{"id":147839,"date":"2025-01-30T15:40:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T15:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?post_type=ebook&#038;p=147839"},"modified":"2025-02-04T11:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T11:51:09","slug":"modular-advantage-january-february2025","status":"publish","type":"ebook","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/ebook\/modular-advantage-january-february2025\/147839\/","title":{"rendered":"Modular Advantage January\/February 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>In this issue of Modular Advantage, we\u2019re shining a light on a specific side of the industry with which I\u2019ve only recently become more familiar: shipping container construction<\/h2>\n<p>For decades, shipping containers were just functional. They protected goods, they allowed for efficient storage and transportation, and they could be reused over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>While all of this is still true, the potential of shipping containers as building components has exploded in recent years: housing, hospitality, education, retail, disaster relief\u2026you name it.<\/p>\n<p>As I continue to learn more about the possibilities of containers and about the teams that transform them, I\u2019m reminded about what makes me love this industry so much: it\u2019s the people.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, it\u2019s the people who come together to solve problems, create resources, and build better, more vibrant communities. Just like containers that together become a shopping center, a food court, a workforce camp, or a school, we as an industry are often so much more than the sum of our parts.<\/p>\n<p>Through containers, our industry can provide unique solutions that just aren\u2019t feasible using more traditional building methods. And, as the need for more diverse building options grows, container-based structures\u2014and the talented people behind them\u2014will only be more in demand.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Buongiorno vice president, Modular Division, Axis Construction Board Chairman, MBI.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk\/html5\/reader\/production\/default.aspx?pubname=&amp;edid=1eed1a16-1aa1-40f7-9a4b-d9acf9e7c137\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read the full ebook &#8216;Modular Advantage January\/February 2025&#8217; here.<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this issue of Modular Advantage, we\u2019re shining a light on a specific side of the industry with which I\u2019ve only recently become more familiar: shipping container construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":147840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"stakeholder_rel_tag":[172484],"ebook_category":[172215,172225],"ebook_tag":[172214],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-147839","1":"ebook","2":"type-ebook","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"stakeholder_rel_tag-modular-building-institute"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Modular Advantage January\/February 2025 | Construction eBooks &amp; 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