Build Ahead
The CfOC's recent briefing to the Uniform Law Commission
Blog | Oct 29, 2026
Explore CfOC’s “From Handshake to Hardware” briefing on how Configure-to-Order products can move through a registry, configurator, project ledger, and voluntary receipt-driven payment workflow. The presentation frames the legal and commercial questions around productized scope, commissioning, custody, acceptance, and payment-right records.
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CfOC on the National Mall: Notes from the 2026 Innovative Housing Showcase
Blog | Oct 23, 2026
This year, the Center for Offsite Construction (CfOC) exhibited at HUD’s 2026 Innovative Housing Showcase, with a tent on the National Mall. Our goal was simple: show visitors what it takes to make offsite construction work at scale, and start conversations with the people who can help make it happen.
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CfOC-ICC-1220: Project Prototype Update & Office Conversion Installation Schematic
Blog | Oct 19, 2026
This post shares quick updates about progress on the CfOC-ICC-1220… our standard to answer the question “How could manufactured kitchen, bathroom and utility pods connect to a building through a common, repeatable interface?”
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CfOC Joins the US TAG to ISO/TC 59 and SC 19
Blog | Sep 01, 2026
Jason Van Nest, Executive Director of the Center for Offsite Construction (CfOC), has joined the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (US TAG) to ISO/TC 59 Buildings and civil engineering works and its subcommittee SC 19 Prefabricated building. That gives CfOC a direct voice in the international standards now defining modular and prefabricated construction, at the moment they are being written.
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Two Exhibits, One Question: How Does America Build Housing Faster?
Blog | Aug 11, 2026
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has selected the Center for Offsite Construction to bring two exhibits to the 2026 Innovative Housing Showcase on the National Mall, September 22 to 24.
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CfOC Welcomes 21 Senior Research Fellows
Blog | Jul 15, 2026
he Center for Offsite Construction welcomes 21 Senior Research Fellows for the 2026–27 academic year, its largest cohort following the strongest application response in the program’s history. The new cohort more than doubles last year’s Fellows and expands CfOC expertise across construction, law, software, automation, education, and storytelling. Fellows will contribute directly to CfOC standards, digital infrastructure, legal research, education, and the Future of Design & Delivery roadmap.
The current CfOC program page likewise describes the cohort as multidisciplinary and explicitly recruits across industry, law, storytelling, software, automation, and
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Provocation Questions for Senior Research Fellow Jason Buchheit
Blog | May 29, 2026
In this Build Ahead interview, Center for Offsite Construction Executive Director Jason Van Nest speaks with Senior Research Fellow Jason Buchheit about why offsite construction must be understood as an integrated ecosystem rather than a project delivery method. Drawing on experience across architectural practice, modular high-rise delivery, fabrication coordination, AHJ review, BIM workflows, and systems education, Buchheit explains how fragmented scopes, deferred decisions, and unclear interfaces continue to limit industrialized construction. The conversation explores how Configure-to-Order thinking, standardized interfaces, shared compliance frameworks, and better relationships between project BIM and manufacturing BIM can help the built environment move toward more predictable, financeable, and scalable delivery.
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HUD Has Named the Work Ahead for Offsite Construction. Now We Need to Build the Infrastructure.
Blog | May 11, 2026
HUD’s new Action Plan for accelerating offsite construction offers one of the clearest federal statements in decades that the housing crisis is constrained by institutional barriers as much as by technology, labor, or capital. The Center for Offsite Construction sees strong alignment between HUD’s agenda and the CfOC’s ongoing work on standards, digital configuration, contracting, and market infrastructure. The next phase should move from diagnosis to implementation through targeted research grants that translate HUD’s priorities into usable tools for agencies, manufacturers, builders, designers, lenders, insurers, and public-sector housing partners.
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CfOC-ICC-1220 (v0.2): Graduating into a Navigable Standard
Blog | May 08, 2026
The Center for Offsite Construction has released a new working draft of CfOC-ICC-1220 that gives consensus committee members a clearer structure for developing repeatable interface requirements for off-site constructed products. The draft organizes the standard around three core concepts—location, clearance, and access—and introduces a sequence-neutral framework for testing, inspection, verification, and acceptance. This version marks an important milestone in connecting 1220 to the CfOC’s broader roadmap, including the CTO file type, the CTO Interface Standard, Handshake, and future interface standards such as CfOC-ICC-1230.
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A New Payment Instrument for Offsite Construction: Introducing the CTO Schedule of Values
Blog | Apr 28, 2026
The Center for Offsite Construction has released an April 2026 revision of From Handshake to Hardware, adding a new appendix on a proposed CTO Schedule of Values. The new exhibit models how offsite products can be tracked through ordering, fabrication, assembly, shipping, staging, rigging, hoisting, installation, commissioning, and staged acceptance. The update connects future standard forms of agreement to CfOC’s interface standards work and the emerging CTO file type.
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