Developers, general contractors and subcontractors swap stories that sound too good to be true about prefabricated construction: a student housing project that cut its delivery time by a third or a ...

As the world’s largest designer, manufacturer and distributor of costumes, Rubie’s Costume Co. takes center stage around Halloween. But through the rest of the year, the Westbury-based family-run ...

Throughout the first half of the 20th century, Sears offered customers the option of ordering entire pre-designed, prefabricated houses from their famed catalog. Appealing for their novelty and ...

Design magazines love them. So do movie stars and environmental activists. New technology, including the use of robots in factories, makes them even easier to build. So why are advocates of prefab ...

Workers construct panels in a factory, allowing for shorter construction schedules. Pre-fabricated panels, constructed in the factory rather than on site, are in demand. That’s because ‘they take time ...

The Silver Lake structure is SuperLA’s first example of a repeatable model the company says can build homes faster and cheaper than industry standard. Welcome to Prefab Profiles, an ongoing series of ...

Prefab buildings are energy-efficient and high on sustainability. The increasing awareness of construction wastage on the environment has driven people worldwide to adopt the green buildings concept, ...

With Klik, Australian companies Elenberg Fraser and Unitised Building have come up with a prefabricated modular building system they claim is equally suited to knocking up a quick skyscraper as it is ...

The Elytra Filament Pavilion is made from a glass and carbon fiber filament that mimics the shell of beetle wings, and no two elements are the same. This week, the Victoria & Albert museum in London ...

Guys in hard hats on construction sites may be a thing of the past. In a bid to revolutionize the residential construction industry, developer Forest City Ratner announced Wednesday it would build the ...

One of the most interesting places to go to discuss home construction is the wonderful and remote school – Yestermorrow. Established in 1980 in Waitsfield, Vermont; the school is a training ground for ...

(TNS) - A state social services agency is working to produce what could be the first temporary housing community developed for Maui fire survivors, a 450-unit project where initial occupancy is ...