The Daily Dose #312 | Building homes like cars: Pryda's Truss House, with Adam Dawson from Pryda

Every builder is up against the same question right now. How do you build more homes, faster, without dropping quality or blowing the margin?

This episode makes the case for answering it differently. Az sits down with Adam Dawson, engineering and builder solutions manager at Pryda and a chartered engineer, to unpack why the industry stays stuck treating every home as a one off project, and what changes when you start building in systems instead.

At the centre is Truss House, Pryda's framing system that turns the structural shell of a home, the roof, wall and floor, into a set of standard engineered components. Adam explains the shift from project thinking to product thinking, using the car industry as the model of fixed, flexi and free. He walks through what it means on site, where the real bottlenecks in housing supply actually sit, and why total build cost matters more than the price of a set of frames.

The numbers Adam shares are hard to ignore. Homes framed in a couple of hours. A transportable prototype from Major Timber and Trusses stood and braced in 52 minutes. A wall system that lands close to a 10 star home before you touch the detailing.

It is one of the most forward looking conversations the podcast has run, and a real look at what building like a manufacturer could mean for builders across Australia and New Zealand.

Learn more: https://pryda.com.au/trusshouse/

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