In a small shop on Industrial Drive in Haven, a new manufacturing business opened late last year where employees weld, saw and create small pre-built structures to ship across the nation. National ...

Its use has tripled its share in less than a decade. We wanted to find out why. Modular building, in multifamily and elsewhere, continues to gain steam. The market share for permanent modular ...

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 ...

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 ...

Moving a wall of the home from the production area to storage, to be used later on the rail system shown, in the factory of Apex Homes, in Middleburg, Pa. on Oct. 12. Moving a wall of the home from ...

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 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 ...

Resia’s latest apartment complex in Florida opened with a twist: Its kitchens and bathrooms were manufactured 500 miles away in Georgia. The vertically integrated developer is among a growing cohort ...

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 ...

Developers and New York City are building homes in factories and propping them up on vacant lots in the outer boroughs. Proponents say it can significantly cut down on construction time—and create ...

Unitized framing assemblies being manufactured at Findorff’s Madison, Wis., prefabrication facility, which also makes unitized plumbing racks. The shop also sorts and assembles materials and divides ...

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 ...