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Posted by usm-admin on Dec 29, 2016 in Blog |
The most remote settlement on earth isn’t on the windswept shelves of Antarctica or the barren tundra of the Arctic. It’s actually Tristan da Cunha, an island in the middle of the South Atlantic. Visiting takes roughly 40 days of travel from London, where the architect Hugh Broughton—who recently designed a health center on Tristan—is based. “Rather bizarrely, I think it may be the first project that we’ve designed and will be completed—because it’s under construction at the moment—[but that] we may not yet get to visit,” he says. It’s bizarre because Broughton’s work as an architect has taken him to some of the most inhospitable, difficult-to-access landscapes on...
Posted by usm-admin on Nov 30, 2016 in Blog |
New York—Less than two months ago, Full Stack Modular announced the purchase of FC Modular’s core assets from Forest City Ratner Cos. (FCRC). Roger Krulak, CEO & Founder at Full Stack and former senior VP of prefab construction at FCRC, explained at the time that he planned to build upon the original mission of the company he worked for, known for the rise of 461 Dean St., the tallest modular building in the world. The tower, located in Brooklyn, New York, is now ready to receive its tenants. Krulak discussed with Multi-Housing News the details of the acquisition, his new company’s goals and the perks and challenges on creating buildings...
Posted by usm-admin on Nov 14, 2016 in Blog |
The Greene Town Center (The Greene) in Beavercreek, Ohio is a mixed-use town center, featuring upscale retail, restaurants and apartments. Completed in the fall of 2008, this $40 million, 360,000sf expansion of the town center may look like others in the Steiner + Associates portfolio, but there is one unique difference. The Greene incorporates modular construction technology that makes the building process not only greener, but more profitable. Recently The Modular Building Institute (MBI) talked with Bob da Silva, Senior Vice President of Construction for Steiner + Associates as well as Matt Canterbury, Director of Business Development for M+A Architects (architect of record) about the unique advantages of modular...
Posted by usm-admin on Nov 8, 2016 in Blog |
British company Pod Space’s prefab pop-up pods add garden offices and studio escapes just about anywhere you can imagine. The sustainable modular pods are completely customizable, allowing clients to create an eco-space for an extra room, a quiet respite in the yard, or even a full service home. With options like energy saving glass, low energy heating and renewable energies like solar roofs, each Pod Space has the potential to be a personal, sustainable oasis. Streamlined and with a small footprint, Pod Space’s modular structures were designed to meet planning policy, meaning in most cases do not require a building permit when installing. With most of the construction occurring...
Posted by usm-admin on Oct 31, 2016 in Blog |
Prashant Mandal flips on a candy-bar-size LED light in the hut he shares with his wife and four children. Instantly hues of canary yellow and ocean blue—reflecting off the plastic tarps that serve as the family’s roof and walls—fill the cramped space where they sleep. Mandal, a wiry 42-year-old with a thick black beard and a lazy eye, gestures with a long finger across his possessions: a torn page from a dated Hindu calendar, a set of tin plates, a wooden box used as a chair. He shuts down the solar unit that powers the light and unplugs it piece by piece, then carries it to a tent some...
Posted by usm-admin on Oct 11, 2016 in Blog |
From early modular construction to a portfolio of homes based in the Midwest, we take a look at the prefab residences designed by America’s most famous architect. If you were plotting a Frank Lloyd Wright tour of American architecture, the 2700 block of West Burnham Street in Milwaukee might not make your itinerary. But on this quiet street, you can find evidence of the architect’s career-long obsession with creating affordable, sometimes prefabricated, housing for the masses. The only grouping of Frank Lloyd Wright’s early American System-Built Homes—built by Arthur Richards and designed with standardized components for mass appeal to moderate-income families—is situated in the Burnham Park neighborhood in Milwaukee,...
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