Casey Alexander
The biggest thing to hit modular construction
This week, Forest City Ratner broke ground on the next phase of the Atlantic Yards, a 32-story residential tower known as B2, which will be the world's tallest modular...
The lawsuit over the city of New York's approval of Forest City Ratner's modular building plan--which involves offsite prefabrication without licensed plumbing and fire suppression work--goes to a hearing today less than a week after the developer started delivering modules (aka "mods") to the building site.
The world's tallest modular tower is currently rising in Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards megaproject, and Forbes recently took a trip behind the scenes to see how the prefab building comes together.
As the Atlantic Yards megaproject comes under increased scrutiny for failing to deliver a single unit of housing one decade in, there's more bad news for developer Forest City Ratner: the completion date for the first residential tower, B2, has been moved to late 2015, instead of this year, according to a State of the Megaproject article in the Times .
A slideshow of construction photos of the Atlantic Yards. Related to the post World's tallest modular building may be the last of its kind f
New York City-limits is experiencing an aberrant construction boom. Spending on construction added by 73 percent to $11.9 billion in 2013, and again acicular by 26 percent endure year to $36 billion. A lot of of the spending is on affluence residences in Manhattan, with a big block of the blow adherent to Brooklyn, just beyond the East River.
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