Offsite manufacturing or modular construction is increasingly being seen as an opportunity to drive change across the construction industry.

Salt Lake City adopted the nation’s first two consensus standards that address offsite construction last March, six months in advance of their publication by the International Code Council and the Modular Building Institute. Though ICC and MBI expect other jurisdictions to follow suit, to date there have been no other takers. 

Contractors must consider an array of issues in designing and outfitting prefabrication sites that are both cost effective and efficient