NAMPA — As Rick Murdock walked through Autovol Volumetric Modular’s 400,000-square-foot Nampa factory, he pointed out what separates the company from others. Autovol’s CEO and co-founder described how ...

Modular design and construction has been around for decades, yet evaluating its long-term viability for multifamily is complex. Some indicators suggest that modular is steadily gaining traction in the ...

The MiTek Modular Initiative, which has backing from Warren Buffett’s conglomerate, is betting big on modular construction—something few companies have been able to navigate successfully. Now, a new ...

Pre-COVID times, I attended an AEC industry summit in which there was a panel of experts consisting of a property developer, an investment advisor, a real-estate consultant, an architect, and a ...

In November, the world got its first glimpse of a modular housing prototype from Skender, a Chicago-based construction firm. The module was remarkably complete. It included a kitchen, a bathroom, a ...

QUINCY — Like a real-life game of Legos, a crane hoisting building blocks into place at 1500 Hancock St. has built Nova Quincy, the newest apartment building to rise over the downtown. The top five ...

For decades, modular construction has been touted as the next “revolutionary” wave of construction. Instead of putting together structures on a jobsite, where workers are subject to the vagaries of ...

Washington, D.C. — The United States is facing a severe housing affordability crisis, largely due to a lack of supply. A new report from the Center for American Progress examines how modular building, ...

The director of government affairs for the Modular Building Institute says the technology can create housing fast—if it can work through its PR problem. Unlike houses built on-site using framed ...

A bill to fix an 'arcane' code issue in modular housing development failed in committee last month, putting nearly 250 units in limbo and threatening the growing momentum around multifamily modular ...

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 ...

Plans to install a modular building in the grounds of Erskine Sports Centre as part of the relocation of the town's library ...