Things are beginning to stack up nicely at the 100,000-sq-ft assembly plant for the latest far-out adventure of developer Forest City Ratner Cos.—modular high-rise residential construction. On Nov. 1, the first 27 of 930 modules moved off the line for FCRC's 32-story B2 Bklyn tower at the nearby Atlantic Yards development.
Last month, there was another modular milestone: a successful trial stack. "We passed a water test for the seals between the modules," says Susan Jenkins, head of operations at the Brooklyn Navy Yard plant for the year-old modular-high-rise business, an equal joint venture between Forest City Ratner Cos. and Skanska USA Building Inc., called Forest City+Skanska Modular.