Andover-based housing startup Reframe Systems announced Tuesday that it’s raised $20 million to built a series of “microfactories” to crank out modular buildings like ADUs and three-deckers.
Controlling project costs is a make-or-break proposition for multifamily developers. At Greenstaxx, it’s Julia Hansen’s job to introduce them to the company’s modular construction technology.
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As a growing number of Massachusetts communities permit construction of small infill housing models, VC-backed Andover startup Reframe Robotics sees an opening to industrialize housing production.
The Boston area’s quasi-public regional planning agency and four cities are splitting a $3 million federal grant that’s intended to lay the groundwork for luring a modular housing factory to the area.
Former MIT Vice President Israel Ruiz has raised a $4.5 million seed investment from his former employer to launch WoHo, a technology platform intended to streamline the building design and construction process.
The 28 Austin mixed-use development transformed an municipal parking lot into 68 apartments and 5,000 square feet of retail with two innovative strategies: modular construction and grassroots support.
A Montessori-inspired daycare center will occupy the entire first floor of The Rand, a condo development by Cambridge-based Urban Spaces and StoneRiver Properties.
NEI General Contracting has completed construction of 28 Austin, a 68-unit modular mixed-use development built on a former Newtonville municipal parking lot.
At the Graphic Charlestown, Berkley Investments brought together two buildings – one a new modular structure, the other an adaptive re-use of a former industrial property – in one well-received multifamily development.
Nowadays, only a handful of residences are built entirely in a factory. Many more are built with factory-built components, such as floor and roof trusses, that are delivered to the building site. But no GM or Ford Motor Co. has emerged to take the industry by storm.
Today’s pressures in design and development have led to an increased interest in more precise construction techniques.
A little over 100 years ago, Model T cars began rolling off assembly lines, and, though he didn’t invent the process, Henry Ford is often credited with mass production that made cars more affordable – to address a need.
