In a media release that included MHLivingNews, GIA has announced their recent findings that manufactured, modular and other forms of prefabricated home building are growing more popular. This confirms the 5 year trend that manufactured home shipments (read, new home sales) have been growing steadily
The prefabricated building market is expected to grow at a CAGR of over 8% during the period 2019-2025.
The global construction industry posted its slowest pace of growth in a decade in 2019, dropping to 2.6%, according to data and analytics company GlobalData.
Until now, autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) was widely used in the construction industry mainly as a relatively simple (commodity) wall building material. The need and regulatory pressure for green, energy neutral buildings for residential housing and nonresidential constructions is becoming strong
Picking the right siding for your house is a delicate balancing act between good looks, durability, maintenance, and affordability. With wood, vinyl, stone, brick, or stucco, you might get only two or three of these. But with fiber cement siding, a resilient mix of wood pulp and portland cement, you
When someone thinks about how a house is built, images of bustling, noisy and dusty construction sites spring to mind.Our hunger for new buildings and internal space has an impact on the planet. A recent report from the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction, International Energy Agency and
In Australia’s capital cities in particular over the last 30 years or so, the speed in which commercial, civil, governmental and high-density residential buildings are completed has increased dramatically.Everywhere you look, skylines are being transformed by the ‘sudden’ appearance of new buildings
Campbell’s projects ground to a halt as South Africa went into lockdown on 27 March 2020 and several clients cancelled future projects due to budget reviews.With 80% of his sales pipeline stuck in tender processes that had come to a standstill and the applied-for government assistance to see 4Ways E
Most of us spend a large chunk of our lives in one building or another, but have you ever stopped to consider the greenhouse gases linked to the construction of these buildings?One way to reduce greenhouse gases is the use of recycled and more environmentally friendly building materials.The United N
What are prefabricated houses?