Cross-laminated timber is a wonderful way of using up all those billions of board-feet of pine-beetle kill lumber that's rotting away. Cut it, glue it and press it, and you have giant panels that ...

Diagram of Dougong from "A Pictorial History of ... Dougong was also selected for its feature of simple prefabrication and fast on-site ... Modular Construction in Chinese Timber Architecture" 24 ...

Continuing Education For generations, prefabricated housing has had a bad rap. Visions of ticky-tacky buildings in identical rows with no connection to context pushed modular construction to the ...

The concept of modular construction may seem foreign to some, but it is gaining traction as a safe and efficient means of building. In fact, COVID accelerated the pace of prefabrication and modular ...

“Dodge’s research clearly shows that prefabrication and modular construction are providing significant improvements and efficiencies, and charting a new course in our industry,” says Jon Dommisse, ...

This was achieved by combining modular and skeleton construction. In modular construction, completely prefabricated 3D timber modules are used, which are stacked next to and on top of each other.

However, a sizable percentage also expect low-rise offices, K-12 schools, public buildings and commercial warehouse to experience a high frequency of use of prefabrication or modular construction ...

This special section explores the latest in prefabrication. It highlights technological advances in residential modular construction, both flat-pack and volumetric. It examines structural innovations, ...

At the same time, the Modular Laboratory has been set up to explore applications, answer questions and experiment further around the idea on the manufacturing front of prefabrication. The idea is to ...

Taking place during the 8th Advancing Prefabrication Summit, the Advancing Prefabrication Awards will unite pioneers of industrialized construction on Feb. 27, 2024, to celebrate the industry’s ...