Modular Construction Reports & Industry Analysis
The Modular Building Institute gathers and distributes statistical information about the size and growth of the modular building industry analysis. These reports have become the leading source of information on the industry and are used worldwide by investment firms, banks, the media, researchers, consultants, and students.
Contents include General Industry Descriptions, Floors Shipped, Gross Sales, Sales by Market Segment, Dealer Gross Revenue, Lease Fleet Composition, Sale of Used Units, Industry Manufacturing Data, Industry Estimates, and Visuals of Contemporary Modular Buildings. Written in a concise fact-filled manner, these reports are full of interesting and helpful information.
2026 Modular Construction Industry Reports
The Modular Building Institute's 2026 Modular Construction Industry Reports are now available! Get the latest and best available information and data showing modular industry trends, growth instigators, and best practices for permanent modular construction and relocatable buildings across North America.
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U.S. Permanent Modular Construction Industry Report
2026 UNITED STATES PERMANENT MODULAR CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY REPORT
This comprehensive analysis, developed in collaboration with FMI Consulting, focuses on the economic performance, trends, and forecasts for permanent modular construction in the United States. The report reflects updated methodologies, enhanced regional analysis, and robust data from both primary and secondary sources.
Executive Summary
Commercial modular construction continues to gain momentum as owners and developers look for faster, more predictable ways to deliver projects in a challenging market. While higher interest rates have slowed some new construction activity, the long-term outlook for modular remains strong because it directly addresses many of the industry’s biggest challenges: labor shortages, rising costs, compressed schedules, inconsistent project delivery, and the need for greater certainty.
This report examines where the U.S. permanent modular market stands today, where it is headed, and which sectors offer the greatest opportunities over the next five years. The U.S. market reached $20.5 billion in 2025, representing about 5.1% of construction activity in key segments, and is projected to grow at a 6.5% compound annual growth rate through 2030. The report also explores the economic and regulatory forces shaping adoption, regional market trends, and the advantages that continue to make modular an increasingly attractive delivery method.
Among the report's key findings:
- Multifamily residential remains the industry's largest market driven by housing affordability challenges, urban migration, and skilled labor shortages.
- Office and data centers represent a rapidly emerging opportunity for modular solutions that prioritize speed, quality, and predictable delivery
- The U.S. West leads in market size due to housing affordability and disaster recovery needs
Beyond market data, the report explains why developers, architects, and manufacturers are increasingly turning to modular construction. It highlights how factory production can reduce project timelines by 20-50%, improve quality control, create greater cost certainty, reduce onsite disruption, and help projects reach occupancy sooner. It also identifies the obstacles that still limit wider adoption—including financing, permitting, inconsistent project pipelines, and industry education—and outlines where the greatest opportunities for future growth exist across the United States.
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Relocatable Buildings Report
2026 RELOCATABLE BUILDINGS INDUSTRY IN NORTH AMERICA REPORT
The relocatable buildings industry in North America continues to play a crucial role in providing temporary and flexible space solutions for sectors like education, construction, healthcare, and disaster relief.
Executive Summary
The 2026 relocatable buildings report presents an industry that has moved well beyond “temporary space.” Across North America, relocatable buildings function as flexible infrastructure for education, construction, healthcare, workforce housing, disaster response, retail, industrial, and administrative uses.
The market is mature, stable, and increasingly strategic. Rather than expanding mainly by adding more units, the industry is creating value through stronger utilization, broader applications, recurring rental income, sales, and service-based offerings. The report also shows an industry with significant private fleet ownership, strong public-sector demand, and a business model that remains resilient.
Key findings include:
- The industry continues to show steady demand and healthy fleet utilization.
- Revenue remains strong and diversified, supported by rentals, new and used unit sales, transportation, installation, and other value-added services.
- Education and construction remain the anchor markets, while healthcare, disaster response, retail, workforce housing, and industrial applications are becoming more important growth areas.
