Urban, market-rate housing that lower-income workers can actually afford is one of our country’s biggest needs. For multifamily designers, this challenge presents several opportunities for creating ...

Modular house construction can lower project expenses when teams standardize designs, shift more work offsite, coordinate ...

There is no shortage of developers or builders who have tried prefabrication and now swear against it. I hear more and more, “we tried it and it didn’t work.” Yet, some are achieving huge success. But ...

Modular building systems are buildings that are constructed in sections in a factory before being delivered to a site for assembly. Prefab buildings, modular buildings, modular offices, and ...

Modular construction poses unique challenges for mechanical contractors, making it critical that they engage early in the design process to ensure system reliability.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Covers the future of sustainable, resilient and affordable housing. In the midst of an ongoing housing crisis, more attention is ...

Unlike traditional building methodologies, modular design offers a degree of flexibility, efficiency, and scalability that is rarely paralleled. The true measure of a modular residence's worth lies in ...

R2 Building’s plant in Mexico produces steel-framed modules for low- and high-rise residential buildings. Image credit: Courtesy of Webcor and R2 Building The modular construction market in North ...

New York’s modular dream is, albeit in fit and starts, coming true. The increasingly popular process of modular construction involves fabricating structural components — a k a modules — in a factory, ...

When considering the building blocks of your plant, imagine actual building blocks. “The principle of modularity is best explained by Lego building blocks,” said Jakob Dück, global industry segment ...