As with all technology, modular frame building systems (MFBS) continue to advance. In 2009, Swenson Say Faget completed the 10-story Ballard at the Park mixed-use project with Security Properties and ...

VBC says its steel modular system supports towers up to 35 stories, targeting high cost urban infill markets and labor gaps.

This steel system could change the way prefab buildings are built. Julian Bowron, designer of the Metaloq steel framing system, used a term I had not heard since 2015: "tolerance accumulation." It's ...

Last week, 461 Dean became the world's tallest modular building. Designed by New York architecture firm SHoP, the Brooklyn residential tower consists of 363 pre-fab apartments that stack like Tetris ...

Modular building solutions are gaining popularity across all property sectors, including multifamily. Modular construction is a process in which components of a building are constructed off-site, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The director of government affairs for the Modular Building Institute says the technology can create housing fast—if it can work ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wisconsin-based The Boldt Group, a general contractor and manufacturer with 18 offices nationwide, has launched a modular and prefabrication company called Bildt that makes and installs buildings, ...

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.

After nearly a year of negotiations with the union locals and two months of prototyping in the factory, the developer of the $4.9-billion Atlantic Yards sports village in Brooklyn, N.Y., has given ...

CPAC Modular, a manufacturer of modular buildings, today broke ground on its new €16 million manufacturing facility in Dunshaughlin, Co Meath. Situated on a 22-acre greenfield site, the company said ...