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Luit is a recovering architect whose first job was to design high rise public housing in Singapore in the early 90s where he took part in upgrading programmes where residents were given an extra room by bolting on a precast module onto older blocks all done without residents leaving their homes, this is where he was converted to the cause of MMC and prefabrication

Having served out two contracts of two years each -he then returned to London do a Masters in Computers and Design which was slightly pointless but very enjoyable, from there he tried to reintegrate into the community but found London too cold and grey so fled back to Singapore where he worked in the private sector designing high rise private condominiums, retail, culture and leisure projects.

He then helped to set up a Diploma in Interior Design at Singapore Polytechnic where he was a lecturer in Computers and Design, and then having run out of excuses to stay, fled back to London to complete his professional qualifications, and worked for Aedas, SOM, Broadway Malyan and PLP Architecture before joining the London team of Dalian Wanda setting up the One Nine Elms Project as Design Director. When it became clear the then owner of the business had no intention of using a Tier One contractor to build this landmark project he then joined Mace as a design manager to build out a vacant plot on the former Olympics Village site in Stratford. This proved to be an amazing opportunity to try out a totally untested method of building high towers in UK where a “Jump Factory” comprising of a 5 story “Factory in the sky” which was used to build several floors at once eventually hitting one floor per week before finally topping out. Precast columns and slabs were used and were craned up to the factory and then laid out within the safe clean environment which was sitting on 4 jacks on guide rails at four corners of each tower.

Meanwhile, whilst working as an architect in London he tricked his wife into moving out of London by promising a paradise in the suburbs. He bought a Richard Rogers house in the legendary metropolis of Milton Keynes in 2009, which was a groundbreaking award winning development of timber SIPS panel eco-houses. Unfortunately within a couple of years, all the houses started to leak and fail and he led a residents group of which he was one of the ringleaders, that forced the developer to come back and address the problem, this led to all the residents being moved out of their house for a year or more at the builders cost, while the houses were more or less rebuilt. Despite this trauma he still believes that MMC is the way forward to resolve the UK housing crisis and is excited about the future. His latest obsession is using chemically altered timber known as Superwood to build timber towers.