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.

Walking down the assembly line as the bell dings, marking a lunch break, Ken Semler points to a man carefully sealing the frame of a house with foam as evidence that this factory can build houses ...

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 ...

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

MANSFIELD, Texas, Dec. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Design-build construction firm Ramtech Building Systems of Mansfield, TX, announced the completion of a state-of-the-art 26,880 square foot two-story ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writes on housing innovation for sustainability and affordability. Inside Model/Z’s facility, local labor works to build ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...