International News

This news room houses a collection of industry news articles and press releases from various different sources from around the world, click on the links below to read more:

Beyon3D Raises $12.4M and Readies Launch of Robotics for Manufacturing and Construction

23rd September 2021

Beyon3D says its systems could revolutionize global prefab construction industry by streamlining concrete production and costs. This week, Beon3D Ltd. announced “aggressive plans to roll out its groundbreaking manufacturing...

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Bankrupt modular builder Katerra sells factories to rivals

23rd September 2021

Katerra Inc, the modular builder that was founded in 2015 and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2021, has sold its factories in California and Washington State. Philadelphia contractor Volumetric Building Companies (VBC) purchased ...

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Homebuilder develops open-source sustainable building system

12th July 2021

Collective, a Vancouver-based company that designs and builds high-performance eco-friendly homes, is looking to stretch its environmental impact far beyond the handful of projects it completes a year. "It comes down to...

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Broad Group erects 10-storey steel apartment building in 28 hours

18th June 2021

A Chinese manufacturer has once again demonstrated the use of its modular construction method by erecting a 10-storey apartment block in a little over a day. Broad Group accomplished the feat in its home town of Changsha using...

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Warren Buffett targets commercial modular construction

9th June 2021

Warren Buffett is forging further into modular construction, leveraging the Berkshire Hathaway-owned MiTek engineered building products and construction software firm to launch a hybrid offsite-on site building model targeted at...

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Modular construction unicorn Katerra files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

7th June 2021

Katerra Inc, the company set up in 2015 to revolutionise construction with a tech-driven approach to timber prefabrication, has filed for relief under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code. A statement published on the company's...

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The future of construction & improving the quality of the built environment

7th June 2021

If the construction industry was poised for change before, the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed that transformation into overdrive. The industry as a whole has always been reluctant to change, but we've reached a critical point where...

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Latest offsite construction “disruptor” takes on heavyweight tech staff

24th February 2021

A US company launched in November 2020 to offer developers fast modular buildings has brought in heavyweight manufacturing executives, including from Tesla, to develop its engineering and automation capacity. The company,...

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Arup teams up with off-site start-up WoHo to revolutionise modular building

20th November 2020

UK consulting engineer Arup has teamed with Massachusetts off-site construction firm WoHo to make modular building affordable, greener and easier to scale. Arup will help WoHo (short for World Home) to develop solutions in structural,...

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How modular precast construction with Thermomass can improve your bottom line

15th October 2020

When you are looking for a construction method that assures speed, quality and economy, you should consider modular precast concrete construction. Commonly applied in correctional facility projects in the US, modular precast construction is...

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Katerra Names Nick Milestone as Director of Mass Timber

31st March 2020

The former managing director of B&K Structures will focus on integrating mass timber production with Katerra's operations. Nick Milestone, a veteran of the European and United Kingdom mass timber markets and the current chairman of...

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New hospital in Denmark embraces offsite construction

26th March 2020

Latvian-based modular construction company, Forta PRO, has completed the MARS Satellite Radiology Clinic building using offsite construction Forta PRO has finished the MARS Satellite Radiology Clinic building in cooperation with MT...

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Six-storey modular hotel built in Copenhagen in seven days

11th February 2020

Latvian builder Forta Pro has completed an 88-room hotel in Copenhagen seven days after its component parts were shipped from Latvia. The six-storey Go Hotel, located close to Copenhagen airport, has a brick exterior and rooms ranging from...

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Offsite pioneer Katerra to close original component factory in Phoenix

5th December 2019

America's high-tech offsite construction pioneer Katerra is closing its original building-components factory in Phoenix, Arizona at the end of this year, with a loss of 200 jobs. The SoftBank-backed start-up said the 250,000-sq-ft...

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World’s tallest modular hotel goes up in New York, with help from Autodesk

26th November 2019

New York City construction company Skystone is erecting the world's tallest modular hotel using Autodesk software for project delivery. The AC Marriott New York on 6th Avenue will have 168 rooms over 26 storeys. ...

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Prefab builder Katerra picked for tech office block in India

26th November 2019

Silicon Valley-headquartered prefab builder Katerra has been selected by a developer in Bengaluru (Bangalore), India to design and manufacture a 10-storey office block in the city. Vaishnavi Tech Square, commissioned by developer...

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European consortium forms to “take multi-storey timber mainstream”

18th October 2019

Armed with €10m in EU funding, a consortium of 21 European companies and organisations has formed to try and make timber the material of choice for multi-storey buildings instead of steel and concrete. Their aim over the next four...

