Developers and New York City are building homes in factories and propping them up on vacant lots in the outer boroughs. Proponents say it can significantly cut down on construction time—and create ...

The model unit at Carmel Place, New York City's first micro-unit building, which used modular construction. Photo by Max Touhey for Curbed Robby Kullman, manager of Capsys Corp., is not about to ...

Construction began on more homes in Philadelphia in 2004 than in any other year in the last three decades. But even in the city’s best year for residential building, data compiled by Econsult Corp. of ...

As Forest City’s modular work on its B2 building nears the finish line at Pacific Park, the company is looking to the future of its ambitious modular construction division. And things aren’t looking ...

New York’s modular dream is, albeit in fit and starts, coming true. The increasingly popular process of modular construction involves fabricating structural components — a k a modules — in a factory, ...

Nearly four years after floating the possibility, the city Department of Parks and Recreation is preparing for a trial run of prefabricated, kiosk-like bathrooms that cost a fraction of the ...