CIMC Modular Building Systems | out of the ground” at the end of 2015 as part of Marriott’s national rollout. CIMC is also currently working on three different Hilton projects on a very similar scale to that one, which bodes well for the company considering that the hotel sector, in addition tomultistorey residential, aged care and student accommodation, is one of the four areas of the industry they will be zeroing in on moving forward. “The short-term goal is to have an example of a project in each of those market sectors in every capital city in Australia, as well as other examples in regional Australia,” he says. “I think modular will play a significant role in the development of regional Australia given the constraints around getting trades to some of those more remote locations.” Beyond that, CIMC’s long-term goal is to educate the market to the point where modular technology is not only generally accepted throughout the industry, but also well-received by its key players. John affirms that, as industry leaders, it is CIMC’s intention to grow the entire market segment for modular technology in the coming years rather than simply looking out for their own personal interests. “As I said, we would love for the developers, the builders and the banks of Australia to view full volumetric modular construction the same as a brick or precast concrete,” he concludes. “We want to make it a building element that they understand and are happy to see in their development.”
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