- Relocatable buildings continue to perform well as long-term assets because they can be leased, reused, relocated, refurbished, and resold.
- The market is shifting from a traditional rental business toward a broader “space-as-a-service” model that helps customers solve immediate and evolving space needs.
The report also explains why demand should remain strong through 2030. Population growth, aging infrastructure, school capacity challenges, healthcare flexibility, workforce housing shortages, and climate-related disaster response all favor fast, reusable, code-compliant building solutions. These forces make relocatable buildings increasingly relevant for both short-term needs and long-term infrastructure planning.
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Canadian Modular Industry Report
2025 CANADIAN MODULAR CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY REPORT
In spring 2025, the Modular Building Institute and FMI Consulting began a collaborative effort to provide current, detailed, and actionable market insights. The outcome of that partnership, this 2026 report is intended to provide a means to measure and monitor changes across the industry, specifically describing five-year historical and five-year forecast data.
Executive Summary
The 2026 Canadian Permanent Modular Construction Industry Report shows a market with strong momentum, growing policy support, and clear long-term opportunity. Modular construction is increasingly being viewed as a practical solution to Canada’s most urgent building challenges, including housing affordability, labor shortages, aging infrastructure, climate resilience, and the need for faster project delivery.
The Canadian modular construction market now represents about 5.5% of the overall Canadian construction market and is projected to outpace traditional construction by a full percentage point. That gap matters because it signals that modular is not just growing with the market; it is gaining share.
Key findings include:
- Multifamily residential is the strongest segment, accounting for nearly half of Canada’s projected modular market. It also has the highest projected growth rate at 7.3%, driven by housing affordability pressures, urban migration, and population growth in major metro areas.
- Commercial and education remain important markets, supported by demand for flexible commercial space, institutional facilities, and faster delivery in communities facing capacity constraints.
- Lodging offers a smaller but attractive opportunity, especially for extended-stay projects and workforce-related demand in areas tied to manufacturing, industrial activity, and remote-site development.
- Healthcare and public infrastructure present long-term potential, particularly in rural and remote regions where traditional construction can be slowed by labor shortages, site logistics, and limited local capacity.
The report also highlights major tailwinds, including the Build Canada Homes initiative, broader provincial and institutional adoption, and efforts to harmonize codes and standards through CSA frameworks. At the same time, it is clear about the barriers: financing gaps, inconsistent project pipelines, design coordination issues, limited modular experience among some project teams, and lingering misconceptions about quality and appearance.
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Past Industry Reports
Looking for additional data? MBI's 2025, 2024, 2023, and 2022 reports are available below. For older modular construction reports, contact us.
United States Permanent Modular Construction Reports
Permanent Modular Construction (PMC) is an innovative, sustainable construction delivery method utilizing offsite, lean manufacturing techniques to prefabricate single or multi-story whole building solutions in deliverable module sections. PMC modules can be integrated into site built projects or stand alone as a turn-key solution and can be delivered with MEP, fixtures and interior finishes in less time—with less waste, and higher quality control compared to projects utilizing only site-built construction. Recent research on modular building construction analysis has come out supporting the fact that modular construction is an efficient construction process and poised to help the construction industry grow.
North American Relocatable Buildings Reports
A Relocatable Building (RB) is a partially or completely assembled building that complies with applicable codes or state regulations and is constructed in a building manufacturing facility using a modular construction process. Relocatable buildings are designed to be reused or repurposed multiple times and transported to different building sites. They are utilized for schools, construction site offices, medical clinics, sales centers, and in any application where a relocatable building can meet a temporary space need. These buildings offer fast delivery, ease of relocation, low-cost reconfiguration, accelerated depreciation schedules and enormous flexibility. Relocatable buildings are not permanently affixed to real estate but are installed in accordance with manufacturer’s installation guidelines and local code requirements. These buildings are essential in cases where speed, temporary space, and the ability to relocate are necessary.
Canadian Commercial Modular Construction Reports
Note: Canadian industry reports are not available for 2023 and 2022.