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Lessons in Collaboration

12th October 2019

In our continuing exploration of offsite manufacture from around the world we take a look at the construction of an innovative learning centre at Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne. Roy Hoult AM, a respected member of the local...

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Modular Marvels

11th October 2019

Earlier this year Singapore's Clement Canopy assumed the position of the world's tallest modular building. Built by Dragages Singapore and designed by ADDP Architects, the residential towers surpassed the 135-metre tower at George Street,...

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Katerra opens new factory, boosts leadership team

10th October 2019

Silicon Valley-headquartered, high-tech prefabricated builder Katerra has opened its new factory in Spokane Valley, Washington, which it claims will be one of the biggest producers of cross-laminated timber (CLT) products in the US. A...

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Digital twins: Taking modular construction to the next level

7th October 2019

In the past 20 years, the construction industry has fallen behind in digitalization, especially in the use of data and analytics or artificial intelligence. During Bill's time as chief digital officer of GE and Daryl's 25 years of industrial design,...

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New Zealand plans offsite drive to meet soaring housing demand

20th September 2019

The New Zealand government has announced a boost in offsite manufacturing to bolster construction of new homes. The government says it is connecting offsite manufacturing companies to its KiwiBuild initiative, an affordable housing plan...

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Prefab specialist Katerra buys two American contractors

15th September 2019

US prefabrication specialist Katerra has added two contractors to its stable of companies: UEB Builders and Fortune-Johnson General Contractors. The acquisitions allow the Silicon Valley company to expand its coverage of the...

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Autodesk: Why we're investing in a modular construction company

20th August 2019

Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, the perfect storm of imperfect zoning laws, low construction productivity, and population increases have created housing shortages and price escalation that make it impossible for many families to find...

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Commercial buildings: The next frontier for modular and prefab?

20th August 2019

In recent years we've been hearing more and more about modular and prefab buildings. Stunning cliffside homes built in mere weeks, sustainable and functional schools ready to be stacked to the sky as cohorts grow. These are...

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McKinsey: UK is a growth market for modular

18th August 2019

There are signs that modular construction is finally due to disrupt markets across the world with the UK one of the principal markets for growth. That's according to a new report from global management consultant McKinsey & Co...

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Autodesk invests in modular construction start-up Factory_OS

13th August 2019

Software corporation Autodesk is partnering with Factory_OS, a modular construction startup in San Francisco, California. With this investment, Autodesk is supporting the build out of Factory_OS’ Factory Floor Learning Center, a...

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Prefab housing company Katerra hires oilfield tech boss as COO

12th August 2019

Silicon Valley-based prefab housing company Katerra has appointed the former boss of oilfield technology giant Schlumberger as its chief operating officer, a new post. Paal Kibsgaard, previously chairman and chief executive of...

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450 unit modular residential complex planned for Prague

8th August 2019

Dutch designer Benthem Crouwel Architects and Czech architect RA15 have been unanimously selected for a residential project in Prague, which will feature a large publicly accessible park. Some 160 candidates registered for the...

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Modular building could halve project time in construction industry

6th August 2019

Modular construction could transform the construction market, offering possible savings of up to 20% while significantly reducing the construction time by up to 50%. The process would involve part of the building process being shifted to...

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Construction of world’s tallest modular building complete

19th July 2019

Bouygues Batiment International construction company has together with their modular construction laboratory Dragages Singapore, completed the construction of the 459 feet Clement Canopy buildings in Singapore. With its completion,...

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Bouygues uses volumetric construction to slash build time for Singaporean twin towers

11th July 2019

A team led by a subsidiary of French contractor Bouygues Bâtiment International has completed two Singaporean towers 21 months ahead of schedule by using prefabricated units, the first time the technique has been used on this scale. ...

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£90m deal brings Japan's biggest house builder into the modular market

5th July 2019

• £90m investment boost to the UK housing market • Sekisui take a 35% equity stake in Urban Splash's modular House business • Investment will deliver new housing stock using modern methods of construction  Japan's biggest...

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World’s tallest modular building rises in Singapore

5th July 2019

The state has been pushing for improvements in construction management. Two 40-storey residential towers in Singapore were built with nearly 1,900 prefabricated modules. Image: Courtesy of Bouygues Bâtiment International ...

