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Katerra opens new factory, boosts leadership team

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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

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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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Zero Defects using advanced manufacturing technology

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We can all be seduced by the proposition of advanced building systems. For some the vision of factory-manufactured building solutions, where completed elements glide along robot-controlled production assembly lines and are...

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Prefab specialist Katerra buys two American contractors

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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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New rules to design by - Hosted by EOS

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EOS recently hosted one of our regular roundtable events - at the heart of the discussion was design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA), the growth of digital design and how these new tools are playing a huge part in the growth of offsite...

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Securing the future of offsite - Hosted by NHBC

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NHBC works collaboratively with the housebuilding industry to raise standards of new homes. They recently hosted a roundtable event discussing key issues surrounding funding and investment in the offsite sector.

As an important...

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Sustainability

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Offsite construction, in short, refers to the completion of elements for a project in a different location. The components for the building are then transported to the site and assembled into new homes, hospitals, student accommodation or any...

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Commercial buildings: The next frontier for modular and prefab?

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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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The 'Lego' trend in architecture

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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

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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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