. Specification, 2025
- Contents
- Foreword
- 0 Introduction
- 1 Scope
- 2 Normative references
- 3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms
- 3.1 Terms and definitions
- 3.2 Abbreviated terms
- 4 Establishing the delivery team
- 4.1 Competence
- 4.2 Roles and appointments
- 4.3 Supply chain input
- 4.4 Stakeholder consultation
- 5 Integrating MMC into project design
- 5.1 Risk register
- 5.2 Preparation and briefing
- 5.3 Optioneering
- 5.4 Design responsibility
- 5.5 System selection
- 5.6 Sustainability targets and embodied carbon
- 5.7 Future adaptation
- 5.8 Design freeze
- 5.9 Standardization
- 5.10 Technical design information
- 5.11 Information management
- 5.12 Future inspection requirements
- 6 Systems, assemblies and components
- 6.1 System description
- 6.2 Design life, repair and replacement
- 6.3 Resilience and insurability
- 6.4 Structural design
- 6.5 Fire protection and safety
- 6.6 Factory installed cladding
- 6.7 Design for transport and handling
- 6.8 Design for assembly, buildability and lifting
- 7 Deployment and delivery
- 7.1 Factory output and site readiness
- 7.2 Transport planning
- 7.3 Deployment plan and logistics information
- 7.4 Labelling, protection and support
- 7.5 Delivery and safe handling
- 7.6 Off-site storage
- 8 Site construction and assembly
- 8.1 On-site temporary storage and protection
- 8.2 Substructure
- 8.3 Site assembly
- 8.4 Competence requirements for installation and site personnel
- 8.5 Connections
- 8.6 Building envelope
- 8.7 Building services
- 8.8 Identifying and remedying problems and defects
- 9 Testing and inspection
- 9.1 Factory production control
- 9.2 Factory inspections and testing
- 9.3 Site tests and records
- 9.4 Operational checks and testing
- 9.5 Recording information
- 9.6 Commissioning and completion
- 10 Quality and compliance recording
- 11 Completion information
- 11.1 Health and safety information
- 11.2 Home user guide
- Annex A (informative) Insurance considerations
- A.1 Latent defects insurance
- A.2 Buildings/property insurance (annual building insurance)
- Annex B (informative) Briefing checklist for MMC projects
- Annex C (informative) Setting up a project: MMC roles and appointments
- Annex D (normative) Structural MMC design for consequence class 2b and 3 buildings and buildings with alternative structural failure mechanisms
- D.1 Design responsibilities
- D.2 Design reports
- D.3 Specific conditions
- Bibliography
- Table 1 – Approaches to fire safety
- Table B.1 – Briefing checklist
- Table C.1 – MMC roles and appointments
- Figure 1 – Positioning industrialized construction
- Figure 2 – DfMA process through the RIBA Plan of Work
- Figure 3 – Timing and duration of key delivery team appointments
- Figure 4 – MMC technical design activities and interfaces (pre-manufacture, low‑rise housing layout)
- Figure 5 – Chart of MMC handover points and interfaces (low-rise housing layout post manufacture) [Go to Page]