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Katerra wins contract to build homes for disadvantaged families across Saudi Arabia

14th June 2019

Firm has 5,000 employees, six factories and is said to be involved in 700 projects across the US and India Offsite construction start-up Katerra has been awarded a contract by the Saudi Ministry of Housing to build 4,101 residential...

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Revealing designs for the world’s tallest hybrid timber tower

3rd June 2019

A Vancouver (British Columbia) developer has proposed a mass timber, Passive House skyscraper that could be the world’s tallest wood tower. Delta Land Corporation is working with architect Peter Busby from Perkins + Will to design the 35 to...

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Offsite construction start-up Entekra set for expansion

20th May 2019

US offsite construction start-up, Entekra, has selected Modesto for its new $35m manufacturing factory, which will see annual production capacity boosted by 3,000 units and the creation of 250 new jobs Entekra has headquarters...

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Marriott to build world’s tallest modular hotel in New York

20th May 2019

Hotel chain Marriott is to begin work on the world's tallest modular hotel in New York City this autumn. Designed by US firm Danny Forster & Architecture, the AC Hotel New York NoMad will be 26 storeys tall, 110m high, and is expected...

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Japanese prefab housing giant reveals defects in thousands of homes

20th May 2019

Daiwa House Industry Co., one of Japan's leading manufacturers of prefabricated homes, has said construction defects have been found in some 2,000 buildings, comprising around 7,000 individual households around the country. At a news...

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World’s tallest timber building completed in Norway

20th May 2019

Mjøstårnet, a mixed-use building in Brumunddal, southeastern Norway, has been declared the world's tallest timber building by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). The 85.4m-tall, 18-storey mixed-use...

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Canadian developer plans world’s tallest timber tower for Vancouver

20th May 2019

Vancouver developer Delta Land Corporation is planning to challenge for the title of world's tallest timber tower with a mass timber, Passive House design by US architect Perkins + Will. The Canada Earth Tower is intended for...

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The 'Lego' trend in architecture

17th April 2019

In the age of hyper-globalization, it seems that pretty much anything can be outsourced. Well, not anything. I mean, you couldn't build an American hotel or apartment building in China or Eastern Europe, right? In the city of...

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Benefits of modular construction

16th April 2019

By 2050 the Middle East and Africa will be home to around 3.4 billion people - this is likely to be more than the populations of China and India combined (World Economic Forum, May 2018); Such an unprecedented boom will present challenges as well as...

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Spain looks to modular homes

10th April 2019

AEDAS Homes, the first major Spanish homebuilder to champion offsite construction, has successfully launched Merian in Torrejon de Ardoz, a municipality of 136,000 people 20 minutes from Madrid. Merian is the first large-scale modular development...

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Forget the Big Bang - it's the big offsite construction boom that deserves your attention

25th February 2019

Welcome to the final in a series of three articles focused on how integration - combining products, processes and vocational expertise - is helping designers and builders create higher quality structures more efficiently. In our third...

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"Aircon unit that fits in a wall”: Prefab start-up Katerra launches new products

20th February 2019

Katerra, the SoftBank-backed technology company aiming to "redefine construction" with prefabrication, launched new products in Las Vegas on Monday. An integrated power kit, self-tinting windows and an air-conditioning unit that...

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Robotic modular factory planned for Idaho as US prefab investment rises

14th February 2019

Amid a surge of investment in offsite manufacturing in the US, plans have been announced for a large, robotic, volumetric modular factory in Nampa, Idaho. Its promoter, the modular consultant Prefab Logic, said it would be...

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mac Skystone modular joint venture to target surging residential demand

13th February 2019

A new joint venture between Irish construction and fit-out firm mac-group and modular specialist Skystone is set to tap into surging demand in Ireland to quicken up residential delivery. The new joint venture offers solutions to mitigate...

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Skender hires Stacy Scopano as chief technology officer

12th February 2019

Skender, a vertically integrated design, construction and manufacturing firm based in Chicago, has hired Stacy Scopano as chief technology officer. Scopano will be charged with ensuring Skender is continually evolving its technological...

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Prefab start-up Katerra to get another $700m from SoftBank

16th January 2019

Silicon Valley prefab builder Katerra is set to receive a further $700m investment from Japan's SoftBank, putting the four-year-old company's value at more than $4bn, says a report. The deal, reported by tech news site The Information,...

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Can new home building tech help solve the affordability crisis?

12th December 2018

As construction costs soar in cities, more and more companies and governments are imagining a different model: building off-site and then trucking fully constructed apartments in from the suburbs. Inside a sprawling former submarine...

