It’s only the second week of January and already news of offsite and modular factories going from the drawing board to reality are sprouting up. I’m thinking 2022 is the year offsite construction begins making huge inroads into all types of construction.
On Thursday, Plant Prefab executives held a small groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the future factory, which will one day employ around 440 people.
Inside a new 270,000-square-foot factory, the components of new homes will be manufactured each day. The factory’s owner, Plant Prefab Inc., hopes the factory will pave the way for a cleaner and cheaper model for home construction.
“We’re focused on building extremely sustainable, healthy, high-quality homes, much more efficiently,” said Plant Prefab CEO Steve Glenn. “For those of us who care about climate change, we’ve got to build buildings in a more efficient way, from an energy perspective, water perspective and resource perspective.”
Plant Prefab’s $30 million factory will use automation to construct prefabricated homes with 30 percent less waste than traditional construction in 20 percent to 50 percent less time. In addition, the company claims its homes cost up to 25 percent less than ones in traditional markets.
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