Bathroom And Kitchen Pods for Offsite Answer

Bathroom and kitchen pods for offsite solutions aids the need for faster completion times throughout the UK while maintaining quality assurance.

The drive for pods will result from an increased requirement for faster construction time from key end use applications. These include student accommodation, hotels, and high-rise apartment buildings.

Purpose built student accommodation took up a 32% share by volume of the kitchen & bathroom pods market in 2021. This is slightly surpassed by residential new housing, which accounted for 34%, followed by hotels and care homes.

Abdul Tantouch, the editor of the Kitchen & Bathroom Pods Market Report shares:

“It is now recognised that offsite building methods and the use of pods is key to accelerating the development of new housing in the UK, specifically the construction of build-to-rent and build-to-sale apartments.

Bathroom and Kitchen Pods Preferred in Student Accommodation and Hotel Projects

“Factors that are driving pod market growth include the urgent need to increase affordable housing supply.

The considerable shortage of skilled construction trades, a rise in UK pod manufacturing capacity and an increase in the number of practical pod solutions to suit many end-use sectors and price-points.”

It is shower-room pods that account for the largest share of the bathroom & kitchen pods market with 50% of the market by volume.

It is worth noting that this sub-sector of the market is highly influenced by the demand for wetroom solutions.

Pod materials by type are divided into 3 sections: 

• GRP composite
• Steel framed
• Concrete

GRP composite and steel-framed pods account for a combined volume share of almost 90%. These can offer a more practical, lightweight solution than concrete.

After a considerable drop in 2020, the bathroom and kitchen pods industry rebounded in 2021 with an estimated 11% value growth.

Moving forward, this market continues to offer significant growth potential as an offsite building solution.