Built Offsite

LJ Hooker chairman Janusz Hooker has launched OHOME, a modular housing venture combining offshore manufacturing, site assessment and financing to deliver secondary dwellings on existing residential land. The company advertises delivery around 150 days from order, including approximately two weeks of site work. Its initial rollout targets backyard housing, with a further phase... READ MORE

Several years ago, Built Offsite asked Vaughan Buckley, founder and chief executive of US modular manufacturer Volumetric Building Companies, how he explained the commercial case for offsite construction to clients. His first answer was straightforward: “it saves them time”. (main image: Render of Modscape + Modbotics’ new Yatala facility in Queensland, which will... READ MORE

Delivered through its Office for Regional Housing, the trial brings together Destination Built, Fleetwood and Urbanlux. Each supplier was selected through a competitive tender to provide one two-bedroom and one three-bedroom transportable home. (main image: modular homes on display in Adelaide’s north as part of Renewal SA’s $3.35 million trial exploring key worker... READ MORE

partner content Schäfer was in Melbourne recently for the prefabAUS Offsite 2026 Conference, where he spoke with Built Offsite alongside ARDEX Australia’s Alan Gower about factory productivity, material development, automation and the pace of Australia’s prefab expansion. (main image: ARDEX’s Tobias Schäfer (left) and Alan Gower discuss materials and manufacturing processes for offsite... READ MORE

A bathroom pod develops a leaking pipe. The cause might lie with its designer, manufacturer, component supplier or installer. For the building owner seeking a repair, however, the first call will generally be to the builder. (main image: Kreisson Principal Lawyer David Glinatsis speaking at prefabAUS Offsite26 in Melbourne about liability, defects and... READ MORE

Artificial intelligence could help offsite manufacturers coordinate design, production and installation more effectively, according to a joint white paper from US contractor Suffolk, the MIT Center for Real Estate and MIT Media Lab City Science group. Construction in the Age of AI identifies offsite manufacturing as one of six areas where AI could... READ MORE