In 2026, the intersection of the housing affordability crisis and the climate emergency has reached a tipping point. Traditional “stick-built” construction—long the standard for residential housing—is increasingly viewed as inefficient, wasteful, and prohibitively expensive. The solution is no longer found in the slow, weather-dependent chaos of a traditional job site, but in the precision of the factory floor.

The modern prefab (prefabricated) revolution is not about the “mobile homes” of the past. It is about industrialized construction (IC): a method that treats home building with the same technological rigor as aerospace engineering. By shifting construction to a controlled environment, we can finally achieve the “triple bottom line”: homes that are affordable to buy, cheap to operate, and gentle on the planet.

The Prefab Revolution: The Precision Advantage

The environmental argument for prefab starts with waste reduction. In traditional construction, roughly 10% to 15% of materials delivered to a site … READ MORE ...