A new ground-breaking concept of affordable homes by a company called \u2018Boxabl\u2019 has hit the world stage by storm. Boxabl have created an innovative low-cost product originally called the \u201ccasita\u201d. The casita is claimed to be an affordable pre-fabricated home which is delivered flat packed and amazingly can be assembled within 2 hours ready for immediate use. It comes with fixtures and fittings such as a fitted bathroom, kitchen fitted with appliances such as a cooker, microwave, fridge, breakfast bar seated area for two, a bathroom with shower cubicle, basin and toilet, a living room area with TV, and bedroom area, eco lighting, heating and air condition. All for the modest price of $50,000. Could this be the solution to the world\u2019s housing crisis? Please answer the following Assignment Objectives to find out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A new ground-breaking concept of affordable homes by a company called \u2018Boxabl\u2019 has hit the world stage by storm. Boxabl have created an innovative low-cost product originally called the \u201ccasita\u201d. The casita is claimed to be an affordable pre-fabricated home which is delivered flat packed and amazingly can be assembled within 2 hours ready for immediate use. It comes with fixtures and fittings such as a fitted bathroom, kitchen fitted with appliances such as a cooker, microwave, fridge, breakfast bar seated area for two, a bathroom with shower cubicle, basin and toilet, a living room area with TV, and bedroom area, eco lighting, heating and air condition. All for the modest price of $50,000. Could this be the solution to the world\u2019s housing crisis? Please answer the following Assignment Objectives to find out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. <\/strong>Assuming you were \u2018headhunted\u2019 to work as an assistant project manager for Boxabl UK (or in a country of your choice), produce a project plan (i.e. a schedule or Gantt Chart) to illustrate what you propose would be a \u2018workable plan\u2019 to convince your local government to buy a minimum of 150 affordable homes to solve the housing crisis in the local community. You should include in the plan the main activities and tasks involved and timescales to complete them. Justify youranswer (Learning Outcome 5).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. <\/strong>Conduct a PESTEL analysis to examine the external environmental factors that could impact on the long-term sustainability of Boxabl\u2019s production of affordable houses, drawing on evidence from the literature to justify your answer (Learning Outcome 1).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. <\/strong>Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of two planning tools that could be used to help monitor and control the status of the orders for the \u2018casitas\u2019 or dwellings, from Boxabl\u2019s global customers.Use evidence from the literature to justify your<\/p>\n\n\n\n answer (Learning outcome 2).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. <\/strong>Critically assess who the stakeholders are involved in affordable housing schemes and discuss strategies as to how Boxabl should manage them. Conduct a stakeholder analysis to help you.(Learning Outcome 3).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. <\/strong>Discuss which project methodology would be more suitable for the design and manufacture of Boxabl\u2019s affordable homes. Justify your answer drawing on evidence from the literature and examples from other types of affordable dwellings (Learning Outcome 4).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new ground-breaking concept of affordable homes by a company called \u2018Boxabl\u2019 has hit the world stage by storm. Boxabl have created […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n