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Tiny home on Amazon goes viral, sells out

May 19, 2019 10:00AM

The Amazon effect has come to the tiny home market. A kit to build a small studio-style cabin sold out almost instantly after its post on the e-commerce giant went viral. The maker of...

Marriott to build the tallest modular hotel in the world in NoMad

by Erin Hudson | April 18, 2019 05:15PM

UPDATE, Monday, August 5, 2019: The next chapter in the arms race to build the tallest hotel using modular...

City issues first affordable housing RFP requiring modular construction

by Kathryn Brenzel | May 24, 2018 10:00AM

The city’s requests for proposals often come with affordable housing requirements, but this one has a rare proviso: The...

Stop, hammer time: Q&A with NYC construction boss Anthony Rinaldi

by Kathryn Brenzel | October 31, 2017 08:00AM

The world’s tallest modular hotel, according to its builder, is also the “worst nightmare” for union construction companies. “Modular...

City’s hospitals turn to modular construction as they spend billions updating facilities

June 26, 2017 08:30AM

As the region’s healthcare institutions spend billions to modernize and expand their facilities, hospitals in the city are turning...

Are oversized Lego blocks the building material of the future?

January 14, 2017 11:30AM

TRD WEEKEND EDITION

NYC lost its one its only modular home manufactures at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 2016. Still, modular building...

CitizenM developing pre-fab hotel on the Bowery

January 09, 2017 08:16AM

Hotel developer and operator citizenM is planning the 20-story, 300-room project at 185 Bowery. A Dutch company constructed the...

California developer might use shipping containers for
low-income housing

December 26, 2016 10:00AM

California developer John Sobrato spent decades building offices for Silicon Valley tech giants. These days the billionaire businessman wants...

Forest City sells modular division

by Rich Bockmann | October 05, 2016 07:18PM

Forest City Ratner sold off its modular-building business to a former vice president at the firm, ending the developer’s brief and largely unsuccessful experiment with the prefab initiative.

Capsys modules come to life as “Lego Building” in Bronx

February 25, 2016 06:00PM

Could it be that modular construction is the grown-up version of playing with Legos? Before the shuttering of its Brooklyn...