Haskell’s 2019 investment in Bessemer, Ala.-based BLOX may pay off for the contractor as it eyes growth over the next five years. And if Chris Giattina, BLOX’s president, can achieve his lofty ambitions to change construction practices, the construction industry as a whole could have a more complete modular method at its disposal.
Giattina calls the BLOX method of construction Design-Manufacture-Construct and sees it as a potential disrupter to more traditional construction models. Haskell, for its jobs, tweaks the nomenclature, referring to the method as Design-Manufacture-Assemble, due to the relative ease with which BLOX modules can be put together, says J.P. Saenz, Haskell COO.