The Modular Building Institute recently revealed the winners of its annual Awards of Distinction contest. There were 42 winners in all across six categories: Permanent Modular, Relocatable Modular, ...
The concept of modular construction may seem foreign to some, but it is gaining traction as a safe and efficient means of building. In fact, COVID accelerated the pace of prefabrication and modular ...
In recent years, researchers and companies have been exploring new ways to improve buildings through analytics software, prefabrication, connected devices, new materials and construction automation.
BRATTLEBORO — With the state investing tens of millions of dollars in housing for working folks and their families, Vermont is bracing for a sort of housing boom. “The Vermont Housing Finance ...
Heating and cooling buildings is a major consumer of energy, especially older ones that weren’t built with modern energy efficiencies in mind. Now, engineers at Fraunhofer Institute have developed a ...
Business-to-business rental company McGrath RentCorp (MGRC) has agreed to acquire Design Space Modular Buildings PNW for a total cash consideration of $260 million. McGrath RentCorp estimates the ...
A modular building unit is lifted by a crane. Modular buildings can offer a quicker and easier way to put up buildings, but adoption of the construction method is being limited by data and logistics ...
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, ...
For the past five years, the construction industry has struggled to keep projects on time and on budget. Every change order can push schedules back by months, even years, leaving developers exposed to ...