In a fast-moving and competitive market, technical excellence alone is not enough. Businesses also need credibility, connections and influence. MPBA membership delivers all three. Chief executive Jackie Maginnis discusses why membership matters.
As the international trade association for modular construction, the Modular Building Institute's mission is to expand the use of offsite construction through innovation and education.
Insulation specialists Actis have emphasised the need for increased offsite-construction and bringing more young people into the construction sector to deliver the Government's planning reforms.
Featuring 1,500 attendees and dozens of the industry’s most impactful speakers from across North America and around the globe, World of Modular will offer key insights, best practices, and numerous opportunities to meet leaders and stakeholders from every corner of commercial modular construction industry.
For more than 80 years, the Modular & Portable Building Association (MPBA) has spearheaded volumetric modular growth across the commercial construction sectors. Here, Richard Hipkiss, development director for the MPBA, makes a case for modern methods of construction in pushing up productivity.
Housebuilders must look for practical solutions such as hybrid built homes as the industry faces hefty housebuilding targets, tight budgets and programmes, and the need for sustainability.
Dr Dáithí Downey, author of Boosting Ireland’s Housing Supply: Modern Methods of Construction and Paul Tierney, CEO of MMC Ireland, examine the report’s findings...
PBC Today sat down with MBI's European membership director Alan Milne, to discuss the inaugural World of Modular Europe event and how modular construction is becoming an industry staple.
Ireland’s Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage, in cooperation with the Department of Enterprise, Trade & Employment, has secured and awarded €5m to Construct Innovate’s research to support affordable, better quality, safer and more sustainable housing
With the UK government’s housing targets setting an ambitious tone, we are responding to the sector’s growing need for sustainable, efficient construction methods by hosting a series of CPD webinars on hybrid and offsite solutions.
Robert Hairstans, the director of the Centre for Advanced Timber Technologies (CATT) at the New Model Institute of Technology and Engineering (NMITE), discusses how timber in the construction industry will help achieve UK Government goals for more homes and reduced emissions.
Download our White Paper, titled “Cellular Glass Insulation as a Non-combustible Solution for Inverted Roofs,” for an in-depth analysis of the benefits and technical specifications of FOAMGLAS® INVATHERM™.
Robotics and intelligent automation can reshape modular construction, and contribute to solving the global housing shortage, writes Gilles Retsin, co-founder and chief technology officer/chief architect at Automated Architecture.
With photovoltaic modules, CONTAINEX modules can now also be used as a green energy source for the first time. This and other energy-saving equipment options ensure greater sustainability and energy efficiency on construction sites.
The construction sector remains vital to the British economy. Against the backdrop of a changing political landscape, Jackie Maginnis, chief executive of the Modular & Portable Building Association (MPBA), considers the wider implications of slowing or even stalling the delivery of public projects
