For companies ready to make a jump into off-site fabrication and Building Information Modeling (BIM), it may be helpful to understand what’s ahead in your journey: How many FTEs (full-time equivalents ...

A prefabricated bathroom is hoisted into place as part of Golden Construction’s three-building, 143-unit expansion of the Fair Haven Retirement Community, in Birmingham, Ala. Many of us have ...

Get ready for a surge in prefabrication activity by contractors. FMI, the consulting and investment banking firm, recently polled contractors about how much time they were spending, in craft labor ...

In response to an increase in prefabrication work performed by electrical contractors, OSHA recently added a new module to the agency's “Ergonomics Solutions for Electrical Contractors” e-Tool, ...

Predictable, flexible, and efficient, prefabrication is quickly becoming an integral part of many construction projects. Though not a one-size-fits-all solution, prefabrication can address a multitude ...

Prefabrication in construction is a very broad topic. As such, it covers many different areas. Regardless of how much prefab work you are doing, where you are doing it, or who is doing it, the one ...

Offsite manufacturer Veev is incorporating technology into every aspect of the process and trying to standardize a wall system so that it can be plug and play, resembling what other industries have ...

In the late 1960s, Texas general contractor H.B. Zachry Co. built a 500-room, 21-story Hilton hotel in downtown San Antonio for the city's HemisFair global exposition, and ended up creating a ...

The Los Angeles structural engineer Richard Bradshaw talks about his first experience with large-scale prefabricated construction in terms that are less than affectionate. “It never really made sense ...

Even though it’s one of the most referenced success metrics for new construction, it’s a rare thing for a project to be completed on time. Research has consistently shown that only a small fraction of ...

Prefabrication is becoming more popular in India for a variety of reasons. The gusts of evolution are currently blowing stronger than ever before in the building industry in India. In a huge and ...