BRATTLEBORO — With the state investing tens of millions of dollars in housing for working folks and their families, Vermont is bracing for a sort of housing boom. “The Vermont Housing Finance ...

Kitchen renovations are expensive and time-consuming—unless you go the modular route, which is cheaper, faster, and can look just as nice. Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about ...

Urban, market-rate housing that lower-income workers can actually afford is one of our country’s biggest needs. For multifamily designers, this challenge presents several opportunities for creating ...

Prefabricated modular design and construction have made notable inroads into such sectors as industrial, residential, hospitality and, more recently, office and healthcare. But Dafna Kaplan thinks ...

Modular building could reduce construction costs, making building new homes more affordable. Modular building, a method for rapidly constructing housing stock, offers a solution to alleviate the ...

Modular construction, also known as prefabrication, is rapidly emerging as a transformative trend in the construction industry. This innovative approach involves assembling building components ...

With a surge in global population projected to double the number of buildings over the next 30 years, modular construction emerges as a sustainable solution to claim a significant share of the $373 ...

NAMPA — As Rick Murdock walked through Autovol Volumetric Modular’s 400,000-square-foot Nampa factory, he pointed out what separates the company from others. Autovol’s CEO and co-founder described how ...

Heating and cooling buildings is a major consumer of energy, especially older ones that weren’t built with modern energy efficiencies in mind. Now, engineers at Fraunhofer Institute have developed a ...

Modular construction toys like LEGO and Meccano are great for prototyping, but they aren’t so great for large builds. OpenStructures promises to be a modular building system for projects large and ...

Construction prices have spiked about 33 percent in Vermont since last year, driving up the price of new homes and remodeling projects — and squelching the development of middle-income housing. It now ...