For years, Place Properties developed its apartments the traditional way: find a site, bring in the materials and use crews to build it from the ground up. But Place CEO Cecil Phillips is now all-in ...

In November, the world got its first glimpse of a modular housing prototype from Skender, a Chicago-based construction firm. The module was remarkably complete. It included a kitchen, a bathroom, a ...

Chicago-based general contractors Skender are getting into the modular manufacturing game, with an announcement that they will be building a factory on Chicago’s southwest side that can crank out ...

Modular and panelized construction is trending up for residential and commercial builds. We talked with three companies seeing increased demand for their products and services. Factory prefab can ...

As Chicago grapples with an affordable housing crisis and soaring construction costs, one company is betting on modular buildings to help solve the crisis. Next week, Chicago-based construction firm ...

Predicting Our Future is a podcast about the next revolutions in technology, as seen through the eyes of a serial entrepreneur. Below is an edited excerpt from "NYC Goes Modular," the fourth episode ...

The Minneapolis City Council on Thursday is expected to approve a $2 million loan for a modular-housing manufacturing plant planned for the North Loop. Devean George, an Augsburg University graduate ...

A Chicago company claims to have a unique answer to the city’s affordable housing shortage: modular homes. In a giant warehouse on the Southwest Side, the construction company Skender will begin ...