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 ...

VBC says its steel modular system supports towers up to 35 stories, targeting high cost urban infill markets and labor gaps.

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 ...

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

Last week, 461 Dean became the world's tallest modular building. Designed by New York architecture firm SHoP, the Brooklyn residential tower consists of 363 pre-fab apartments that stack like Tetris ...

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, ...

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 ...

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A 14-story luxury apartment block in central Bergen, Norway, will be the world's tallest timber-framed multifamily project, at 49 meters (160 feet). The current record-holder, Melbourne's Forté ...

Students will learn sustainable building principles at a seriously green new academic building at Universidad EAN. The 215,278 square foot building in Bogotá, Colombia will feature the endlessly ...