Built Offsite

A 38-apartment social housing development in Perth’s coastal suburb of North Coogee has been completed eight months earlier than a conventional construction programme, demonstrating how prefabricated masonry and modular bathroom systems can accelerate multi-residential housing delivery. (Credit all images John Carey MLA) Delivered by Western Australian businesses PARC Developments and Tyrone Group, the... READ MORE

Australia's transition to industrialised construction may depend less on developing new workforce skills than on whether governments are prepared to use their purchasing power to establish a viable market for it. (main image: Visitors tour Green Timber Technology’s advanced manufacturing facility in Orange, NSW, during an open day. Credit image: Carlos Garcia, Homag... READ MORE

Partner content Australian builders considering offsite manufacturing should first establish how their products, information and materials will move through production before committing to advanced automation, according to Randek’s Ola Skoglund and Jason Reints. (main image: Randek’s ZeroLabor robotic sub-assembly system automates the manufacture of timber wall components, including door and window openings and... READ MORE

What if Australian residential builders could access a multimillion-dollar robotic manufacturing facility without having to own or operate it? (main image: A RedTag home from D.R. Horton, the US homebuilder that has entered a multi-year agreement with Promise Robotics to access automated manufacturing capacity.) It's a proposition familiar to other capital-intensive industries. Businesses... READ MORE

The recovery and reuse of structural building components is attracting increasing research attention, but turning salvaged materials into reliable inputs for industrialised construction presents considerable manufacturing and engineering challenges. A new European initiative, NuBau Labs, is examining whether these challenges can be addressed through a coordinated system of material recovery, testing, certification and... READ MORE

Singapore has decided that digital coordination in construction is no longer something best left to individual companies. It is becoming a regulatory requirement. From 1 October 2026, new developments of 5,000 square metres or more must use CORENET X, a digital building approval platform requiring coordinated three-dimensional Building Information Modelling (BIM) submissions. It... READ MORE