If you are looking for a good quality, super-insulated and super-strong house, a modular home using structural insulated panels, or SIPs, may be the right choice. SIP homes offer two very important ...

Unlike traditional building methodologies, modular design offers a degree of flexibility, efficiency, and scalability that is rarely paralleled. The true measure of a modular residence's worth lies in ...

Urban, market-rate housing that lower-income workers can actually afford is one of our country’s biggest needs. For multifamily designers, this challenge presents several opportunities for creating ...

A modular home being assembled on a building site. A modular house can be finished in about half the time of a home built onsite from scratch. (Shutterstock) Location may be the most important word in ...

Fast to build, eco-friendly and affordable: modular and pre-fabricated homes have been touted as a possible solution to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writes on housing innovation for sustainability and affordability. Inside Model/Z’s facility, local labor works to build ...

Across the real estate sector, modular construction is emerging as a key strategy for reducing costs, accelerating timelines, and improving returns. What was once a fringe alternative has evolved into ...

Modular building, if brought to scale, has the potential to reduce construction costs and make building new homes more affordable, especially in areas experiencing severe affordable housing shortages.

After Jerry Camarillo’s childhood home in Altadena, Calif., burned down, he was determined to rebuild the one-story, midcentury ranch house exactly as it was before the Los Angeles wildfires. That all ...

Developers and New York City are building modular homes in factories and propping them up on vacant lots in the outer ...