Built Offsite

The Netherlands is moving to accelerate housing delivery through a stronger emphasis on offsite construction, with Housing Minister Elanor Boekholt-O’Sullivan outlining a programme that combines regulatory reform, funding, and industrialisation. (main image: MOOS, a modular affordable housing development in Amsterdam.) Elanor Boekholt-O’Sullivan, Dutch Minister for Housing and Spatial Planning. In a letter to... READ MORE

Hyundai Elevator has completed the first commercial installation of its modular elevator system, InnoBlock, on a 27-storey residential building at Hillstate Centre Park in Songdo, Incheon. The project marks the first verified application of a modular elevator in a residential tower above 20 storeys, extending a method previously limited to low-rise buildings. InnoBlock... READ MORE

Sovereign Energy Australia (SEA) has outlined a delivery model in the Pilbara that places modular housing alongside energy and infrastructure from the outset, rather than as a secondary trade. Launched in Karratha on April 17, the Indigenous-led platform brings together battery storage, hybrid microgrids and rapid-deployment infrastructure with modular accommodation designed for remote... READ MORE

Drawing on more than 50 years in construction, David Chandler AM, former NSW Building Commissioner, sets out why MMC is struggling to gain traction, despite sustained industry advocacy and policy support. David Chandler AM Construction continues on an upward cost trajectory despite MMC. More projects are becoming unfeasible. Market and social housing providers... READ MORE

A new entrant to Australia’s emerging construction technology sector, xbuild is positioning itself within the offsite conversation by focusing on on-site additive construction, targeting early deployment across residential and community housing. (main image: Render of a single-storey residential dwelling representing the typology xbuild is targeting, where 3D printed wall systems are integrated into... READ MORE

Australia’s modular housing sector is beginning to shift, but the change is not coming from construction. (main image: An 8-metre Elsewhere Pods modular studio installed in Bicheno, Tasmania.) It is coming from retail. Bunnings’ decision to sell Elsewhere Pods through a fixed-price, online model places a prefabricated building inside a mainstream consumer purchasing... READ MORE