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High-tech prefab builder Katerra selected for apartment block in Hayward, California

5th December 2018

Getting another chance to prove its cutting edge approach after negative revelations in the summer, the Silicon Valley-based high-tech prefab builder Katerra has been selected to build a 97-unit apartment block in Hayward, California, a city in...

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Architects urge government to consider environmental cost of timber building restrictions

3rd December 2018

Engineered timber products such as cross-laminated timber must be exempt from the UK government's ban on combustible cladding materials, as they are essential in the global battle against climate change, say architects. Waugh Thistleton...

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Modularisation and prefabrication: Shaping the future of capital project investment in China

3rd December 2018

The Chinese Government is vigorously promoting prefabricated construction to improve efficiency, reduce pollution and lessen the labour intensiveness of the industry. By 2026, it wants 30 percent of new buildings to be...

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Lendlease's CLT 10-storey building opens in Brisbane

28th November 2018

Tallest timber-engineered commercial structure in Australia throws open its doors Lendlease is celebrating the opening of Australia's tallest timber-constructed commercial building, 25 King in Brisbane. The 10-storey 45m-tall...

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Designed by Bates Smart, Lendlease unveils the king of Australia’s timber towers

22nd November 2018

Australia's tallest engineered timber office building, Brisbane's 25 King has officially been unveiled. The office tower, which was designed by Bates Smart, includes extensive use of innovative and sustainable building materials - glue...

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21-story modular hotel opened in NYC said to be tallest in US

1st November 2018

Dive Brief: The CitizenM Bowery hotel, which opened in New York City in September, is the tallest modular hotel in the U.S., according to designer DeSimone Consulting Engineers. The 100,000-square-foot hotel, which was originally...

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Modular hotel stacks up in South Lake Union

30th October 2018

264 rooms were built in Europe and assembled in Seattle Modular buildings, which are constructed offsite in segments before being assembled onsite, are gaining popularity as an affordable and sustainable solution for private homes, but are...

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Support for Tall Timber Reaches New Heights in the Building Code

25th October 2018

Prescriptive requirements for wood structures up to 18 stories were among the additions preliminarily approved for the International Building Code following the work of the International Code Council's ad-hoc Tall Wood Buildings Committee. ...

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Balfour Beatty tapped to manage Atlanta prefab tower project

17th October 2018

Dive Brief: Balfour Beatty announced this week that it has been chosen to manage the construction of a 13-story, 325,000-square-foot Toll Bros. Apartment Living project called the Osprey in midtown Atlanta, and that it will use modular,...

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DeSimone Consulting Engineers designs the tallest modular hotel in the United States

12th October 2018

The hotel was originally designed as a cast-in-place concrete structure. The CitizenM Bowery, a 21-story, 100,000 sf hotel, is the tallest modular hotel in the United States. The DeSimone Consulting Engineers-designed building comprises...

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Modular housing could be stacked on existing buildings

5th October 2018

Los Angeles development, erected in just three weeks, could be a model for Dublin. Factory-build modular apartments, that can be stacked on top of existing city buildings, could provide a solution to Dublin's homelessness...

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Venture Capitalists are Stalking the Modular and Prefab Industries

26th September 2018

What happens when you are one of the biggest High-Tech companies in the world and your employees can't afford to live near your offices? It would be embarrassing if they had to live in a tent under a bridge or worse yet in one of those California...

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Amazon invests in a prefab module supplier

25th September 2018

Los Angeles-based Plant Prefab targets single- and multifamily construction. Plant Prefab operates a 62,000-sf modular production factory in Rialto, Calif. It plans to use its latest series of financing to invest in new senior hires,...

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"American first": Chinese steel modules make California

20th August 2018

A four-story apartment building has been erected in Berkeley, California in just four days using steel modules manufactured in China. Its developer claims it is the first such use of Chinese modules for building in the US, but said the approach...

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In a first, Hilton goes modular for San Francisco hotel project

20th August 2018

Dive Brief: Home2 Suites by Hilton, the chain's mid-tier, all-suite, extended-stay brand, announced that it would use modular construction to build a new property north of San Francisco International Airport. This will be the first modular...

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When hotels should consider modular bathrooms

23rd July 2018

As the cliché goes, “time is money.” Hotel developers know this well, especially when construction delays cause property openings to slip by months, increasing their loan carrying costs and delaying revenue generation from guests. To streamline...

