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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

The UK's crisis really looks like the results of a period when 'systems built' facilities were all the rage in the public sector (and more widely).

In the 1970s, prefabricated buildings seemed to offer the solution to assembling functional buildings.

Of course, there were two problems:

a. They were never meant to last forever & so without maintenance & component renewal a crisis of stability was always going to happen;

b. in many cases they were badly constructed anyway!