Thom Amdur, the Executive Director & President of National Housing & Rehabilitation Association, joins Jeff Carroll and Doug Koch to discuss off-site construction, construction flexibility, and the future of developing affordable multifamily housing.
Tag Archives: Modular Construction
HousingThink Extra – Episode 3
An overview of the wide variety of factory-built construction technologies.
HousingThink Podcast – Episode 3
In this episode we explore the hierarchy of factory-built technology including factory-built homes and factory-built components. We also look at a news article relating to the decline of the HUD-Code manufactured housing industry.
Modular Construction in Multifamily
“While modular construction still only accounts for nearly 5 percent of all commercial construction, multifamily is the fastest-growing segment within the industry, according to research by the Modular Building Institute. In 2017, MBI found that manufacturers built a little more than 1,100 modular apartment units in the U.S. In 2018, that number more than doubled to 2,300 units.”