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Manufacturing is Shifting the Future of Construction

2nd July 2018

The future of design and construction is about finding efficiencies and building a faster, cheaper and better quality product. Design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA) incorporates all those elements under one roof, stated several industry experts...

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Timber! Lendlease’s Commitment to Innovative Green Building Solutions

26th June 2018

First, there was Forte. Six years after the completion of its inaugural timber structure in Australia, Lendlease has committed to timber buildings in all of its new development...

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Leveraging BIM in the Prefabrication Space

18th June 2018

By improving project visibility and coordination between the trades, 3D models can reduce the risk of design errors and save offsite construction firms time and money. Until fairly recently, prefabrication and modular construction carried...

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Timber Modular Hotel Goes up on Berlin Shopping Centre Car Park

15th June 2018

In what’s being hailed as a world first and a feat of creative urban densification, a 151-room, modular timber hotel is now being craned onto the unused upper floor of a multi-storey car park at Berlin’s Ring-Center 2 shopping mall, on...

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Downtown’s New McDonald’s Shows off its Cross-Laminated Timber Design

15th June 2018

A far cry from the kitschy memorabilia of the Rock ’n’ Roll-themed building it replaces, the essentially all-new design of River North’s flagship McDonalds at 600 N. Clark Street is finally starting to come together. At its heart is an...

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Timber Buildings Taking Shape as Construction Sector Expands

9th June 2018

Lendlease is to construct a new timber office tower at Barangaroo South as demand for the environmentally-friendly properties gains traction. The building will be known as Daramu House, which means “tree house” in the aboriginal Sydney...

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PCL Wins Green Building Award for Humber River Hospital

8th June 2018

When Humber River Hospital (HRH) opened its doors near Keele and the 401 in 2015, the massive facility became North America’s first fully digital hospital. Designed by HDR Architects and built by PCL, the 14-storey, 1.8 million square foot...

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Prefab Housing Pioneer Katerra buys Michael Green Architecture

1st June 2018

Silicon Valley prefabricated home-building company Katerra has acquired Michael Green Architecture (MGA), the Vancouver-based firm that has emerged as one of the leading exponents of timber-based design. MGA said the deal signalled a “profound...

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Is Modular Construction the Future of Multifamily Housing? Advantages Include Time Savings and Greater Flexibility

31st May 2018

If you didn't know anything about its history, the building at 193 Henry Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side may seem like your average new luxury condo on the block. However, there is something quite unique about how it was built that just might...

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33 Modular Timber Apartments Placed on Roof of French Residential Block

31st May 2018

A renovation project in the town of Poissy, on the north-western outskirts of Paris, has succeeded in adding 33 new units to an existing building by fitting prefabricated modules to their roofs. The project, for client Vilogia, was designed by...

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First look inside Australia’s tallest timber tower

28th May 2018

Lendlease has released images of the inside of its engineered timber office building under construction at 25 King Street Brisbane, which is set to become Australia’s tallest engineered timber building when complete. The 45-metre,...

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Tallest timber and concrete tower in North America set to go up in Toronto

10th May 2018

The University of Toronto is teaming up with Vancouver-based practice Patkau Architects and Toronto's MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects (MJMA) to build a 14-story timber and concrete tower, the tallest in North America. ...

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Why Modular Construction Companies Will Become Increasingly Popular in 2018

27th April 2018

Why Modular Construction Companies Will Become Increasingly Popular in 2018 Both in the United States and abroad, modular construction companies are making the news. In the United States and Europe, many companies are struggling to build enough...

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Prefab industry seeks scheme to assure banks, homeowners

18th April 2018

Prefabricated building industry leaders have visited the Beehive to urge ministers to use their procurement muscle to set high quality benchmarks for the fledgling industry. Such standards would mean all "offsite" home...

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The Rise of the Wooden Skyscrapper

10th April 2018

Forget steel and concrete — wood is the latest go-to material for building skyscrapers. The renewable resource has high potential. "The world's tallest wooden house!" reads a huge poster on the side of a building under construction in...

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Modular building is (slowly) moving onto jobsites

4th April 2018

Call it what you want, offsite construction isn't going anywhere — except to more jobsites. The construction industry’s productivity woes are nothing new to the companies trying to solve the problem. While the agriculture and...

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Toronto gets a tall wood tower - and, maybe, an architectural masterpiece

29th March 2018

Dubbed 'The Arbour,' the building represents a move by George Brown College to make a mark with a building of international significance. The proposal by Shigeru Ban with the Toronto firm Brook McIlroy would be a showpiece of a...

