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Dec 31, 2024 | 
offsitebuilder.com | Ken Semler
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
offsitebuilder.com | Dennis Michaud |Ken Semler |Gary Fleisher |Susan Bady
Architecture students begin their career with formal classroom training, and then must meet on-the-job experience requirements (typically via internships) before earning an architect’s license. In the world of commercial construction, there are many universities with formal bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in various aspects of Construction Management.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
offsitebuilder.com | Erik Cofield |Andrew Holmes |Gary Fleisher |Ken Semler
These tech companies offer benefits to all players in the offsite industry.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology allows builders, developers, factories and investors to rapidly, and dramatically change how they run operations. There are a growing number of construction-specific, AI-enabled and AI-enhanced software tools, software systems and data manipulation companies, but a lot of Offsite Builder readers will not have heard of them.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
offsitebuilder.com | Ken Semler |Andrew Holmes |Gary Fleisher |Zena Ryder
North American homes fall on a spectrum from custom single-family, to large multifamily projects, and most modular manufacturers work at either end. Some specialize in 150-box apartment buildings, while others focus solely on custom homes.
Meanwhile, all modular manufacturers are being approached by an increasing number of single-family developers. The ability to serve these developers is what will allow the modular industry to grow its market share above the current 3% of new homes.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
offsitebuilder.com | Andrew Holmes |Gary Fleisher |Ken Semler |Zena Ryder
Blockhouse Residential worked to create a home that buyers of moderate means can not only afford, but that also includes the amenities they want. Good design and modular construction made it possible.
This modular builder saw a market among buyers who have been priced out of the standard suburban home, and wanted to offer something they could finance without subsidies.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
offsitebuilder.com | Gary Fleisher |Andrew Holmes |Ken Semler |Zena Ryder
Politicians, government agencies, developers, builders and non-profits are all engaged in a seemingly endless search for a “magic bullet” that will ramp up housing production and finally address the ever-widening gap between housing needs and housing availability.
Modular construction has been heralded as a panacea — the ideal answer to the nation’s housing woes. But if modular holds such promise, why hasn’t it delivered? The answer is that it can’t solve the problem in a vacuum.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
offsitebuilder.com | Ken Semler |Zena Ryder |Larry Bernstein |Joe Dyton
The affordability of housing is at the top of everyone’s mind — more so now than ever. Since COVID, the costs of building a home have skyrocketed, and those costs get passed on to homebuyers. As a result, home prices have risen drastically.
A February 2024 analysis from Zillow shows that in 2020 the annual salary needed to afford an average-priced home was $59,000.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
offsitebuilder.com | Gary Fleisher |Ken Semler |Zena Ryder |Larry Bernstein
Energy efficiency, once a standout feature of new homes, is now a baseline expectation. Many homebuyers are looking past energy savings to Net Zero energy use.
But what is the difference between the well-established ENERGY STAR program and the burgeoning concept of Net Zero?
For decades, ENERGY STAR has been the gold standard.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
offsitebuilder.com | Ryan Colker |Gary Fleisher |Ken Semler |Zena Ryder
Industry involvement will help to ensure that we create regulatory facilitators, not barriers.
About 12 years ago, a group of offsite luminaries, representing multiple perspectives from manufacturers, contractors, academia, designers and developers, came together to establish a forum for all those wishing to advance the use of offsite construction. Thus, was born the National Institute of Building Science’s (NIBS) Off-Site Construction Council (OSCC).
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
offsitebuilder.com | Ken Semler |Gary Fleisher |Zena Ryder |Reed Dillon
Various surveys of former smokers find that the average smoker tries to quit six times before succeeding, and that it can take 30 or more tries before quitting for a year. It’s easy to slip up and have a cigarette or two, and smokers shouldn’t view these multiple quit attempts as failures or major setbacks. They’re just part of the process of eliminating an old habit and building a new one.
Habits are powerful forces.
