Built Offsite

Modular by SHAPE has expanded into Western Australia, opening a 10,000-square-metre manufacturing facility in Hazelmere, Perth, following a contract award to manufacture 15 General Learning Area classrooms for the WA Government. (main image: Modular by SHAPE's experience in modular classroom construction will support its expansion into Western Australia.) The contract forms part of... READ MORE

Australia's expanding interest in modular construction is raising a question that extends beyond construction productivity. If more buildings are manufactured offsite, how much of that manufacturing should take place in Australia? (main image: Industry panellists discuss the opportunities and challenges associated with scaling modern methods of construction in Australia at Melbourne Connect.) This... READ MORE

Modular construction has long been promoted as a way to build housing faster and cheaper. Freecity, the Sydney developer assembling high-rise apartment buildings from modules manufactured in China, is demonstrating the first proposition. The second remains less certain. (main image: Freecity’s Herring Road project puts factory-built housing into practice.) In the first of... READ MORE

Australia’s prefabricated construction sector is testing a proposed building identification system designed to address one of modular housing’s persistent financing challenges: verifying the value and progress of homes while they are being manufactured offsite. National peak industry body prefabAUS is leading a pilot of the Building Identification Number (BIN), developed by digital building... READ MORE

Queensland modular manufacturer Saltair has won the FTA Pile Prefabricated and Modular Housing Project category at the 2026 Master Builders Queensland Housing & Construction Awards, with its Doonan Deluxe residence taking the state title ahead of regional winners from across Queensland. (main image: Saltair’s Doonan Deluxe residence, winner of the Prefabricated and Modular... READ MORE

Australia's transition towards industrialised construction is gathering momentum, but the question of who will manufacture the next generation of housing remains unresolved. (main image: Kersten Gentle, CEO, FTMA.) That tension ran through FTMA Australia's Future Framing Markets Forum, held at PARKROYAL Melbourne Airport on 20 October, where industry representatives examined the changing housing... READ MORE