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The world needs to build more than two billion new homes over the next 80 years

28th February 2018

By the end of this century, the world's population will have increased by half - that's another 3.6 billion people. According to the UN, the global population is set to reach over 11.2 billion by the...

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Bouygues to build six Singapore towers using offsite

26th February 2018

Dragages Singapore, subsidiary of France's Bouygues Construction, has won a €113m contract to build six residential towers in Singapore using offsite manufacturing. Sixty-five percent of the towers' reinforced concrete superstructures will be...

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How a modular 'Lego' construction project in San Marcos aims to disrupt student housing

4th February 2018

A rendering of Cheatham Flats apartment complex in San Marcos, which taps into the growing need for affordable student housing in the fast-growing...

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Built in Poland and shipped in pieces, NYC’s biggest modular hotel project is 55 percent complete

9th January 2018

The 20-story, 300-room project at 185 Bowery was constructed in Poland and shipped to New York in 210 pieces. Owned by Dutch hotel developer/operator Citizen M with Brack Capital Real Estate, the high-rise hotel at 185 Bowery is more than half...

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Shigeru Ban Unveils Interiors for "Worlds Tallest" Hybrid Timber Tower in Vancouver

11th December 2017

These new images offer a glimpse inside Japanese architect Shigeru Ban's Terrace House for Vancouver, set to become the tallest hybrid timber structure in the world once complete. Ban's residential tower is expected to reach 71 metres at...

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Martinsons to invest SEK 60 million ($7 million) in its Swedish facilities

8th December 2017

During next year, Martinsons will increase its production of sawn timber from 500,000 to 535,000 cubic metres, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network. This will be done through a SEK 60 million ($7 million)...

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Norwegian contractor building ‘world’s tallest timber building’

7th December 2017

Norwegian timber specialist Moelven has announced that it is building an 80m-tall mixed-use building in its home town of Brumunddal, about 100km north of Oslo. Moelven says its building, the Mjøstårnet, will be the tallest all-timber...

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Designed to be relocatable, this prefab wood building is so nice it's not going anywhere

5th December 2017

Architectus designed the Macquarie University Incubator to be built fast and disassembled quickly. Many researchers have found that the Biophilia Effect, a preference for natural materials, is significant for our well-being, leading to...

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Wood reaches new heights as a building material

28th November 2017

Timber-frame revival may gain even more momentum with new federal funding George Brown College has steadily grown since its establishment in 1967 and now operates out of more than a dozen buildings spread throughout Toronto's core. One...

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The sky’s the limit for sustainable wooden skyscrapers

23rd November 2017

Australia will soon hold the record for the world’s tallest timber office building at 5 King St Brisbane, and with the help of The University of Queensland’s new research hub, wooden skyscrapers could become the norm. ARC Future...

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World’s tallest wooden structure proposed for Central Park

28th September 2017

New York architect DFA has designed a 220m-tall observation tower that, if completed, would be the world's tallest wooden structure. The temporary tower, which is so far just a proposal, would be built in the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis...

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LifeArk provides modular housing for disaster victims either on water or land

8th September 2017

A product called LifeArk has been created for disaster victims which can be located either on land or water. The pre-fabricated, modular housing system is built by being snapped together and can be fully built by unskilled labourers with...

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Firms lauded for adopting new building methods

29th June 2017

15 to receive BCA awards for using advanced technologies to build in more efficient ways. Think children's building blocks and picture a high-rise development constructed block by block. Construction contractors Dragages Singapore and...

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FullStack raises $6M as modular builds momentum

28th June 2017

Prefab builder FullStack Modular has raised $6 million in Series A funding led by McCourt Global and real estate investors including Lawrence Benenson, Lloyd Goldman and Jonathan Grunzweig. The company plans to use the funds to...

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Oldcastle SurePods Working with Marriott Hotel Developers to Speed Hotel Construction via Modular Construction

6th June 2017

As a Marriott approved vendor, prefab bathroom supplier anticipates playing a key role in hotel organization’s 2017 modular construction push. Marriott International recently announced plans to use prefabricated guestrooms or bathrooms...

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Can timber buildings become mainstream?

23rd May 2017

Timber is not a common sight in the modern urban environment, which leans towards the sharp lines of glass, the strength of steel and the durability of concrete. But what started off as a few niche projects in a small number of cities...

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