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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Predicting Our Future is a podcast about the next revolutions in technology, as seen through the eyes of a serial entrepreneur. Below is an edited excerpt from "NYC Goes Modular," the fourth episode ...