Modular Advantage Magazine
Guerdon Modular Buildings – Retirement Facility
The project includes 40 assisted living rooms, 20 memory care rooms, public restrooms, staff areas, laundry facilities, community kitchens, libraries, dining areas, and a detached administrative building.
Read MoreRamtech Building Systems – Permanent School Campus
This project provides space for 24 standard classrooms to accommodate up to 528 additional students.
Read MoreThe Jarrett Street Condo Project
The Jarrett Street Condo project from Blazer Industries is a three-story, 12 unit condominium building located in Portland, Oregon.
Read MoreCity’s First-Ever Temporary Modular Housing
In response to an immediate need to address the City of Vancouver’s housing affordability challenges as quickly as possible, Horizon North was selected by the Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency (VAHA) to complete the city’s first-ever temporary modular housing development.
Read MoreRepurposed for a Second Life: Renovated Reuse Case Study
The newly renovated daycare space is comprised of two classrooms, men’s and women’s restrooms, an office space, and kitchen.
Read MoreRelocatable Transitional Housing Project Wins MBI’s Best of Show for Horizon North Logistics
The reusable, reconfigurable design and multi-point foundation system allows for the entire building – from ramps to recycling containers and paving stones – to be demobilized and reassembled at another site in the future at a fraction of the time and cost of constructing a new building.
Read MoreFrom Ship to Shop: Repurposed for Retail
The utilization of “forgotten corners” in dense, urban locations to create intimate human-scale amenities that provide life and security to the streets has become a model for many other projects currently in the works.
Read MoreAffordable Housing- A Global Issue
Cities around the globe are facing affordable housing shortages – what are the key differences in how they are addressing them?
Read MoreThe Modular Solution to the Construction Labor Shortage
The Modular Solution to the Construction Labor Shortage It is not too difficult to find articles citing the construction industry’s woes over the shortage of available skilled workers. All sorts of initiatives, efforts, and conferences have been held on the topic for the last decade or so in an effort to reach more young people…
Read MoreReinventing Construction: A Route to Higher Productivity
A five-to-tenfold increase in productivity would be possible if construction were to move to a manufacturing-like system of mass production with a much greater degree of standardization and modularization and the bulk of construction work taking place in factories off site.
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