Construction on both home types begins in factories, but they’re built to different codes. So you want to build a new home — but you’ve got sticker shock. In researching cost-effective options, you ...

Modular homes are partially constructed in a factory, then shipped to the site and finished. That can save time and money compared to site-built homes. If you’re house-hunting in a hot market, you may ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Covers the future of sustainable, resilient and affordable housing. In the midst of an ongoing housing crisis, more attention is ...

Moving a wall of the home from the production area to storage, to be used later on the rail system shown, in the factory of Apex Homes, in Middleburg, Pa. on Oct. 12.Evan Angelastro for TIME Senior ...

Modular design and construction has been around for decades, yet evaluating its long-term viability for multifamily is complex. Some indicators suggest that modular is steadily gaining traction in the ...

For Module, a Pittsburgh-based manufacturing start-up that hopes to build affordable housing, the key to growth is keeping things close to home. The company designs single-family homes that are built ...

This year, Philadelphia-based modular manufacturer and construction manager Volumetric Building Companies (VBC) is on track to produce somewhere between 800,000 and 1 million sf of modules for the ...

Modular homes — which are homes built mostly off-site, then completed after being delivered — are increasingly popping up ...

One of Australia’s biggest developers has started a landmark trial building homes in record time, with Mirvac eyeing the fast modular construction business but there’s a catch. In Cobbitty, a boom ...

Housing in the D.C. area isn’t affordable, in part because there isn’t enough, but also because the cost of materials and labor is high. But a Pittsburgh company on the receiving end of a multimillion ...