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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Modular building could reduce construction costs, making building new homes more affordable. Modular building, a method for rapidly constructing housing stock, offers a solution to alleviate the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

With a surge in global population projected to double the number of buildings over the next 30 years, modular construction emerges as a sustainable solution to claim a significant share of the $373 ...

Modular building, if brought to scale, has the potential to reduce construction costs and make building new homes more affordable, especially in areas experiencing severe affordable housing shortages.