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Modular Advantage Magazine

In each bi-monthly issue, Modular Advantage explores a specific modular construction topic and features interviews and articles from industry experts along with news and updates from the Modular Building Institute and its members, modular building case studies, and upcoming industry events. This construction trade magazine is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in commercial modular construction.

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Latest Articles & Interviews

Falcon Structures: Thinking Inside the Box

Some of Falcon’s latest projects include creating container solutions for New York’s Central Park and an East Coast professional baseball team. More and more, Falcon is shipping out container bathrooms and locker rooms to improve traditionally difficult work environments, like those in oil and gas or construction.

UrbanBloc—From Passion to Industry Leader

UrbanBloc specializes in three main categories or markets – what they call “Phase 0” projects, amenities, and urban infill. Clients are often attracted to shipping containers because from a real estate perspective they are considered an asset. Having the flexibility to move and transport these assets allows owners to respond to different circumstances in a fluid manner that they can’t get with standard construction.

The Hospitality Game-Changer

“Hospitality is about more than just providing a service – it’s about delivering an experience,” says Anthony Halsch, CEO of ROXBOX. “And that’s where containers thrive. They allow us to create spaces that are unique, efficient, and sustainable.”

Current Issue

From high-end retail to trendy urban developments to critical workforce amenities, shipping containers are being used to create some of the most innovative buildings around. Featuring interviews with some of the industry's leading manufacturers, this issue of Modular Advantage takes a deep dive into the dynamic and quickly-growing world of shipping container structures to see how the industry has evolved and to preview what's next.

Featured Modular Building Case Studies

Castlegar Student Housing, Selkirk College

Modular construction was chosen as the ideal solution to provide high-quality, fast-track affordable housing for students, delivering a 3-storey, 30-module, 114-student bed building with a mass-timber main common
area for student amenities.

Manchester Public Schools Temporary Classroom Space

The buildings can accommodate up to 1,000 students during construction of permanent buildings, allowing education to proceed without interruption. The modern and fully equipped modular learning spaces ensure a smooth transition for both students and staff.

Oldivai on 31st – Modular Housing, Rinse and Repeat

With a “kit-of-parts” approach, Oldivai on 31st demonstrated how a predesigned layout could deliver consistent programming and rapid deployment.

Hawthorn Extended Stay by Wyndham—Jackson, WY

The plan was to build the project in two phases. This would enable the property to open sooner and start
accommodating guests while completing the second phase. The digital twin was designed to provide a complete factory-ready model for both phases upfront. That gave the factory everything it needed to bring each phase into production quickly. It also enabled everyone a way to plan both
phases ahead of time, and begin prepping the site in advance.

Online Exclusives

DORÇE Navigates Mountainous Terrain, Extreme Weather to Help Rebuild Türkiye

True Modular Building Seeks to Revolutionize Housing. It’s Next Stop: MBI’s World of Modular Europe

The Digitalization of Offsite Construction: Trends & Best Practices to be Featured at World of Modular Europe

World of Modular Europe to Bring Industry Insights, Expertise to Brussels

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Past Articles

Andrés Felipe Becerra Ceballos, Head of R&D, Constructora Bolívar

Seeing the Potential for Modular Construction in Colombia

Founded in 1983, Constructora Bolivar specializes in the design, construction, project management, and sales of single family and multi-residential homes across the Colombian social strata. Now it’s laying the groundwork for the country’s modular construction industry.

Anirban Basu, CEO of Sage Policy Group and Chief Economist of the Modular Building Institute

Modular Building Poised for Takeoff Globally

That modular building hasn’t already gained more U.S. market share is a source of bewilderment to many. Though the technology has been around for more than 70 years, modular building in the U.S. has never gained as solid a foothold as it has in other societies. But it’s time may finally be here.

A New Off-Site Standard in the Works: Energy Efficiency, Water Conservation and MEP Systems

If owner/developers start by thinking offsite construction is simply traditional construction with a factory, they have it backwards. Here’s the correct way to start.

Five Policies States Can Implement to Address Housing Needs

If owner/developers start by thinking offsite construction is simply traditional construction with a factory, they have it backwards. Here’s the correct way to start.

Proposed Davis-Bacon Updates: A Deliberate Attack on the Modular Construction Industry

Modular construction is growing in popularity because it offers several advantages over traditional construction. Here’s how it works.

The Key to Adaptable Smart Buildings is Less Construction, More Assembly

If owner/developers start by thinking offsite construction is simply traditional construction with a factory, they have it backwards. Here’s the correct way to start.

Ralph Tavares: Family, Business, and Beaches

Modular construction is growing in popularity because it offers several advantages over traditional construction. Here’s how it works.

Hacking Construction and Making it Greener at BOXY

Born and raised in Louisiana, young brothers, Mateo and Tiago Atwi, are eager to — as they put it — “hack the construction industry” by overcoming obstacles in creative, non-standard ways in order to achieve surprising results.

Inside-Out Modular Design-Thinking

Modular design-thinking respects that buildings change over time, says Bobby Vance of ModularDesign+. “When I design for modular construction, I design the inside first and then grow that outwards into the overall building.”

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