It may not be sexy to anyone but engineers, but the central utility plant (CUP) is a vital component of any hospital facility. A significant first cost and a driver of long-term operational costs for ...

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 ...

Modular and panelized construction is trending up for residential and commercial builds. We talked with three companies seeing increased demand for their products and services. Factory prefab can ...

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 ...

For the past five years, the construction industry has struggled to keep projects on time and on budget. Every change order can push schedules back by months, even years, leaving developers exposed to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Modular building could reduce construction costs, making building new homes more affordable. Modular building, a method for rapidly constructing housing stock, offers a solution to alleviate the ...

Sungrow won this year’s pv magazine Award for inverters. We caught up with Moritz Rolf – the company’s director of central, eastern and northern Europe – to hear about the functions of the winning ...

Urban, market-rate housing that lower-income workers can actually afford is one of our country’s biggest needs. For multifamily designers, this challenge presents several opportunities for creating ...

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.