“The lack of adequate housing and the shortage of skilled labor, coupled with chronic cost and schedule overruns, are leading more people toward this process,” said Tom Hardiman, executive director of the Modular Building Institute, in a statement about the survey.
The Dodge report said health care, hotel, multifamily and dormitory projects lend themselves to modular and prefab work.
Using modular construction for hotel projects works well, as there is a high demand for new developments but a shortage of skilled labor for those projects.
