Viviendas multifamiliares
Mind the Gap: The Interface Between Onsite and Offsite Construction
Every design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) project — modular, mass timber, or panelized — is really two projects joined at a seam. One is built in a controlled factory to millimeter tolerances; the other in the field, in weather, to the looser tolerances of poured concrete and human hands. Between them sits an interface: where the factory’s precision meets the site’s reality.
Seguir leyendoPrecision and Possibility: Demands of DfMA and What Modular Mass Timber Makes Possible
Mass timber does not automatically create an efficient modular building. Its precision makes early coordination more important: fabricated components will accurately reproduce both the team’s solutions and its mistakes. The material’s advantages are realized only when supported by an equally precise design and delivery process.
Seguir leyendoModular by Design: Turning Architecture into a Manufacturing System
Modular construction is often presented as a faster way to build. Speed, however, is only one part of its value. The larger opportunity is to create a coordinated design and production system that improves quality, reduces uncertainty, and allows a building to move efficiently from concept design through manufacturing, transportation, installation, and completion.
Seguir leyendoRepeatability Begins with Trust: What Alora at Dry Creek Reveals About Scaling Modular Housing
Alora at Dry Creek, a 329-unit, multifamily community comprising five four-story buildings in Centennial, Colorado, demonstrates how repeatable design, standardized manufacturing and early collaboration can work together to create a model that is not only faster to deliver, but easier to replicate across future projects.
Seguir leyendoAffordable Housing, One Module at a Time
For builders and developers, modular factories offer significant scheduling and cost efficiencies compared with traditional site-built construction, regardless of whether the final product is workforce housing, single family homes, or apartment buildings.
Seguir leyendoAdvancing Modular Housing Policy in California: An Interview With Tyler Pullen of Terner Labs/UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation
Artificial intelligence is no longer a future concept in modular construction—it is already reshaping how complex buildings are evaluated, designed, and delivered.
Seguir leyendoEl nuevo edificio modular de apartamentos en Abu Dhabi apunta hacia el futuro de la construcción multifamiliar.
Eagle Hills International Properties chose the BROAD Holon Building for a 16-story market rate apartment building in Zayed City, a central business district of Abu Dhabi. The project highlights the potential of the Holon system of volumetric modular construction to accelerate housing delivery.
Seguir leyendoAoRa Development aspira a construir el primer edificio triple net zero de Nueva York utilizando métodos modulares.
Cada vez más ciudades están financiando nuevos proyectos de infraestructura, siempre y cuando cumplan con los requisitos de sostenibilidad. Así es como los módulos pueden encajar en este panorama, gracias a su menor producción de residuos.
Seguir leyendoUTILE: Acelerando la construcción modular
En Quebec, UTILE está liderando la creación de edificios modulares asequibles para ayudar a reducir la escasez de viviendas para estudiantes. Durante el proceso, la empresa descubrió lo que se necesita para que la transición a la construcción modular sea un éxito.
Seguir leyendoAlojamiento para empleados de Pomeroy
El complejo residencial para empleados Pomeroy Lodging, situado en Kananaskis, Alberta, es una estructura de tres plantas con una superficie de 2240 m² que cuenta con 57 estudios y una zona común en la planta principal. Está diseñado para empleados a tiempo completo y compuesto por 36 módulos prefabricados.
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