CHICAGO: As the debate rages about home affordability and housing supply, the modular or pre-fabricated building business is on the rise, and has the potential to provide solutions to these issues.
Recently tagged as an expanding industry that had the potential to embrace workers of the depleting automobile manufacturing industry, modular building manufacturing can provide budget friendly homes that are energy efficient and cost effective to run.
The cost savings come from the fact that modular buildings can be erected 30 to 40 per cent faster than conventional buildings because they are predominantly constructed in the factory, under cover and in one place, ready for assembly or installation on site…