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, ...

A crane is used to piece together a modular home on a plot in the Capital Region by Farrell Homes, a modular home builder based in Grafton. Janine Smith had a plot of land and big plans to build a new ...

UPDATE, Monday, August 5, 2019: The next chapter in the arms race to build the tallest hotel using modular construction is under way, though doubts remain on the method’s merit. With about $65 million ...

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 ...

When Minneapolis’ housing authority put out a request to build affordable housing at scale across the city, eight teams of designers, developers and architects submitted proposals. The winning bid: a ...

A garden studio created using the U-Build system by Studio Bark with bespoke Western Red Cedar cladding. The words modular, self-build and adaptable often pose as challenges within the construction ...

Commercial real estate experts forecast increasing demand for modular construction in the healthcare, industrial, education and multifamily sectors. “If modular goes mainstream, more manufacturing ...

The word “modular” may conjure images of job-site trailers and portable classrooms. But permanent modular construction is a different animal, one that has benefited considerably from the integration ...

GOODFIELD, Ill. — With continued supply chain delays and labor shortages, demand for new home construction over the past two years has drastically outpaced supply. But one slice of the industry that ...