On May 1, 2026, the Central Coast City Shaping Summit, organized by Business NSW (the New South Wales Chamber of Commerce, Australia), was successfully held at the Gosford RSL Club in Gosford, NSW. The summit attracted over 160 attendees, bringing together a diverse group of stakeholders including New South Wales and Federal government officials, local council representatives, industry leaders, financial institutions, and developers. Key topics covered during the event included housing supply, regional development, healthcare infrastructure, and modular construction.

As a leading advanced manufacturing enterprise in the field of Modular Integrated Construction (MiC) globally, AluHouse was honored to be invited to participate. Through a keynote speech and a roundtable discussion, AluHouse showcased its innovative practices in global modular construction and scalable housing delivery.

The summit brought together senior Australian local government officials and industry experts. A clear consensus emerged among attendees that the Gosford and Central Coast regions are poised to benefit from multiple development advantages, including healthcare, housing, higher education, high-speed rail, and urban renewal, collectively entering a period of rapid construction and increased investment.

At the summit, NSW MP Liesl Tesch, Federal MP Gordon Reid, and Mayor Lawrie McKinna jointly affirmed their commitment to advancing the crucial bridge-widening project across the river. This initiative aims to enhance critical transport connectivity between the Central Business District (CBD), schools, hospitals, research institutions, and university campuses, thereby providing significant support for long-term regional economic growth.

At the summit, Mr. Eric Kwong, Founder and Chairman of AluHouse, delivered a keynote speech titled “AluHouse Modular Building System – Innovative Practice for High-Efficiency and Scalable Affordable Housing.” Using the SS N520 Transitional Housing project in Hong Kong as a practical case study, he systematically introduced AluHouse’s modular building system’s design philosophy, standardized production processes, and its application in the social welfare housing sector. This project delivered over 16,000 modular units, fully demonstrating AluHouse’s core capabilities and mature experience in high-efficiency, scalable, and high-quality affordable housing delivery.

He highlighted that the modular production model not only shortens construction cycles and enhances quality control but also effectively reduces construction costs, enabling large-scale housing delivery. AluHouse’s ability to achieve this is underpinned by its continuous investment in and optimization of a full-chain manufacturing system: Through supply chain integration, it achieves synergistic efficiency from design and procurement to production and logistics; through intelligent manufacturing upgrades, it introduces automated production lines and digital management systems, enhancing product manufacturing precision and capacity stability.

Leveraging this systematic manufacturing capability, AluHouse has successfully delivered numerous landmark modular projects in Hong Kong, cumulatively completing the high-quality production and installation of tens of thousands of modular units, thus fully validating its delivery prowess in large-scale, high-density urban environments. This system is particularly well-suited for large-scale affordable housing construction, offering Australian governments and developers a rapid, efficient, and high-quality alternative solution.

In the subsequent roundtable discussion, AluHouse Chairman Eric Kwong, along with Alisha Filmer, Chief Project Officer of Homes NSW, and Kevin Stanley, National Director, Property Market Economics at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, engaged in an in-depth dialogue on the theme “Modern Methods of Construction: Rethinking the Way We Build” (MMC).

During the discussion, Eric Kwong shared AluHouse’s innovative practices in modular production technology, as well as its experience in compliant implementation within the Australian and U.S. markets. He highlighted that modular construction, through industrialised production, standardised systems, and rapid on-site assembly, achieves a dual enhancement in construction efficiency and engineering quality. It offers stable and reliable solutions for large-scale affordable housing projects, serving as a crucial pathway to alleviate local housing shortages.

Addressing the widely discussed issue of employment within the industry, Eric Kwong offered unique insights from an industry-level perspective. He pointed out that modular construction is not a replacement for local labor but rather a structural optimization and upgrade of labor division within the traditional construction industry. This model shifts a significant portion of outdoor, high-intensity, and high-risk on-site construction processes to a controlled factory environment. Simultaneously, it fosters deep collaboration with local consultant teams, general contractors, third-party inspection agencies, and professional installation companies, achieving supply chain synergy rather than substitution. It does not displace local construction workers; instead, it creates new, full-chain job roles encompassing design, manufacturing, logistics, assembly, and inspection. This drives the upskilling of the workforce from traditional on-site construction to industrialised, digitalised, and systematised approaches, leading to a more stable, safer, and higher-quality employment structure for the regional construction industry.

In the subsequent roundtable discussion, AluHouse Chairman Eric Kwong, along with Alisha Filmer, Chief Project Officer of Homes NSW, and Kevin Stanley, National Director, Property Market Economics at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, engaged in an in-depth dialogue on the theme “Modern Methods of Construction: Rethinking the Way We Build” (MMC).

During the discussion, Eric Kwong shared AluHouse’s innovative practices in modular production technology, as well as its experience in compliant implementation within the Australian and U.S. markets. He highlighted that modular construction, through industrialised production, standardised systems, and rapid on-site assembly, achieves a dual enhancement in construction efficiency and engineering quality. It offers stable and reliable solutions for large-scale affordable housing projects, serving as a crucial pathway to alleviate local housing shortages.

Addressing the widely discussed issue of employment within the industry, Eric Kwong offered unique insights from an industry-level perspective. He pointed out that modular construction is not a replacement for local labor but rather a structural optimization and upgrade of labor division within the traditional construction industry. This model shifts a significant portion of outdoor, high-intensity, and high-risk on-site construction processes to a controlled factory environment. Simultaneously, it fosters deep collaboration with local consultant teams, general contractors, third-party inspection agencies, and professional installation companies, achieving supply chain synergy rather than substitution. It does not displace local construction workers; instead, it creates new, full-chain job roles encompassing design, manufacturing, logistics, assembly, and inspection. This drives the upskilling of the workforce from traditional on-site construction to industrialised, digitalised, and systematised approaches, leading to a more stable, safer, and higher-quality employment structure for the regional construction industry.