Building Innovation: Who’s the 2024 Exceptional Woman in Building?
Resilience 2021: The Pandemic’s Impact on Technology in the Built Environment
Feb 23, 2025 | 6:54 AM – 6:54 AM ET
The COVID-19 crisis presented architecture, engineering and construction companies with an enormous challenge: transitioning an industry long reliant on personal relationships and in-person connections to a remote, digital environment. Like other hands-on sectors, builders and other trades can’t ply their trades over Zoom.
Report of the Results of the 2014 Off-Site Construction Industry Survey
In 2014, the National Institute of Building Sciences Off-Site Construction Council set out to get an understanding of how the construction sector is using off-site construction techniques by conducting a survey of the building industry.
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Off-Site Studies: Solid Timber Construction
Solid timber construction (STC) refers to different types of massive wood planar or frame elements used for walls, floors, roofs, partitions and core elements of a building. Construction with solid timber elements optimizes the inherent structural behavior of wood, creating a more homogeneous structural product. Several different factors make STC appropriate today.
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Building Offsite an Introduction
The following document is an introduction to Building Offsite. Funded by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES). The content was produced by an industry and academic collaboration of CCG (OSM), Stewart Milne Timber Systems, Edinburgh Napier University and Heriot Watt University in partnership with Architecture and Design Scotland (A+DS) (Figure 1). The wider UKCES project remit was to create a Scottish Offsite Construction HUB as a centre of expertise, responsible for defining and showcasing skills requirements and ensuring collaboration between professions.
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Modular Construction For Multifamily Housing
Modular multifamily housing construction can increase the development of healthy affordable housing by saving significant cost, time, and resources. This nacent market also bears risks for developers that limit it's growth and penetration. Public and private entities can assist the Factory-Built Housing sector to help project teams and development agencies realize its vast potential.
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Saving Time with Modular Bathroom Pods
Bathroom pods contribute to a cleaner and safer work environment, help reduce labor, materials, waste, and costs, and increase speed to occupancy.
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Off-site Construction Education: results of a survey of prefabrication in design and construction academics
Ryan E. Smith
Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Utah
Chair, National Institute of Building Sciences, O-site Construction Council
West Region Director, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
Kevin Grosskopf, PhD
Professor of Construction Management, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Chair, Academic Consortium of the National Institute of Building Sciences, O-site Construction Council
Jon Elliott, PhD
Assistant Professor of Construction Management, Colorado State University
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Report of the Results of the 2015 Off-Site Construction Industry Survey of Software Usage
This report compiles the results of a survey conducted by the Off-Site Construction Council (OSCC) in the summer of 2015 to identify the types, frequency of use and effectiveness of software platforms being utilized by the off-site construction sector. A total of 22 participants, with more than half representing the architecture/engineering or general manager/general contractor disciplines, responded to the survey.
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Report of the Results of the 2018 Off-Site Construction Industry Survey
This report compiles the results of a follow-up survey conducted in 2018 by the Off-Site Construction Council (OSCC) to understand how the U.S. construction sector use off-site construction techniques and technologies has changed since its initial survey in 2014. A total of 205 participants responded to the 2018 survey. The respondents came from across the building industry, representing the diverse stakeholders involved in the decision making and implementation of off-site construction.
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Chicago sure made an impression.
The National Institute of Building Sciences sent a small team to the Chicago Build Conference and Expo Sept. 19 and 20, at the McCormick Place Convention Center.
After setting up our booth (No. 755), our marketing, sales and technical staff were swamped in the best possible way.
