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Reaching Modular’s Potential to Significantly Increase Housing

Stuart Emmons
Principal
Emmons Design

Modular multi-family housing has made great headway in the last five years, but we need to continue to make improvements that will further streamline modular housing production to better reach modular’s potential to address our growing housing crisis. Let’s get far more people living on our streets into stable long-term housing. Let’s get more affordable housing built. Let’s get more market-rate workforce housing built. Emmons will discuss case studies in California, Oregon, and Georgia; learning from past projects and manufacturers; optimal integrated teams; standardized dwelling units; reducing modular housing production time, better homeless housing options for people experiencing homelessness; the importance of technical and aesthetic design as a foundation for successful projects; details that will streamline production; and optimal public & private initiatives to increase housing.

Why Offsite Construction Isn't Solving Our Housing Crisis

Jim Dunn
President
Stack Modular

Offsite construction is not a perfect solution to every project, but when there is a match, the benefits can be significant--especially for developers. Join modular manufacturer Jim Dunn, president of Stack Modular, as he discusses the winning modular project profile, the path to success in the modular pre-construction phase, and the importance of involving all the key players early-on when executing any modular project.

Necessity Breeds Innovation

Rick Murdock
CEO & Co-Founder
Autovol

The world's most pressing problem is our call to action to collaborate and innovate. An “us and them” mentality won’t solve today’s housing crisis. Unprecedented shortages in skilled labor and housing call for both conventional and modular companies to collaborate and innovate. There's plenty of work to go around. Working together, we can innovate better ways to automate, standardize, develop new materials, and benefit from the many time-proven methods we rely on. Forty-plus-year veteran Rick Murdock shares some ideas based on recent successes bringing together people and robots, as well as offsite and onsite methods.

Advancing Modular Construction: A Case for Standardization

Randall Thompson
Senior Pre-construction Manager
NibbiPrefab

Within the AEC industry, we need to overcome the mindset that standardization equates to constrained design and diminished quality. On the contrary, a standardized design practice will lead to a more intentional, better coordinated and enhanced product outcome. Furthermore, developing standardized building elements will allow for and capitalize on innovations in industrialized construction. Join Randall Thompson, senior preconstruction manager at NibbiPrefab, for this insightful presentation as well as lessons learned from a traditional general contractor that is successfully utilizing offsite construction.