As with all technology, modular frame building systems (MFBS) continue to advance. In 2009, Swenson Say Faget completed the 10-story Ballard at the Park mixed-use project with Security Properties and ...

This steel system could change the way prefab buildings are built. Julian Bowron, designer of the Metaloq steel framing system, used a term I had not heard since 2015: "tolerance accumulation." It's ...

Wisconsin-based The Boldt Group, a general contractor and manufacturer with 18 offices nationwide, has launched a modular and prefabrication company called Bildt that makes and installs buildings, ...

Predicting Our Future is a podcast about the next revolutions in technology, as seen through the eyes of a serial entrepreneur. Below is an edited excerpt from "NYC Goes Modular," the fourth episode ...

The 64-year-old Chicago contractor Skender opened a 130,000 sq. ft. facility on Chicago’s southwest side to manufacture interlocking building modules on an assembly line. “Our production launch is an ...

Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC), working with Skanska as operating partner and construction manager, have broken ground on the residential component of the Atlantic Yards redevelopment project in ...

When I told my mother and grandmother in 2003 that I was selected to do the structural engineering on a new apartment building in Ballard, they were not too thrilled. The new building was slated to ...