So many industries require their workforce to be in hot spaces — inside and outside. During the summer months, work across the United States, especially in the South, can be brutal. Indoors, facilities can be sweatboxes. Outdoors, temperatures s…

Already, 2024 has brought some surprising news in the offsite building or modular arena. As Gary Fleisher, the guru behind the Modular Home Coach blog reported, Veev was purchased by Lennar and there’s a pending lawsuit as well as financial diffi…

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, in its 2022 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report, said that roughly 582,500 people experienced homelessness on any given night in 2022. If you’re in an urban area (from San Francisco to Miami…

On Wednesday, June 21, 2023, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced in a press release a research grant opportunity to study offsite construction and land use reforms. The “notice of funding opportunity” (NOFO) is to…

In August of 2022, the International Code Council (ICC) released a “Primer on Off-Site Construction, Codes, Standards, and Compliance,” a document that detailed the various codes and standards for a variety of modular construction types. No matte…