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
Katerra, the SoftBank-backed technology company aiming to "redefine construction" with prefabrication, launched new products in Las Vegas on Monday.
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An integrated power kit, self-tinting windows and an air-conditioning unit that...
Skender hires Stacy Scopano as chief technology officer
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...
Prefab start-up Katerra to get another $700m from SoftBank
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,...
High-tech prefab builder Katerra selected for apartment block in Hayward, California
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...
Modularisation and prefabrication: Shaping the future of capital project investment in China
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...
21-story modular hotel opened in NYC said to be tallest in US
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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...Support for Tall Timber Reaches New Heights in the Building Code
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.
...Venture Capitalists are Stalking the Modular and Prefab Industries
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...
In a first, Hilton goes modular for San Francisco hotel project
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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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