Modular Buildings Aid FEMA in Disaster Relief Efforts
From the flooding of the Mississippi River to the tornadoes that have spawned throughout the country, the rash of weather-related natural disasters has placed enormous stress on local communities and stretched the resources of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. (more…)
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A Faster, Cheaper, Greener Approach to Healthcare Facilities
Public healthcare facilities throughout the state of Texas, and the Southwest United States as a whole, have a unique challenge on their hands. While the area continues to be the fastest growing region in the country, public funding is consistently being reduced. One solution that has served many healthcare providers well is the choice to work with Ramtech Modular Building Systems. Not only is Ramtech’s approach 25 – 50% faster than site-built construction, it is also significantly less expensive (more…)
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Lean Construction Driving the Move to Modular
We have written recently about how the general construction industry is pushing for, and has moved towards a greater degree of integration with prefabrication and modular construction. Further evidence of this is contained in a new report from the McGraw-Hill construction group titled Prefabrication and Modularization: Increasing Productivity in the Construction Industry. The theme of the report is focused on the “trend to and re-emergence of prefab and modular“ through the use of BIM and green building, but the report also goes into another area of particular interest to the modular building industry, Lean Construction. (more…)
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CII Study Raises the Anchor on Modular Building Construction
It seems modular construction and prefabricated systems are once again in the forefront of the minds of the general construction industry. Right on the heels of the recent comments made at the April meeting of the Construction Users Roundtable (CURT) calling for the use of more sophisticated methods of prefabrication and modular construction techniques on large-scale building projects, comes a report from the Construction Industry Institute. (more…)
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Modular Construction Takes Center Stage at CURT Conference
Exactly what does the construction industry at large think of modular construction today? Recent comments made at the spring meeting of the Construction Users Round Table (CURT) in Covington, Ky in April may hold a clue. As reported in an article in the Engineering News Record, the CURT has renewed a call for the use of more sophisticated methods of prefabrication and modular construction techniques. The CURT leadership wants to push designers and contractors to adopt these methods to cut the time and cost of construction as well as to complete projects with fewer workers and a higher degree of safety. (more…)
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