Casey Alexander
With interesting and exciting things happening in the modular construction industry, it's fun to see what's new every week.
Inventor of new modular precast system says it can save 15% in costs
30 October 2012
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Calgary, AB, Canada: AVEVA announced today that it will be
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Information about the the benefits, discount programs, and how to become a member of the Modular Building Institute.
Oakland is moving its Piedmont Avenue branch library into modular buildings on an...
LUCKNOW: The Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) has inched closer to bringing to life the dream project of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, the Jai Prakash Narain International Centre,...
There were important housing lessons to be learned from Hurricane Sandy, which ravaged a good part of the East Coast last week.Thousands of houses were
This modular ticketing building for Greyhound Lines, consists of six steel and concrete modular units and one 18-foot tall sign section. All modules were tra...
It’s been a long time coming for students faced with perennial parking problems at the landlocked University of Windsor campus sandwiched between the Ambassador Bridge and the Windsor’s west side business district.
The six winners for the Third Annual SEED Awards for Excellence in Public Interest Design—which recognizes design projects with social, economic and environmental impacts that “create truly sustainable projects and positive change in the world” —have been announced.
One of the six winners is the SAGE Affordable Green Modular Classrooms from Gervais, Oregon which addressed a variety of issues including: civic engagement, long-term health & low cost maintenance, strengthening community, wellness, and environmental sustainability. The winning idea was the following:
Early last May, a truck arrived at a leafy construction site in, Airmont, NY bearing an entire classroom wrapped in Tyvek. Just seven weeks later, and after many more trucks rolled in carrying similar loads, a two story, 24,000 square foot school building had completely risen from its concrete foundation.
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The ‘My Micro NY’ project will create 55 new micro-units at 335 East 27th Street in Manhattan, 40 percent of which will be affordable beyond the competitive market rents.
The 55 new units are to be built at East 27th Street in Manhattan - with 40 per cent of the homes available to low and middle-income New Yorkers.
Halley VI Antarctic research station by Hugh Broughton Architects comprises eight modules on extendible hydraulic legs.
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Official Site. AbleNook is a rapidly deployable portable structure comprised of interlocking components which can be assembled by unskilled laborers in a short period of time (without tools). These components are shipped flat-packed in order to maximize the number of families who are helped in disaster areas, while reducing transportation costs. Internationally Patent Pending
Advanced framing, panelization, and modular manufacturing could gain ground.
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Engineering firm ARUP envisions a building in the year 2050 that includes flexible modular pods, urban agriculture, climate-conscious facades and intelligen...
Cold, wind-driven rain: It was a typical February workday in the Philadelphia region, a tough day to stand outside, with tools, and on ladders. In the gray morning, union carpenter Rob Whartnaby, of...
You normally think of IKEA as providing cheap furniture in a box. But in a new venture, an IKEA subsidiary will be providing a cheap hotel room in a box.
