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Offsite Construction

First Modular Standards Aim at Consistency in Design, Construction, Regulation

Nadine M. Post

January 27, 2022

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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.

Prefabricated Concourse at Dallas-Fort Worth Will Be a First for US Airports

Aileen Cho

April 21, 2021

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Preparatory work is underway for a summer installation of a new concourse at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport using prefabrication and modular methods—a first for U.S. airports, say officials.

Walker, Swinerton Partner on Predesigned, Preengineered Parking Garages

Jeff Rubenstone

February 24, 2021

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Parking structures can often be an afterthought in larger projects, but the hidden costs of delays and design changes can upend an otherwise simple structure.

Modular ICU Units Placed Into Service in Maryland

A Second ICU Site is Being Completed

Bruce Buckley

May 26, 2020

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A new 7,000-sq-ft, 16-unit critical care facility was built from modular units designed by HGA and preassembled by The Boldt Co. at its Appleton, Wis., facility.

COVID-19 and Construction

Building Trades With Prefab Capabilities Step Up to Deliver COVID-19 Alternate Care Facilities

As COVID-19 patients are treated in convention centers and arenas, construction can learn from the response

Jeff Yoders

April 29, 2020

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has delivered 50 COVID-19 alternate care facilities in hotels, dormitories, convention centers and arenas with 12 more soon to be completed.

Companies Offer Alternative Solutions for COVID-19 Beds

Bruce Buckley

March 20, 2020

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AEC firms, health care providers and agencies work to speed hospital beds, including fast-track fit-outs of existing spaces, temporary tents, mobile combat hospitals and modular solutions.

Modular Construction, Prefabrication and BIM

Technology

SmartMarket Report Highlights How BIM Planning Enables Prefabrication and Modular Construction

Contractors say designers not adequately enabling prefabrication and modular

Jeff Yoders

February 13, 2020

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New SmartMarket Report on prefabrication and modular construction updates 2011 Dodge research that focused only on prefabrication.

Streamlining Projects With a Modular Approach

By Ron Beck

March 30, 2016

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Process-industry engineering and construction firms can save significant amounts of time and money, optimize process designs, gain access to thousands of analyses of global production and property databases and achieve significant competitive advantage through the use of model-based software applications for modular process design

Webinar

2/10/21 to 2/28/22

Online

Contact: Lauren Whitaker

PANEL DISCUSSION: Mastering Prefab and Modular

ON DEMAND

ENR BuildTech Pre-Event Webinar Series

Prefab and modular construction’s potential to improve quality, safety, speed and workforce efficiency is enticing, but full of surprises. We'll hear from those who have learned from experience about the need for the entire team to collaborate from the earliest stage to think through the complexities of creating assemblies offsite and integrating them into the job.

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