When two progressive thinkers collide, the result is invariably interesting and likely to gain significant attention for their prefabricated home. For the last two years, entrepreneur Oscar Martin, founder of Pedestrian TV has been collaborating with multi award-winning architect Peter Stutchbury to launch an affordable, prefabricated, carbon-neutral and concrete-free home with the aesthetics... READ MORE

Commitment by Elements Europe to modern methods of construction (MMC) were crucial in their successful bid to secure the £100m ($180m AUD) development (modular hotel and office). According to company sources, their advanced offsite manufacturing and construction techniques provided an alternative to traditional building methodology ensuring cost and programme certainty. The central London... READ MORE

At the recent World of Modular trade show in San Antonio, Texas, Rick Murdock, CEO of Autovol, continued, and furthered his company’s commitment to utilising robotics (robots) for the modular building business. According to an analysis by US organisation, Associated Builders and Contractors, labour shortages have been systemic throughout the construction industry, and... READ MORE

Exploring a use for non-recycled glass, researchers at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University assessed utilising it as a replacement for sand commonly used in 3D-printed concrete structures. Glass is made of silica, which is a major component of sand. (main pic: 3D-printed bench, made of concrete where ground glass was used in lieu of... READ MORE

Book early for this year’s prefabAUS 2022 conference in Brisbane. The event will be held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre located in the riverside South Bank Precinct. Top level speakers, in addition to industry-leading exhibitors, with extensive networking opportunities with your peers, and subtracted by the savings of an Early Bird... READ MORE

Grange Developments, a Melbourne-based property developer clearly isn’t shy about pushing the boundaries of their developments. With their mission statement, “We believe in creating landmark projects in a way that adds value to both the environment and humanity,” this development, called C6 (named after atomic number 6, Carbon, on the periodic table), if... READ MORE

It’s said some people will go to the opening of an envelope, however, if you happen to stumble into the Northern Hemisphere this September, be sure to book your seat for the UK-based 2022 Offsite Awards. Awards are always a happy place for winners and not-so happy place for the runner-up, but they... READ MORE

Positioning itself as a new, panelised, light gauge steel frame solution has been designed to help contractors and housebuilders deliver multi-storey, multi-occupancy residential and commercial projects. Intrastack’s system, according to company sources, can deliver a full, steel-frame building structure of up to 12 storeys high, claiming greater efficiency and reducing the need for... READ MORE

Commissioned by UK-based Stewart Milne Group for the Advanced Industrialised Methods for the Construction of Homes (AIMCH) research project, confirms that crane-lift panelised MMC building methods provide 20% less risk to health and safety than open-panel timber frame construction using a forklift. The £6.5m AIMCH research project, seeks to industrialise housing production by... READ MORE

Premier Modular, one of the UK’s leading offsite construction and modular building specialists, has been awarded Europe’s first ESG certification for its management and performance in environmental, social, and governance standards. To achieve accreditation, Premier Modular were subjected to a rigorous independent audit conducted by global testing, inspection and certification specialists SGS. And,... READ MORE