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. There are about 33,000 registered architects in Britain.
 . Britain consists of almost 26 million households in 2009.
 . Let us assume that architects want to produce homes for all.
 . Shared equally that is a clientele of 785 households for every architect.
 . Assuming homes last 60 years each architect should replace 13 a year.
 . More than 240,000 new households want to form every year.
 . That requires at least 7 new homes every year by every architect.
 . Each year every architect should produce 20 homes to house Britain.
 . Not all architects are working in the housing sector of course.
 . Assume an architect produced 60 homes a year, or 5 a month.
 . Then 11,000 architects should be busy producing housing.
 . That would occupy a third of the profession housing everyone.
 . Every year 60 x 11,000 architect designed homes would be built.
 . Housing production should be 660,000 homes a year.
 . In 1968 Britain built nearly 414,000 homes as a post-war peak.
 . The year the housing bubble burst almost 200,000 homes were built.
 . In 2008 to 2009 production will be halved to around 100,000.
 . That is 15% of the number of homes that are required annually.
 . The market for materials should be many times larger than it is.
 . A bigger materials sector would boost Research and Development.
 . 560,000 necessary homes are not being built every year.
 . 131,000 households are forced to share, and perhaps overcrowd.
 . Each year 429,000 of the oldest existing homes are not replaced.
 . Existing housing consumes energy at an average of 300 kWh/m2 per year.
 . Architects must follow the 34 categories of the Code for Sustainable Homes.
 . New homes can have a better performance than 100 kWh/m2 per year.
 . British homes are an average of 75m2 internally, and are not spacious.
 . 660,000 x 75 x 100 = 4.95 billion kWh could be total annual energy used.
 . Actual energy = [(100,000 x 75 x 100) + (429,000 x 75 x 300)] kWh a year.
 . That is instead 10.4 billion kWh consumed in 529,000 homes a year.
 . Year on year the failure to produce enough homes wastes 5.45 billion kWh.
 . That lack of building also leaves 262,000 households sharing.
 . Most of the 100,000 homes built this year will not involve an architect.
The profession should be arguing to produce 660,000 homes for all.