Off-Site Construction This Modular Construction Company Plans to Succeed Where Others Fail A newly launched Berkshire Hathaway-backed modular construction company says it’s taking a new approach to factory-based construction, and...
Off-Site Construction How the Pandemic Will Shape the Future of Off-Site Residential Construction Productivity in home construction lags behind almost every other industry, while inefficiencies and waste hurt profits and growth. Is off-site construction the answer to building homes faster and more affordably and easing current supply a
Building Technology This Uber-Like Platform for Home Building Cuts Construction Time in Half After the 2017 Northern California wildfires, the demand for new construction exceeded all local construction capabilities, leading one...
New-Home Sales Utah Builder Forgoes Bidding Wars, Plans to Sell at Listing Price When Utah-based Goldcrest Homes opened its England Ridge subdivision, the builder didn’t see a need for bidding wars. Instead, it opted to...
Planning + Development Farm Storage Metamorphosizes Into the ‘Caterpillar’ Housing Development During World War II, the U.S. Navy developed a prefab housing structure deemed the Quonset hut. Today, those huts are used for storage on...
Innovation The Downside of 3D Home Printing New communities developed through 3D printing have been making headlines, from a 15 net-zero home community in Rancho Mirage, Calif. to the...
Innovation This Company Says It Can Produce 1,000 Homes From One Factory California-based modular building company S2A Modular wants to build hundreds of net-positive energy homes and plans to do it faster than...
Building Technology Katerra Wants to Disrupt the Construction Industry [VIDEO] Janet Stephenson, Katerra's head of building platform sales talks about what Katerra is and where it's going
Energy Efficiency Solar Energy Solutions Continue to Gain Momentum From community installations to a push in some municipalities for all-electric building codes, interest in solar keeps growing
Innovation 3D-Printed Houses are Popping Up in America—the Moon Might Be Next Icon, a Texas-based 3D home printing company, created the country’s first fully permitted, fully 3D-printed home. Now, Icon is in talks with...
