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Europe has a housing crisis and a construction industry that can't keep up. Is modular construction, homes built in factories ...

Modular construction remains a booming trend across the contracting world. Modular design helps solve housing shortages, speeds up construction, and addresses rebuilding work after natural disasters.

At the intersection of tiny houses and container homes are prefab homes: technically mobile houses that promise to be the sum of all the great things from either category, and zero minuses. This one ...

The term “prefab” in home construction has evolved from a whispered notion to a resounding declaration of innovation. Prefabricated homes were once considered outliers; now, they stand as the future ...

The idea is not new. Author John Steinbeck wrote about it in the 1950s with his book, "Travels With Charlie" and architect Moshe Safdie designed a community of 146 residences for the 1967 Montreal ...

Members of the Jamestown City Council held a moment of silence in honor of the more than 3000 lives lost during the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, preceding the councils working meeting Monday ...

Modular construction makes it possible to assemble an entire room, apartment or even a full floor of a building at a factory.

Modular housebuilding was supposed to be the clean, green, fast and friendly solution to the UK's housing supply problem. Yet one by one, the UK's pioneer modular housebuilders are falling by the ...

Thanks to awareness-raising initiatives like the Ice Bucket Challenge, we all have a better appreciation of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and its debilitating effects. The progressive ...

What does the future look like? That's the endless, perpetually-answer-less riddle, so you can understand the never-ending fascination with it. According to one team of designers and engineers, the ...