ORLANDO, FL — Prefabrication has become the name of the game in mechanical contracting. Nothing particularly new there—unless we’re talking who, besides the installing contractor, might actually be ...

For companies ready to make a jump into off-site fabrication and Building Information Modeling (BIM), it may be helpful to understand what’s ahead in your journey: How many FTEs (full-time equivalents ...

Leaders of the Construction Users Roundtable say they want to push designers and contractors to use more sophisticated methods of prefabrication and modular construction techniques to cut the time and ...

Prefabrication in construction is a very broad topic. As such, it covers many different areas. Regardless of how much prefab work you are doing, where you are doing it, or who is doing it, the one ...

This month the cost and research departments of Mott Green & Wall and Davis Langdon & Everest examine the benefits of the specification of pre-assembled and pre-fabricated building services ...

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The scheduled replacement of a heating system integral to a natural gas offtake in Wales has been delivered with a significant cost reduction thanks to an innovative design by Flexenergy and the ...

The U.S. faces serious construction challenges, including a labor shortage of more than a half-million people. Meanwhile, costs continue to rise, hobbling progress on many projects. Ryan Ware, ...

Prefab can improve margins — but only with the right planning, logistics and digital tools. Learn the common mistakes that ...

One approach that has gained significant traction in meeting all three goals is modular and prefabricated construction, a ...

The Shaw Group has begun construction on its pipe prefabrication facility in the United Arab Emirates. The 300,000-square-foot facility, which will be completed in 2011, builds on Shaw's existing pipe ...