Built Offsite

Standards Australia has released the first nationally developed glossary dedicated to prefabricated building terminology, providing a reference framework for terms increasingly used across modular construction, offsite manufacturing and Modern Methods of Construction (MMC). Published as SA HB 268:2026 Prefabricated Building — Glossary of Terms, the handbook was developed by the BD-111 Prefabricated Building... READ MORE

The federal government will allocate $39.3 million toward trialling a new open-source prefabricated housing system across Australia, with Housing Minister Clare O'Neil positioning the initiative as part of a broader attempt to improve housing productivity and accelerate residential construction delivery. Clare O’Neil, Federal Housing Minister. The funding, announced on May 28 by Housing... READ MORE

On May 24, the Western Australian Government awarded $49 million through its Housing Innovation Fund to 15 manufacturers involved in modular construction, prefabrication and factory based housing production. (credit image PIQUE.) The funding package forms part of the Cook Government’s broader housing strategy and comes amid mounting pressure on housing supply, labour availability... READ MORE

When: 11-13 June 2026Where: ICC SydneyEvent website: Futurebuild AustraliaCost: Free for trade professionals until June 11, and $50 onsite. Futurebuild Australia, to be held at ICC Sydney from 11–13 June, is positioning itself around a broader shift taking place across the construction sector, where conversations about housing delivery, sustainability, manufacturing capability, digital coordination... READ MORE

For more than a decade, Adam Strong has sat somewhere between advocate, critic and operator inside Australia’s industrialised construction sector. (main image: L–R: Simon Xiberras, Jamie Strong and Adam Strong at the rear of the original Strongbuild factory in Bella Vista, manufacturing roof cassettes for the Macquarie University Incubator.) Strongbuild, formerly based in... READ MORE

Partner content Queensland based STEELFAST is positioning itself as more than a conventional rollforming supplier, combining machinery, detailing, engineering and machine ready production workflows into a single manufacturing platform aimed at modular and light gauge steel builders. Operating from Coomera on the Gold Coast, the company has spent recent years developing proprietary rollforming... READ MORE