This session marked a turning point in how modular construction can scale—through standardized interfaces and a shared path to Configure-to-Order (CTO) delivery. With new agreements in place between CfOC, ICC, and Good Developments Group, the groundwork is being laid for a true marketplace of interoperable modular products. The discussion made clear: building that future will require new standards, new partnerships, and a new kind of collaboration across the industry.
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Attendees both praised and challenged the CfOC’s comprehensive approach to curriculum design, especially its alignment with the full real estate development value chain—from entitlement to financing to site operations. Many called for near-term offerings to bridge the gap while the Master of Offsite Design & Delivery program is developed, noting that the industry urgently needs leaders who think across silos. Across the board, there was strong enthusiasm for a new kind of systems-savvy professional—one who blends design, manufacturing, and business fluency to shape the future of modular delivery
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Many offsite firms that trekked to Arizona last week are stuck wondering how to better kit and assemble their own scope, in their own shop, within their own risk envelope. The landscape of tomorrow's smaller, more productive construction industry is a different collection of risk envelopes. Vast rewards await firms that crack-the-code to combine trade work into larger building components with industrialized construction (manufacturing) methods.
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The Center for Offsite Construction (CfOC) in the School of Architecture & Design at the New York Institute of Technology is proud to announce that Mathew Ford and Jason Van Nest have been named track chairs for the upcoming Advancing Prefabrication 2025 conference, set to take place February 17-20 in Phoenix, Arizona. As two of the industry's leading voices in prefabrication and offsite construction, their leadership at this conference underscores the CfOC’s commitment to advancing modular methodologies, digital workflows, and regulatory innovations that will transform the built environment.
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